THE Hauraki Plains Gazette. With which is incorporated THE OHINEMURI GAZETTE. Motto Public Service. MONDAY, WEDNESDAY, & FRIDAY. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 25, 1926. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVII, Issue 5018, 25 August 1926, Page 2

THE Hauraki Plains Gazette. With which is incorporated THE OHINEMURI GAZETTE. Motto Public Service. MONDAY, WEDNESDAY, & FRIDAY. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 25, 1926. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The death occurred in a chemist’s shop in Victoria Street, Hamilton, yesterday afternoon, of Andrew Michell Alexander, aged 28 years, the son of Mr and Mrs Robert Alexander, of Hillcrest, Cambridge Road. He was noticed by a constable to be: unwell, and was taken to the shop, where he died in a few minutes. A doctor certified that death was due to heart failure.

The vote, for Waihou and Ohinemuri rivers improvement under the Public Works Department Administration this year amounts to £64,000, as against a vote of £70,000' and an expenditure of £47.908 the previous,year.

Representations have been made by the people of Waitakaruru to have the Auckland mail; sent by the daily service car instead of by train to Pae•roa, bus to Ngatea, and bus the following day to Waitakaruru. A reply has been received that the matter is receiving iconsideratioh.

A pupil of the Paeroa District High School, W. L. Marshall, a son of Mr W. Marshall, Mh.yor of Paeroa, has received notice that he has passed successfully the , Civil Service Entrance Examination, which was. held at Thames early last month. , Young Marshall gained 11th place in order of merit in. the Auckand province and 25th place for the. Dominion.

Following a couple of white frosts, the weather locally has taken a turn for the better, and the days have been fine and sunshiny. Up to the present the.re has not b.een a marked increase in the growth of pastures, and feed ■for stock is, still fairly scarcei However, with the advent of finer weather there should be a rapid growth of spring feed.

According to> a return presented to Parliament, 37,103 assisted immigrants have entered the Dominion during the past five years. Of. that number 25,739 ha,ve settled in th® North Island and 11,384 in the South Island.

A defendant in a maintenance case which came before Mr J. SI. Barton, ■S.M., at the Magistrate’s Court at “Hawera/laSit week asked concerning the position of those to whom he owed money. “No creditor has any claim on yon until you have supported your children,” replied the magistrate, who proceeded to say that children did not a&k to be born, and were a first charge upon those who should support them.

Two old meh who- have resided within the confines of the comparatively small town of Ashburton for the past forty and forty-two years-respect-ively met recently for the first time. Prior to that each was unaware, of the existence of the other. They were introduced in a public institution the other day, and each cast a look of almost unbelief at the other until a tew minutes’ conversation in reminiscent strain convinced them that their respective claims to long residence in the town were justified. One of the bld gentlemen explained that he had been in the employ of a firm in the town for the las,t twenty years, while the other stated that forty-two years ago he had entered business on his own account in one of the suburbs, and had retired only of recent years.

Separators of all majkes can be fitted with a Pye Patent Pulley. Saves trouble, eliminates jar or shock.*

Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure. For Coughs a,nd Colds never fails.

Working in the interests, of the Paeroa Beautifying Society, Messrs R. Waddingham and Argali, and a num--ler of Puks residents, spent a busy time last week-end. The energies of the party were confined to Taylor’s Avenue, where over sixty holes were dug and the ground prepared ready for the planting of the Japanese cherry trees alternatively with Japanese maples. 'As soon as the trees corns to hand the society will be glad of the assistance of public-spirited people who will lie prepared .to plant out th® trees ami erect, suitable guards to protect them. Donations of trees, or their value in cash would also be thankfully received.

The total expenditure by the Public Works Department on the Waihi-Tau-ranga section of the East Coast railway to 31s,t March last was £694,732, and the estimated amount required for its completion is £310,000. These two amounts make £1,004,732, and as the section is, about 38 miles long the completed cost will, be upwards of £26,000 per mile.

