THE Hauraki Plains Gazette With which is incorporated THE OHINEMURI GAZETTE. Motto Public Service. MONDAY, WEDNESDAY, & FRIDAY. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1926. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVII, Issue 5030, 22 September 1926, Page 2

THE Hauraki Plains Gazette With which is incorporated THE OHINEMURI GAZETTE. Motto Public Service. MONDAY, WEDNESDAY, & FRIDAY. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1926. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A first offender was charged with drunkenness- before Mr P. E’. B-renan, J.P., at the local Police Court this morning. There was no appearance of defendant. Constable McClinchy stated .that the defendant' ha ( d been drinking throughout the day and was found in a drunken state sitting in a local Justice’s motor-car about 5.30 p.m., and he refused to get out when requested to do so. Defendant was arrested and later released on bail. A conviction wa.s entered and the amount of the bail‘£l, was-forfeited.

Through the removal of the Rev. J. Ryburn to Eltham a vacancy has occurred in the charge of the Presbyterian Church at Te Aroha. The Rev. John Lowden, of Paeroa, has; been appointed interim-moderator by the Presbytery Of Waikato, and will preach the charge vacant on Sunday, October 3. The Rev. John Enwright, from Sydney, will occupy the pulpit of the Paeroa Presbyterian Church that day.

A young man named Edward A. Cheffings-, aged 20 years, labourer, Waitoki, appeared before Me,ssrs. W. Marshall and B. Gwilliam, J’s.P., at the’ Paeroh, Police Court yesterday, charged with committing an alleged unnatural offence at Waitoki. .Two charges of committing grossly indecent acts on the Paeroa-Te Aroha Rofed near also preferred again.st accused. ' A remand was granted until September 28, bail being allowed in one surety of £lOO.

The overhead bridge for pedestrian traffic across the railway line at Hill Street is now completed and open for traffic. In future anyone 'found crossing the rails other than by means of tW bridge will be prosecuted by the department.

Miss Statham, inspector of soldiers’ graves, states) that 1100 headstone's, ha.ve been erected over soldiers’ graves in the North Island alone, and others are being erected every week. At present, she says, the department is occupied with war graves only, that is, of men who died from injuries received at the. war or from its effects.

. A good storysdf a Maori’s first ride in a train was told at a meeting of returned soldiers- (says, the latest issue of the New Zealand Railways Magazine). It happened at the Auckland end of the line, and the Maori entered the train with much trepidation, especially as the carriage was near the engine, which was blowing off steam. He was not a,t all happy as the train accelerated speed and as it dashed into a. tunnel all sorts of weird mutterings were heard proceeding from the corner where he sat. Just as, suddenly the train dashed once more into daylight, evidently to the great astonishment of the Maori, who looked round with an amazed expression on his face and remarked, “Py gorry, to-taorrow !”

Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure. For Coughs apd Colds never fails.