THE Hauraki Plains Gazette With which is incorporated THE OHINEMURI GAZETTE. Motto Public Service. MONDAY, WEDNESDAY, & FRIDAY. WEDNESDAY, JULY 14, 1926. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVII, Issue 5000, 14 July 1926, Page 2

THE Hauraki Plains Gazette With which is incorporated THE OHINEMURI GAZETTE. Motto Public Service. MONDAY, WEDNESDAY, & FRIDAY. WEDNESDAY, JULY 14, 1926. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Amongst the new companies which have been registered in Auckland this week is Ohinemuri Hotels, Ltd, capital £50,000 divided into' £1 sharesShareholders : Alfred Seymour Bankart, Brian Lifford Hewitt,. Oliver Nicholson, Conrad Robinson, Henry Cochra.ne McCoy, Albert Ernest Bollard, Williajn Blomfield.

The first temporary pile in connection with the erection of. the Hauraki bridge over the Waihou' River atKopu was driven yesterday afternoon.

The expenses incurred in conducting the last general election .amounted to £26,326, and those of the triennial licensing poll were £13,379. The respective votes last year were £25,000 and £l2 000. The preparation and printing of rolls cost £415,074', the vote being £45,000. <

It is estimated by the annua) report of the Internal Affairs Department that the big tourist steamer Carinthia and her passengers disbursed in New Zealand during her three days’ stay £20,000. This inr eludes stores, harbour dues, rail, and accommodation expenses.

According to the annual -report of the Internal Affairs Department 289 notifications, df deaths of returned soldiers were received last year, of which number 91 were accepted', as war graves. The total deaths in New Zealand of ipembers of the Expeditionary Force number 3480, of which 2113 are deemed to be war grave;*' The headstone contractors haye completed to date 1046 headstones.

Considerable discussion took place at the Farmers’ Union meeting at Ngatea' on Thursday evening in regard to the place of meeting on account of the unsuitableness! of the Public Hall during the winter mbinths for tlia,t purpose. However, no other place was available, ajid discussion wandered to the recent action of the Hall Committee in holding up the provision of urgently needed facilities for patrons. The committee’s actions were criticised as over cautious and demonstrative of a lack of faith in the district. One speaker s’ajd that Nga.tea was dying a natural death owing to the apathy of its residents. Other .places were going ahead or making an effort in that direction and Ngatea wa.s not keeping pace. Turua was providing a big hall, and would get the big functions, and Kerepeehi wa,s striving for and would get the representative football matches.

In one New Zealand town the postmen who clear the street pillar boxes noticed that there, were often se’veral stones among the letters, papers, etc. says an exchange. This was ascribed to playful children until a postman saw a man drop a stone into one off the boxes. “ What are you doing that for ?” said the amazed postman- “ Well,’ sa.id the man, ■“ I drop a stone in to see if I am in time for the mail. If it hits the botttom of the box I know you have been ajid cleared it* If the stone lands on something sofft I know I am in time.”

Wallace Milking Machines are used and recommended by up-to-date' Dairy Farmers because they give satisfaction.*

As an indication of, the force of the, wind a,t Paeroa, during the recent gale a wireless mast' composed of 25ft of %in galvanised piping mounted on a 15ft pol e , and situated at St. Paul’s vicaragef’ Arney Street, was bent nearly double.

Mr P. J. Jennings, of the Gaiety Theatre, Paeroa, has received ward that he is the successful tenderer for the picture screening rights at the Hikutaia Public Hall for a term of two years. During the past three years this right has been held; by Mr J. Henderson, Waihi. .

Two houses near Turua were unroofed by the gale on Sunday last, and dozens of small sheds, fowlhouses, etc., were blown over. Portion of the roof of a comparatively new house near Gumtown Road, and recently occupied by Mr R. H. Cameron, county inspector, was blown aw,ay, and the rooif was blown off a house on the Turua-Orongo road occupied by Mr H. Markham; . ,

A festival week to he terminated by a queen carnival of large proportions was the scheme decided upon to raise funds towards '.he erectioi of public baths for Gisborne at a meeting of representatives of the various local bodies. It was.stated that at Hawe.ra a queen carnival held recently resulted in £3OOO being raised, and a similar function at Pajiiatua. produced a profit of £l5OO.

