THE Hauraki Plains Gazette. With which is incorporated THE OHINEMURI GAZETTE. Motto Public Service. MONDAY, WEDNESDAY, & FRIDAY. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1926. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVII, Issue 5027, 15 September 1926, Page 2

THE Hauraki Plains Gazette. With which is incorporated THE OHINEMURI GAZETTE. Motto Public Service. MONDAY, WEDNESDAY, & FRIDAY. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1926. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The induction of the Rev. R. A. Forde is to take place a.t St. Paul’s Church, PaerOa, to-morrow evening at 7.30 o’clock.

“The kitchen is now a. distinct credit to the btfard,” reported Mr J. W. Danby at Monday’s meeting of the Thames Hospital Board. “The cockroach nuisance has been largely 'minimised with the a.id of various applications of Paris green.”

During May and June, last lectures in first aid were given .to the girls of the Ngatea District High Sfchool by Dr. E. R. Lange., of Tuura. Early in July five of the scholars sa,t for the St. John’s Ambulance Association certificate for first-aid. ' The oral portion was conducted by Dr. Liggins, of Thames, whi>e the written, papers were received from Auckland. Intimation has now been received that Misses Hazel Dale, Mavis. Beaver, Norma Elliot, and Vera Spencer have passed the examination.

The Paeroa. Public Library now has the Children’s Encyclopaedia complete in ten volumes.. It is available fl ee to any child wishing to 1 , look over it during library hours by asking the librarian for it and. returning when finished.

On the morning bf August 11 William George Haines, builder, of Ricca.rton Road, Christchurch, left home suddenly. Since then nothing hasbeen seen or heard of him. He left a message saying he, intended toi go to Sumner, and that he intended to take his own life. Bf this had been done his body almost certainly would have been found. He gave no other reason for his sudden disappearance.

The Railway Department brings under notice in our advertising .column the running of a special guaranteed train from Te Arotha to Thames and return.on Saturday next, in connection with the I’ootball match Thames v. Piako. A restaurant in a North Island centre which does- a great trade as a schoolboy “tuckshop” has devised a good w’ay of keeping business brisk. Now and again half-price days are instituted, but not until the customers enter the shop are they aware that half-price day, permitting double the return tor the same money, is at hand. Thus, there is always an atmosphere, of pleasant uncertainty. A pile of bicycles parked in front of the premises testifies to the popularity achieved.