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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVII, Issue 5042, 20 October 1926, Page 2

The newly metalled section of the ■Tui’ua-Netherton road near the Wharepoa corner has been coated with a dressing of sand, and the surface is .in good order. In a no-license district like the King Country .there .are many evils. :Sly-grog selling and dope are, amongot these, but there is one which presents even greater difficulties —the drinking of methylated spirits, ®ij practice, which has assumed alarming proportions amongst a section of the community whose craving for strong stimulants does not stop at this so’ul•destroying and debasing habit. —King •Country Chronicle. A start was made on Monday with itlie additions to the Ngatea Public Hall. Two dressing-rooms are. being built. It is intended to remove the pre,s.ent dressing-rooms so tha.t additional seating accommodation can be provided. It is the 'intention of a Plains business. man to inaugurate* a daily motor service between Thames and Auckland hi the near future. A 12-passen-ger motor-bus will be. used. The Hauraki Plains County Council on Thursday decided to bring before the notice of the Lands, Drainage Department the dangerous state of the bridge near the Kaihei’e flaxmill. Wood’s Great PoDDermint Cure. For Influenza. Colds take