The concrete road in Turua was been used for many purposes. For a year or so it was used as a dumping ground for roafl metal. Yesterday it was used as a. dryjng ■ place for a . large quantity of chaff which had become wet when .the flood-water entered a business firm’s store-room.

At Te Aroha on Wednesday evening 50 members of the Te Aroha Ca.dets assembled at the. Drill Hall to bid fa.rewell to Sergt.-Major A!.-Stew-ard, who has been transferred to the head office of the Hauarki Regiment at Paeroa. Oh behalf of all present Sergt. N. Corcoran expressed the regret felt at the departure of Sergt.Major Steward, and. spoke* in eulogistic terms of his good work during the two years he ha,d been stationed in Te Aroha, as drill instructor In asking Sergt.-Major Steward to accept a box of cigars as a. small token of appreciation of his services the speaker referred totheextraordinarj good feeling which i existed' between the Te Aroha Cadets and their drill instructor, and oh behajf of, the. Cadets wished him health and prosperity in his new sphere.

On account of the abnormal tide and the gale df last week-end the Waihou River overflowed its banks at Turua, flooding ' the townshipThere were eighteen inches of water in the bakehouse.

A petition, signe.d by thirty service and private car drivers, was presented to the last meeting of the Tauranga County Council asking the council to take immediate steps to out a stop to reckless driving by a certain individual.

During the recent flood about Turua the need for big outlet drains was amply illustrated, a.s also was the efficiency of the big' drains that were in operation. > The Te Kauri outlet, . which is 17ft wide at the top, was practically full and. .running like a ; mill-race. Despite this, there was less than, three inches in the water levels inside and outside the floodgate.

“Meet Minister to-morrow. —Campbell.” This wire was the cause of a hasty meeting of the Wanganui Chamber of Commerce, arrangements for the reception of the distinguished visitor being immediately put in hand. Not tor some time did it dawn on the members tha.t they had misunderstood a telegram from Mr Ewen Campbell, who, with Mr W. Brown, was in Wellington to make representations to the Prime Minister on various subjects. The Prime Minister’s secretary is also a Campbell, and this coincidence coloured the delusion-

“Turn again, Whittington!” Historical records recently revealed in the Tower prove’ that Dick Whittington’s object in returning ytis to ?&ek his fortune at the second night of the Sports Queen’s Colossal Euchre, Tourney in the Druids’ Hall. Tonight’s (Wednesday) six prizes include 501 b flour, 2 sacks of drawing-room clock, 251 b flour, suitcase, hair brushes, shaving mirror, razor.- Your chance to be in the running for new £l6 Gramophone and Records as points prize over three nights.*

A big gang of Harbour Board workmen was employed at Turua yesterday repairing flood arid gale; damage to the wharf. -The landing-stage pontoon wa : s repla/ced and the approaches strengthened.

The Rev. J- A'. Rybum, Presbyterian minister a,t Tie Aroha, ha,s received a call to Elthaim, and it is likely that he will accetyt it.

• According ; to a correspondent there is a lesson for the present-day in the Biblical injui iction against the eating of the flesh, of swine—a ’lesson, he suggests, tin at might ba marked in connection v r ith the fight against cancer. But iu edical evidence does not bear out tib is theory. The sad fact is that caw ice.r knows no limit. It is liable tssi attack any nation, any race, a.t anij ’ time, and most certainly it knows use > creed. Statistics are. Tiot available fr i regard to Buddhists and Mohamir/ffld ans, but doctors say that cancer tes. no more respect for Jew than it Fij is for Gentile. Just what effect (ff any) modern foods and methods of their preparation have, in stimulating- cancer has yet to be discovered. Meanwhile, doctors declare that it is u nwise to assume that any methods of. opposing disease that were efficacious two- thousand years ago are hecesssarily applicable to-day.

Every s’hcd a show plant where Wallace Milkiihg Machines are installed. Oiur 1 fitters are', experts.*

First aid for coughs, coldp, and influenza. Wood’s Gre at Peppermint Cure.