THE Hauraki Plains Gazette With which is incorporated THE OHINEMURI GAZETTE. Motto Public Service. MONDAY, WEDNESDAY, & FRIDAY. MONDAY, AUGUST 16, 1926. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVII, Issue 5014, 16 August 1926, Page 2

THE Hauraki Plains Gazette With which is incorporated THE OHINEMURI GAZETTE. Motto Public Service. MONDAY, WEDNESDAY, & FRIDAY. MONDAY, AUGUST 16, 1926. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

At the local Police Cbwrt on Saturday morning, before Mr W. Marshall, J.P., a first offender was charged with being found drunk in Hill Street, Paeroa, on Friday morning last. There was no appearance of defendant, who was convicted and Ordered to forfeit £l, the amount of his bail.

•The Thames Valley touring team is due back at Te Araha about mid-day to-morrow. In view of the match against North Auckland at Te Aroiha on Wednesday afternoon it is not proposed to disband the team until after that match.

Stormy weather conditions prevail- ( ed locally during the week-end, and the ■ ground has become thclroughly saturated. Fortunately the weather was fine on Saturday afternobn, but hea.vy rain fell during the evening and yesterday morning. During the afternoon a mild north-westerly breeze sprang up, and there Was a space of several hours, without rain.

This morning at tne Paeroa District High School, during the interval, Mr J. E. Bigelow took the pipportunity on behalf of the staff of congratulating the headmaster, Mr G. H. Taylor, upon his election to the position of vicepresident pf the Auckland .branch of the New Zealand Educational. Institute. He stated that Mr Taylor had rendered yeoman service to teachers' in the past as secretary of the Auckland branch, and they looked forward toj seeing him president in the next year or two.

A reminder is given of the Anglican Social, which is. to be held in the Gaiety Theatre to-.morrow evening. Good euchre prizes are offered for competition, and good music is assured.

“With an area less than that of the Auckland province, Denmark has 320 daily newspapers with a., circulation of 1,100,000' and 750 weekly and monthly technical periodicals,” said Professor Riddet, Professor of Agriculture. at Auckland University, in an address to farmers at Matangi on Wednesday evening. “In fact, the Danes know more about New Zealand than colonials know of it themselves.” added the professor.

A wire from Wellington of interest to motorists : “Overland Six completed seven days’ and nights’ non-stop run. Official figures total 3300 miles ; benzine showed average 24.1 miles gallon, oil 13 pints, equal 2030 miles gallon. Car airrived Wellington 3.30 this, afternoon, still running average road speed last trip nearly 30 miles hour.” Hayward Bros., Agents.*

While wild animals atta’ched to a circus were being unloaded from a 'railway siding at Orange, 200 miles west of Sydney, on Thursday, a lioness thrust her paw through the bars of her cage and seized the arm of a boy named Patrick Bourke. Bystanders beat the animal back, but only after the boy’s arm had been terribly mangled.

A large, party of domestics, sailing by the lolnic, was farowelled by the 1-1 igh Commissioner and Lady Parr on Friday. The domestics are in charge of Miss'Dale, the oldest of the welfare, officers, who is making her fifty-sixth trip prior to her retirement.