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

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVII, Issue 5040, 15 October 1926, Page 2

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

Seven permits for buildings, to thf< value of £4421, were granted at last night’s meeting of the Paeroa Borough Council. The value of permits issued for the half-year ended September 30 is. £35,317, as compared with only £5682 9s 6d for the corresponding period of last year. This sum constitutes a record for the borough in ajiiy one,' six months.

A first offender was charged with drunkennness in No.’manby Road, Paeroa» on Wednesday, and was brought before Mr H. J. Hare, J.P., at the local Police Court yesterday morning. In entering a conviction and discharging the defendant the Bench said that he would be given a chance conditional on him leaving the town at once.

Sunday next will be the Eve of the Feast of St. Luke the Evangelist, and will be observed with special services at St. Paul’s Church. There will b® Holy Communion at 8 a.m., .a sung Euchayist at 11, and Festal Evensong at 7 p.m. The Rev. Percy Houghton will be the celebrant and preacher at all the services.

The revenue received by the Paeroa Borough Council during September was £792 19s 7d, and the expenditure totalled £695 Is 7d. The Finance Committee reported that the rates and water charges were coming in slowly, and recommended that water consumers be notified, that unless the water charges were paid before a certain date the supply wo'uld be cut off.

Word was received by the Hauraki Plains County Council yesterday afternoon from Mi" L. B. Campbell, District Engineer, Public Works. Department, Auckland, that the Hauraki Plains w.ater supply proposals had been approved, and that the formal authority was be.ing issued. The councils Water Supply Committee will now proceed with the business as quickly as possible.

The unsatisfactory position from a shipper’s viewpoint that existed at the Ngahina wharf, Paeroa, was mentioned by Cr. P. E. Brenan at last night’s Bo'rpugh Council meeting. He said that the Hauraki Plajns County Council and the Public Works Department appeared to monopolise the wharf. Yesterday the wharf was practically blocked by the operations of the .two bodies mentioned. Th® position was. not fair to the people who were paying wharf and harbour dues, and as the practice had been going on for nearly three months it was time the council made, some move in the matter. The Mayor, deputyMayor, and Cr. Brenan, as a sub-com-mittee, were deputed to investigate the position.

The tennis season will open on the Hauraki Plains to-morrow. The Kerepeehi Club’s courts will be officially opened at 2.30 p.m., and an invitation is extended to the members of all other Plains tennis clubs.

At last night’s Borough Council meeting a letter w.as received from the Boy Scouts Committee expressing sincere thanks 'for several brass band instruments-. Cr. Porritt intimated that the instruments had been repaired and cleaned, and were an acquisition to the band.

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