THE Hauraki Plains Gazette which is incorporated THE OHINEMURI GAZETTE. Motto Public Service. MONDAY, WEDNESDAY, & FRIDAY. FRIDAY, JULY 9, 1926. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVII, Issue 4998, 9 July 1926, Page 2

THE Hauraki Plains Gazette which is incorporated THE OHINEMURI GAZETTE. Motto Public Service. MONDAY, WEDNESDAY, & FRIDAY. FRIDAY, JULY 9, 1926. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Financial Statement, which was presented to Parliament by the Minister of Finance (the ( Hon. WDownie Stewart) yesterday, discloses tha,t the gross Public Debt at March 31, .1926, was £238,855,478, as compared with £227,814,647 ■ twelve months previously, making an increase of £11,040,831. Included in the new .loans rajsed during the year were Waihou and -Ohinemuri Rivers Improvement Scheme £69,000', Hauraki Plains Settlement £70,000, and swamp drainage £35,000.

After several very heavy frosts, light rain fell locally bn Wednesday night and yesterday morning. Later in the day the sun broke through the clouds and fine weather prevailed. The air is much milder, and is almost like spring.

Supporters of . Rugby football in Kerepeehi propose" to organise a function in tile near future to publicly present the Terrill school competition cup to the boys of the- school. Messrs W. Thompson and Nicholson ha,ve promised to present an enlarged photograph of the team to the school, and for the purpose of having this photgraph taken the, boys may be taken for a long motor ride.

Captain Roald Amundsen, the Arctic explorer, intends shortly, to pay a flying visit to New Zealand (says the Poverty Bay Herald). While in the Dominion Captain Amundsen will also visit his many relatives; among whom are Mr Carl August Amundsen, Invercargill; Mr Oscar O. Amundsen, .-Kawa Kawa, . Bay of, Islands; Mr Albert Amundsen, Gisborne ; and Mr •A. Amundsen, Lower Hutt.

“'Do you dance or play euchre ?” M Yes, both.” Then you will be a,ble to enjoy yourself and do both at the second of the Blue Queen’s Euchres and dapces in the Soldiers’ Club on Tuesday night. Best prizes ever offered. Gentlemen 2s 6d, ladies a basket and Is*

The executive committee of the Ngatea Public Hall Society at a fully attended meeting on Saturday evening rescinded the motion carried at. the previous meeting on the chairman’s casting vote shelving the question of the provision of an improved dressing-room for ladies, and appointed a ’ cominiittee comprising Messrs G. T. Da.vidson, C. W, Schultz, and C, S, McJTaggart to decide what improvements should be made and report .to the August meeting. T(ie question cf whether the hall should provide cups and saucers (or use at dances was deferred until the next meeting. - It was decided that the Plains Rugby Union should be charged 12s 6d per night for the use of the hall for meetings and 10s Tor Saturday afternoons when the visiting representative teams used it while; changing their clothes.

Inlter-club football will be carried on during the next two Saturdays on the Haui’aki Plains after a break of five weeks. Ngatea seniors and juniors will play at Patetohga, apd the Kerepeehi juniors will play at Turua; The Kerepeehi club is unable to place a senior team in the field as so many players left the district wh&n the Ldnds Department reduced hands for the winter months. The Turua seniors propose -to play Coromandel at Coromandel, and a t s United Coast cannot put out a tepm Waitakaruru will not have a game.

Separators of all -ma,kes can be fitted with a Pye Patent Pulley. Saves trouble, eliminates jar or shock.* -

The third hotel to open its doors for the sale of spiritous liquors and the accommodation df the public at Paeroa was-'the Paeroa, Hotel yesterday morning, Promptly at 9 o’clock the doors were swung open, but there was no thirsty crowd waiting outside, as was the case in other instances last Thursday week. During the day a large number of people drifted into the building for the purpose of congratuating the proprietor, Mr E. W. G. Smith, and wishing him good luck. Needless to say, the good wishes were always tangibly recognised.. Among the first citizens to visit the premises were the proprietors of the two other hotels in the town.

The young man, George Arthur Prindle, who appeared before Mr JH. Salmon, S.M., at Paeroa on June 28 upon a'charge of theft a,t Maramarua, and was remanded at Thames Gaol until July 7, was escorted to Mercer by Constable McClinchy on Wednesday. Appearing before the Court there, accused pleaded guilty and was committed to the Supreme Court, Auckland.