A special meeting Of, the Hauraki Plains County Council will) be held to-morrow for the purpose of considering the county main reading scheme and the rates for the present year.

Mrs Jane Erwin, ofi Regent Street, Waihi, is now' in the district hospital in a serious condition as the result oif severe wounds in the .throat. She was discovered by her 15-year-old daughter lying across a copper in the backyard with deep gashes in her throat, a razor being subsequently found near by.

At Monday night’s meeting of the Pa,eroia Rugby Union committee a resolution of sympathy with Mr J. W. Silcock, manager of the Thames Valley Rugby touring team, in his illness was carried, and- good wishes were expressed for his speedy return to health and strength.

The six settlers, whose land fi'onts Orchard East Road pn the northern side, have decided to instal a drainwater pump at the outlet of the roadside drain near the Power Board’s depot. The machine will be the same size as the one now installed on the other side of the road, and is being obtained from Greymouth, where it has, been used in goljd sluicing. The cost of the pump landed is- not expected to exceed £25. For the two pumps the Power Board is having a transformer erected near the Ngatea bridge.

Trifles, sometimes appear important. It was stated last week in a contemporary that the winning £4OOO ticket in the recent Independance Art Union was sold to a New Plymouth tobacconist. „ Later the Taranaki News received a telephone inessage to thp effect jihat the winriifig number, 10131, was. sold by Mrs, Leslie, ot Inglewood. It was also stated over the telephonp that tho two adjoining numbers, 10130 and 10132 were held, alsp, by Inglewood residents. The luck Of Mr‘Hunter appears to continue. At the queen carnival he won a big cake, his wife won two boxes of chocolates, and in the evening Mr Hunter Won the biggest box of chocolates that had been offered as a prize. It has been remarked that unto him that hath shall be given; the chocolates, however, must look like very smlal fry in comparison with the £4o'oo Independence fish that Mr Hunter landed. —Exchange.

The vote for the Immigration Department is £275,000, as compared with £200,085 voted and £107,521' expended last. year. Administratipn and' genera,! expenses in Elngland and New Zealand have been provided for by a vote of £15,57.5, and £lOOO is set aside, as the amount required to cover the, cos,t of bashing British Treasury note&j for immigrants, arriving in the Dominion. Passage money fdr immigrants ik estimated to absorb £538,000, and £12,000 is expected to be de-, voted to refunds of passage money.

Subject to the approval of the shareholders the directors of New Zealand Milk Products, Limited, have arranged for the sale of the undertaking and ass.ets of the company to a new company for £160,000. The capital of the new company will be £60,000, divided into 60,000 shares o® £1 each.

During the. las,t financial year there were 360 applications -to enter the railway services, as apprentices.' Of these 129 were appointed. The number of working days lost by permanent and casual members df the second division of the railway service through sickness and accident during 1925 was : Through illness,' 54,399 ; through injury, 78,834.

Declaring that he had had the bicycle given him by, a "dirty boy,” a ten-year-old lad appeared at .the Children’s Court at Christchur.ch last Week to answer a charge of theft in respect to a bicycle valued at £l7 10s. He said that he met a boy on the street and the boy had offered him the machine, and he had accepted it. ■ Evidence was given by the police to the effect that the chief-detective had seen the accused’s father scraping the enamel from the bicycle. “Someone stole this bicycle,” said Mr H. Y. Widdowson, S.M., who presided, “but the evidence is insufficient to say who did.” The case was dismissed.

From the first of, next month the, provisions of the Act, 1923, and its amendment's, will apply to all employers and apprentices in an industry in the district, whether bound by an a,ward or industrial agreement relating to the industry on not, and to all apprentices and apprenticeship contracts. The object of the Arbitration Court order making this provision is to apply *he Apprentices Act to those employers at present outside the scope of the Act:

The total departmental vote for salaries, etc., is £136,246. Included in the vote is an item of £16,000 for travelling expenses, and transfer expenses of officerst.

First aid for coughs, coldp, and Influenza. Wood’s Great Peppermint Cure.