THE Hauraki Plains Gazette With which is incorporated THE OHINEMURI GAZETTE. Motto Public Service. MONDAY, WEDNESDAY, & FRIDAY. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1926. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVII, Issue 5037, 8 October 1926, Page 2

THE Hauraki Plains Gazette With which is incorporated THE OHINEMURI GAZETTE. Motto Public Service. MONDAY, WEDNESDAY, & FRIDAY. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1926. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Owing to the difficulty and expense of assembling the players the Thames Valley primary schools match which was to have been played at the local domain to-morrow has been abandoned. The senior match West v. Netliei'ton has. been postponed on account of the difficulty of getting enough players in the field at this time of the year.

To enable engagements to be kept, the Rev. W. W- Averill, vicar of Hauraki Plains, will preach at St. Paul’s Church, Paeroa, at 9 o’clock on Sunday morning. Parishioners are advised that this will be the last opportunity of having the services of a clergyman until after Synod concludes in about three weeks’ time. -

There are now approximately 14,000 milking machines in New Zealand, milking 620,000 cows, and the milking machine has dispensed with much of the drudgery and child labour which obtained previously.

It is an interesting edmparison: Over 10,000 people were prosecuted in New Zealand last year for breaches, of traffic regulations. For the same period the London Metropolitan Police area, with a congested population of six times that of Ne,w Zealand, accounted for 13,924 convictions for the same offences. This proves one of two facts: That the New Zealand people are a very foolhardy and reckless lot or our regulationfe are ridden to death by the authorities responsible for them.

About half of a consignment of 25,0'00 trout fry which were being sent from the Government hatchery at Rotorua to be liberated in the Whangarei district died at the Auckland railway station at an early hour dn Tuesdaj’ morning. The fry were contained in large cans and were left on the platform overnight to await the departure of the Whangarei express in the morning. The fry were apparently in their usual condition at 2 h..m., but at 3.30 a.m. about half of them were dead. They are extremely delicate, and it is presumed their death was due to the length of their journey and the fact that they had been in the close confinement of the carust for so long.

A possible site is being surveyed near the Kerepeehi cro!s,s-roads for the. Public Works Department’s substation on the Bonibay-Waikino electric power line. From this point the Thames Valley Power Board will be able to draw its electricity for the Hauraki Plains in the event of a fault developing on a,ny of the other feeder lines.

Wood’s Great Pennermint Cure. For Influenza Colds take

•Mr A. M. Samuel, M.P., who accompanied the Minister of Public Works to Awaiti and Netherton, was in Paeroa yesterday afternoon. Mr Samuel left for Waihi las.t night, and will be there until to’-morrow, when he will proceed to Te Aroha to take part in the unveiling of the memorial to the late Sir W. Herries.

The promoters of the Hauraki Plains A. and P. Association’s art union, the proceeds of which are to be utilised to remove the, mortgage on the showground at Kerepeehi, are hlanguine of the result. As there, is still a steady demand for tickets; the date of closing has been extended three weeks. When this was granted the Minister of Internal Affairs stipulated that the drawing was to be done on November 3. It will probably not be possible to get all the returns! in within a week and a postponement of the date of drawing may be necessary.

Numbers of people from all parts, of the Plains visited Ngate-a, on Sunday last to see the drain-water pump near the bridge in action, but they were disappointed. On Saturday it was working, but after being stopped during the milking time on Sunday morning, in accordance with the agreement with the Power Board, it could not be started. A very big eel and a small piece, of board blocked the foot valve open, so the pump could not be primed, while the depth of water prevented the obstruction being removed.

A meeting of creditors, in the bankrupt estate of Harold Edwin George, a farmer' of North Canterbury, was called at Christchurcrh, but lapsed for want of a quorum. The financial statement showed that bankrupt’s total debts amounted to £BOBB 13s sd, all of which were unsecured. There were no assets. The principal unsecured creditor was the New Zealand Farmers’ Co-operative Association of Canterbury, Ltd., for £BOOO.

During the last six years, says Colonel Mitchell, of Wellington, New Zealand has accumulated a ictefei of £24,00'0,000 in its national trading account, so great has beeni the imports in relation to the exports. We had not felt the “pinch” because we had borrowed £28,000,000, but that was not sound finance, and unless, measures were taken to curb national extravagance, as could be done by centralisation of shipping, the country must suffer.

A return tabled at yesterday’^'meeting of the Ohinemuri County Council showed that during last month 48 cows, 31 heifers and steers, 158 sheep, 1 lamb, 2 calves, and 5 pigs were slaughtered at the local abattoiirs. The fees for September totalled £4B 2s lid.