Writing from Sydney on July 1, Mr J. W. Cathro advised Mr W. M, Sorensen, Paeroa, that .the two local racehorses Eh Timi and Scat stood the journey across the Tasman well, and arrived in good fettle. The horses were almost immediately put into active training, and have turned out satisfactorily. The..latest advice Mr Sorenson has received is that both Eh Timi and Scat have been nominated'for the six furlong and mile races to be run -a,t Moorfield Park, near Sydney, to-morrow. Good wishes for success are extended to the enterprising owners, Messrs Sorensen and P. Corbett.

Doctor’s expenses will be allowed to anyone who comes to the Sports Queen’s Wharepoa Dancft and Euchre on Monday night and is not satisfied with the champagne of entertainment on our menu. Ten euchre prizes, dainty supper. Ladies Is, gentlemen 2s. Bus leaves Raffill’s 6-45 p.m,- Return fare Is.* ' /

A novel method of.' raising money .was suggested and *agree.d to at the meeting 'of Waihi citizens held last week in connection with the. lapnching of a campaign to raise funds fpr the district hospital, x It is by means 'of what are known as “vanishing teas,” and. the method is simplicity itself. - Here it is : One lady invites six friends to an afternoon or evening and collects, one shilling from each one fjor the fund. Each of them in turn-invite, five, and in each case these also collect, ones shilling from each guest. These in turn invite four, the four invite three, the. three invite two, a,nd .the two one friend each. By this means, if the chain is not broken, the, sum of £97 16s will be collected for the hospital.

The Ohinemuri Licensing Bench received rather an unusual application at its last sitting in the shape of a letter asking for the position of barman at any of the hotels under, the jurisdiction 'of the committee. The application was handed to the clerk with a request that it be forwarded to the proper quarter. Previous to 'the first sitting of the coipmittee anxious inquiries were made at iW'aihi a,s to whether the committee would insist on the introduction of threepenny beers!

Mr E. Smith has been appointed to referee the Paeroa B v. Junior Representatives match at Paeroa on Saturday. Mr J. Buchan is to control the Birch Cup game, Thames v. Pa'.eroa, at Thames.

' Colossal Euchre? Tourney first night’s prizes: ; Ladies, first Mrs Laird, second Miss Moore, third Miss Rush ; gentlemen, first Mr Gibb, second Mr Stajlard, third Mr Robbin. •1001 b of flour donated to Sports Queen will be "added to euchre prizes over second apd third nights l .*

The Mayor of Waihi announced at the monthly meeting of the Borough Council that he had received from Mr A. M. Samuel, M.P, for Ohinemuri, an intimation that ’the Government had consented to make a further grant of £340 towards the of the Waihi Beach roa'd conditionally upon the council undertaking to expend a similar amount, bn the work. The expenditure of £6BO would. His Worship remarked, go a long way towards completing the road, and pro-, vided the council could manage to find room for a f|ew of the unemployed on the job there was reason to hope that an application for more Government assistance would be. favourably considered.

On a recent Saturday a Wanganui resident Jiad occasion to visit a little town in the King Country south o'f, Ohakune and there he' noticed more thap usual activity. Making inquiries, he ascertained that there was to be a, football match that afternoon, north playing the south side of the river ’for a trophy of thirty gallons of beer. Spectators had gathered from all quarters, and there were enough horses tethered in the. viciinity of, the playing area to form several mounted rifle corps. Needless to stAte, also there were great expectations among the spectators on the side lines as to who would share in the honours with the winning side..

More than ordinary interest will be attached to this week’s issue of the “Nev/ Zealand Sporting and Dramatic Review” with its exclusive display of up-to-date illustrations. Outstanding features are the “1926 All Blacks,’ •whose individual portraits occupy two full pages, arranged in striking fashion. Special attention will be turned to. the hockey match, Indian Army v. Auckland, and apother series of great interest to hookey fans comprises the competing teams at the Auckland ladies’ tournament. The centre pages; depict “Babe Ruth,” king of American baseballers, polo exponents, open air dancing, and latest London topics. Pictures from the Society of Arts Exhibition are reproduced in an attractive style. The Hamilton Operatic Society’s presentation of “The Runaway Girl” makes a dainty page, while fashions, stage, and film have an attractive showing-

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