THE Hauraki Plains Gazette. With which is incorporated THE OHINEMURI GAZETTE. Motto Public Service. MONDAY, WEDNESDAY, & FRIDAY. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 11, 1926. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVII, Issue 5012, 11 August 1926, Page 2

THE Hauraki Plains Gazette. With which is incorporated THE OHINEMURI GAZETTE. Motto Public Service. MONDAY, WEDNESDAY, & FRIDAY. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 11, 1926. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Writing of the trip down to Ohakune the manager of the Thames Valley Rugby touring team says: "We ran into a snowstorm gQ/ing over the WaimarinO Plains, and this wa,s the first snow many of the team had seen. Ot course, when we reached the summit they had a snowball fight, which was good fun until Pe.acocke got a showbair down his back. Somebody lodged it there, and then his side gave

According to the Minister °!f Railways, when presenting his annual statement to Parliament on Thursday afternoon, three hundred fiveroomed houses, were cut at Frahkto'n Junction factory during the year, a,nd of these 251 have been erected.

At Monday niight’s meeting of the, Paeroa Rugby Uni'Ojn Mr R. Hodspn wrote resigning his seat on the committee. -Several members spokes in eulogistic terms of the willing and valuable services rendered by Mr Hodson in the interests of football. The secretary was instructed to wait on Mr Hodson with a request that he reconsider his resignation.

A claim for £2OO for injuries sustained —a fractured leg and a sprained ankle—while- using the slide in the ‘‘Fun Factory,” came before Magistrate Bartholomew at Dunedin yesterday, when George Sidford, aceejuntapt, Wellington, sued the Exhibition Company. The magistrate held that the defendants s'hoiwed lack of due care and were negligent in the construction of the device. The construction of the slide wa,s such that persons were projected with considerable velocity on to a canvas mattress, with a drop that varied at times from six inches to thirteen inches, and this drop created a danger of sliders’ legs being doubled beneath them. Judgment was for plaintiff for the ’full ajnount claimed.

The report of the N.Z. Co-operative Dairy Co. states that touring the year Supreme Court actions cost the company £2762 0s 2d, made up as follows : John I; Fox case, £ll7l 6s ; English ami Luxferd case, £603 12s; legal costs in connection wiith the actions, and also that brought by S. Lye, £987 2s 2d.

“My summing up of the whole situation is that for a man who has to earn his own living in any capacity New Zealand is 'far and away the better country to live in. If he has great wealth, and money is no object, then there is no better country to live in than England, for there no door will be s,hut to him.” This view wa.sl expressed by Mr G. S. Amos, who/ for seven years was the London buyer for the firm of Ross and Glenidining, Ltd., and has now returned to> Wellington to set up in business on hisl own account.

Owing to the absence of the school dental officer on Government business the Ngatea school dental clinic has not been open since Monday. However, as the number of patients arriving ’for treatment s.eems tb average about three a week, it is probable that little inconvenience will, be caused.’ A meeting of representatives of School committees will be held at Ngatea on Saturday.

Every shed a show plant where Wallace Milking Machines are installed. Our fitters are experts.*

A' start has been made with- the erectiejn of the new theatre in Normanby Road. Mr W.‘ W. Scott, of Hamilton, is the contractor, but the tender price ha,s not yet been disclosed.

The Dominion conference of the New* Zealand Farmers’ Unon on Wednesday last unanimously passed the following remit: “That the New Zealand Farmers’ Union dotes not entertain the idea of the Daylight Saving Bill, and enters -a, protest against the Bill being brought before Parliament.”

The latest arrest to be made in Paeroa since the reopening of hotels is a 5-gallon keg of beer. Shortly a);te.r 5 o’clock last evening the local constable was to be seen half dragging, half carrying, a sack containing the beverage across one of .the main streets on the way to the pdlice station. Presently a prominent townsman happened along in his motorcar a,nd assisted the constable with his "prisoner.” The story of the keg is to be unfolded at the Magistrate’s Court at Paeroa on Monday next.

In the British House of Commons. Mr A. M. Samuel, Secretary, Overseas Tiade Department, said the total amount of the guarantiees to the British Empire Exhibition was £2,108,556 A call of 15s in the £ had been made on the guarantors, and he was informed by the liquidators that less than 1 per cent, of the amount remained to be collected.

Definite figures regarding the number of operations taking place in public hospitals during the year 1925 are given by the Government Statistician in the latest Abstract of Statistics. These show that operations, were performed in no fewer th an 25,063 of the '51,387 cases dealt with in public hospitals duriing the year.

The nurses of New Zealand have contributed funds for a bell in the Memorial Carilloon, to be erected in Wellington. The bell is to be rung on October 23 every year in memory those New Zealand nuress who lost their lives- in the Marquette.

The article that appeared in this paper last week relative to the employment of electrically driven pumps as an adjunct to flood-gates in removing water from farm lands on the Haura,ki Plains has, in the words, of several settlers from various/ parts of the district, “set the cocky thinking.” The heavy downpour of last week caused much inundation, but the Puhanga island block was kept quite dry by means or the pump.

Some much-needed light was thrown on the proper procedure at •meetings in connection with resolutions,, in committee, at Monday's Thames Hospital Board meeting, by Mr J. W. Danby, who, at the request of the Press representatives! present, asked the board to define its policy in such matters. The request was occasioned by the chairman formally •moving, on .the resumption of standing orders, “that the resolutions passed in committee be tonfirmed.” The Press reporters, who do not listen to discussion in committee, were, thus in the dark as, to what wias being confirmed. It was ultimately tacitly agreed, on the suggestion of Messrs Danby, Walton, and Kennedy, that, in future, resolutions passed in committee. be again read on confirmation in open meeting.

Dalgety and Co., Ltd., have received a cable from their Dctadon office, dated August 9, advising that there has been more inquiry for butter since the. last cable. Prices! were 2s higher—l74!si. There was also moire iihquiry for cheese, white being quoted at 86s to 88s, and coloured 81s, to 83s.

. The. Ngatea Tennis Club will short-, ly be-registered as an incorporated society. A meeting of members •to 'sign a requisition to that effect was held last avenins.