THE Hauraki Plains Gazette. With which is incorporated THE OHINEMURI GAZETTE. Motto Public Service. MONDAY, WEDNESDAY, & FRIDAY. FRIDAY, AUGUST 13, 1926. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVII, Issue 5013, 13 August 1926, Page 2

THE Hauraki Plains Gazette. With which is incorporated THE OHINEMURI GAZETTE. Motto Public Service. MONDAY, WEDNESDAY, & FRIDAY. FRIDAY, AUGUST 13, 1926. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The wardens of St. Paul’s Church, Paeroa, have, received advice, per radiogram, to the effect tha,t the Rev. 11. A. Forde, who; was expected to arrive at Paeroa on Tuesday next, is not a passenger on the Niagara, due at Auckland on Monday.

Three building permits, to the value df £355, were granted at last night’s meeting df the local Borough Council.

New book's to the value of £3O 8s 6'd .Were purchased for the Ohinemuri Public Library during the past twelve months. The expenditure bin newspapers and magazines was. £l3 6s sd. Members’ subscriptions, Government subsidy, and donations, totalled 71 12s 6d.

The Minister of Finance has given Authority to borrow £lOOO from the Bank of New Zealand by hypothecating the debentures to be issued in respect of the sewerage loan of the Paeroa Borough Council.

Following a lengthy report to the Plains County Council yesterday by its inspector relative to the accident that happened on the Waitekaruru road recently in which a small boy was struck by a motor-car, the council decided to ask the schoolmaster at Waitakaruru to impress upon pupils the folly of' acting on the roads as alleged by the drivers of cars.

A challenge football shield of interest is on display in Mr G. Fallon’s window, Belmont Road. Presented to Lciyal Waitekauri, and Golden Gross Lodge, Waikino, by Mr J. N. Jesney, the trophy is for competition between football teams of financial members representing Oddfellows’ Lodges cif Netherton, Paeroa, Karangahake, Waikino and Waihi. The shield is of oak, having as, a centrepiece a finely executed silver engraved smaller shield on a raised oak base. Twelve smaller silver shields, a model football in stained oak, and the silver letters M.U.O,F, on a raised oak baton at the top of the. trophy, complete a handsome piece of work. It is the. intention of the local Oddfellows-’ Lodge to challenge for this coveted trophy later in the season.

Out of 68 applicants M'r A. C. Burgess, chief accounts clerk in the Auckland Public Trust Office, has been appointed accountant to the Waikajo Hospital Board.

In 'future the Walhou River bridge between Orongo and Kirikiri will be known by the Plains County a,s the Hauraki Bridge. This- name was selected by the. people of Thames, and was adopted by the Plains County Council at its meeting yesterday.

A return tabled at last night’s meeting of the Paeroa Borctagh. Council showed that the revenue in the district fund account received during July totalled £761 6s 9cl, and. expenditure £474 13s lOd. The credit balance in the account amounted to £2117 12s 8(1. Cre.dit balances w’ere s.hown in the domain improvements loan account df £lB 10s lid ; cbJuDieit chambers loan account, £157 2s 3d ; and street improvememnts loan account, £7BB 10s 7d. The following accounts, showed debit balances : Sewerage Idan, £34 16s ; house se.w’erage connections Iqan, £l4l 2s 4d ; water improvements loan. £l7 5s 9d.

The Railway Department advises in this issue particulars of special passenger trains, which will run between MorrinsviUe and Thames in connection with the football match MorrinsviUe v. Thames) at Thames to-moirow.