THE Hauraki Plains Gazette With which is incorporated THE OHINEMURI GAZETTE. Motto Public Service. MONDAY, WEDNESDAY, & FRIDAY. FRIDAY, JULY 30, 1926. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVII, Issue 5007, 30 July 1926, Page 2

THE Hauraki Plains Gazette With which is incorporated THE OHINEMURI GAZETTE. Motto Public Service. MONDAY, WEDNESDAY, & FRIDAY. FRIDAY, JULY 30, 1926. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

e Following on the wet weather that prevailed locally during the earlier part of the week, the la,st couple of days have been sunshiny and springlike. Yesterday morning there: were five degrees of frost registered, and the ground was very white. Good progress is being made with the erection of new premises in Princes Street for the Ohinejnuri Club. "Denmark uses, five tons of manure to the hundred .acres, while New Zealand. uses 12%cwt. Is it any wonder ,thia,t New Zealand dairymen are frightened of that little country’s competition ?” asked Mr McCullough at the farm school at Masterton. , The owner, Mr W. M- Sorensen, Paeroa, has,- received advice that the local horse Eh Tirni has been nominated for the, Warwick Farm meeting; near Sydney, which is to take place to-morrow. It is highly probable that the grey will start in the Varroville Handicap, six furlongs, and also the Macquarriq Grove Handicap, one mile. Luck appears no,t to have been with the two local houses since their arrival in Australia. Eh Timi has received bad starts in the races in which he competed 'a,nd finished well ba'ck. Should |he hun into place money to-morrow it is probable that he will be taken to Queensland to compete at a couple 0® meetings’ in that State. Information has been received that Mr P. Corbettfsi Scat has been suffering with a bruised foot for some time, and as a consequence has done little hard work. Fifty years ago this month (July 11) the late Sir George Grey asked in Parliament for a week’s delay to enable, him to miqke up his mind as to which constituency he should represent!—Thames or Auckland City West. The request was! granted, and later Sir George intimated his intention ill! standing for Thames. One-tenth of the Dominion’s population is connected with the Civil Service and is therefore concerned, with unproductive employment,” remarked Mr A. Hobson, president of the Napier Chamber of Commerce at the last meeting, “ and it is an important matter to consider.” Natural gas at Castle'cliff was known to settlers in the Wanganui district 60 years, ago, Young people riding along the beach below the cliffs frequently applied matches to this gas, which could be detected by an oily substance flowing on tof the beach. The Canterbury branch of the Royal Colonial Institute s,ent a cable message to London offering hospitality in Christchurch to members of the Imperial Parliamentary delegation which will pass through New Zealand, en route to the annual meeting of the British Empire Parliamentary Association in Australia. A reply lias been received to the effect that the delegation will spend only 24 hourp, in New Zealand and will visit no place in the Dominion except Auckland. . For Influenza Colds take Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure.

Tte-day marks the 59th anniversary of the proclamation of the Thames goldfields, in the eyar 1867.

Commenting on the North v. South football match at Paeroa on Saturday last the Te Aroha News says: “A thing that came in for a good deal of unfavourable ’comment was the fact that no oranges were provided for the players at half-time. , It may have been an oversight on the part of the Paeroa officials, but it is, something that should never occur.”

The surface of Normanby Road is in a particularly rough condition at present.. A few weeks ago the potholes in this street were filled with metal, and although a certain amount of blinding was done at the time, the motor vehicular traffic has scattered the metal in all directions and the large, sharp stones are proving a menace to cyclists? tyres.

\.Good progress is being made with the re-erection of the Royal Mail Hotel at the. corner of Belmont Road and Wharf Street. The whole of the concrete foundations have been put down and the steel reinforcing placed in position ready fbr the outside walls. This morning a number of carpenters were engaged erecting a protective hoarding alotag the 1 street frontages of the site. It is expected that the biulding will be completed in about five months,’ time.

Many of the local public have freely expressed the.opinion that they were thankful the queen carnival had at last terminated, it being generally agreed that the contest was too drawn out, and that the object for which the. money was raised did not warrant s,uch a drain on the purses of the citizens. It is understood that the public will be. expected to contribute still further, if only to the extent of paying a charge for admission to witness the coronation of the successful queen in about a months’ time. ’ Considering that the result of the carnival ex'ceeded expectations and that the monetary gain is more than sufficient to meet the needs of the purpose fbr which It was colle'cted, it might fie suggested that if it is desired to have a crowning ceremony the public should be invited to attend free ot charge, i.n recognition of the liberal support accorded the carnival. .

Seven lions, which the owner, Mrs Baker, had vainly endeavoured to dispose of, were destroyed this week at the Maijawatu Agricultural and Pastoral Association’s ground, where the animals had been housed since the Winter Show. Various Zoo authorities and private individuals had been approached with a view to purchase, but negotiations proved fruitless.. The cost of feeding and bedding the seven animals entailed an outlay over £5 a week, and as the Agricultural Association was anxious to be relieved Gfi the responsibility of having them on its property Mrs Baker had no option but to destroy them.

The strength df the New Zealand Police Force is now 1070, ,an increase o.f? 64 during the year. In his annual report Superintendent Wohlmann, referring to the Auckland police district, states that the authorised strength on March 31 last was 203 of all ranks. In addition, there were two matrons, three, district constables, and one surgeon. The offences return for the year ended December 31, 1925, shows a total of 8544 offences reported, as. compared with 6637 in the previous year. The increase of 1907 offences, equal toi an increase: of 28.5 per cent, over the previous year, is large. It is chiefly due to the increase of population.

New Zealand admirers of R. W. (Dick) McGregor, “All Black” of 1901-3-4, who died and was buried in Sidney, have perpetuated' his memory. On Sunday week, at the Metropolitan Cemetery at Rockwood, a, memorial tablet was unveiled, and members of the visiting New Zealand team paid a tribute to one of their best known predecessors. The memorial, erected at the instigation of the Thames Old Boys’ Association —McGregor’s old club—was unveiled by C. Porter, captain of the visiting team.

Literally saved “by the hair ot her head,” was the experierice of Miss Davidson, the Australian lady wh<N a few weeks ago, met with a serious accident at Mount Cbolk by falling over a precipice when returning from a walk to Red Lake. Uncut tresses, sometimes have their advantages over bobbed and shingled locks. But for her long hair (of which she has an abundance) Miss Davidson would not be alive to-day, for it was through her hair becoming entangled in the vegetation growing pin the steep slope down which, she foil that her progress was sufficiently impeded to save her from complete destruction. As it was she fell 200’ft, but her fall would have been much greater only for her long hair. There wak not a part of her body whi'ch was not black from bruises caused by the fall, and some bones were also broken. Miss. D.avidson is now a cheerful patient in the Fairlie Public Hospital, and is making good progress towards recovery, though it will be some little time Vet before shd will be ablq. to be about again. Her mother, whose home is in Australia, is at present living in Fairlie, and is thus able to be with her daughter during part of every day.

This week’s issue of the “N.Z. Sporting and Drama.tiic Review” can be highly recommended 'for its general merit and attractiveness. Football devotees will keenly scan the snapshots taken at the All Blacks v. N.S.W, test, the departure of the Maori team, .and numerous other portraits in connection with this popular ga;me. An outstanding feature is a splendid group of veteran athletes in Auckland which will recall early memories. The- Gisborne Amateur Society’s produ'etion of “Miss Hook of Holland” is given pride of place in two full pages of illustrations. The miscellaneous divisibhi comprises many items, of local interest. First aid for coughs, coldp; and influenza. Wood’s Great Peppermint Cure.