THE Hauraki Plains Gazette With which is incorporated THE OHINEMURI GAZETTE. Motto Public Service. MONDAY, WEDNESDAY, & FRIDAY. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1926. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

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

THE Hauraki Plains Gazette With which is incorporated THE OHINEMURI GAZETTE. Motto Public Service. MONDAY, WEDNESDAY, & FRIDAY. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1926. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Owing to Mdnday next, October 25 (Labour Day), being a statutory holiday, there will be no publication of the “Gazette.” . Advertisers please note and arrange accordingly.

The Sentinal steam rail-car made its first daylight trip between Frankton Junction and Thames this morning.’ The object of the journey was to test the loop lines and sjdings on the route. Hitherto the rail-car ha*? run on the main line only, and it has been necessary to test the loop lines 1 and sidings in the event of it ever being necessary for the car .to leave the main line at any time during the daily night and early morning trips. No passengers were carried on the clearance test trip this morning with the exception of Messrs D. Moore, car and waggon inspector, district Railways office, Auckland, and Mr C. J. Williams, bridge inspector, Penrose. On arrival at Paeroa at 12.45 p.m. today it was stated that the trial run had been quite satisfactory.

Archdeacon Cherrington, BiShopelect of the new South Auckland Diocese, accompanied by Mrs Cherrington, will arrive about November 11. It has been arranged that the consecration will take place at St. Peter’s Church, Hamilton, on St. Andrew’s Day (November 30), the ceremony to be performed by Archbishop Averill who will be assisted by Bishop Sprott (Wellington), Biishop Sedgwick (Waiapu), and probably other bishops. The enthronement will take place on the same evening at 8 o’clock.

The poles for the .Public Works Department’s Bombay-Waikino electric power line have been erected to the boundary of the. Hauraki Plains County beyond Wajtakaruru. A start is to be made shortly with the erection of the towers on the banks of the Piakq: River 1 near Ngatea.

“As far as all-round expenses are concerned, I think New Zealand is the cheapest country to live In. It cost us about £6O to travel through America in twelve days,” said Mr W. J. McHolm, who .accompanied Mr R. Al. Roße on his recent tour abroad, when speaking to a gathering Of amateur •sportsmen.

“Fifty years ago, to be told, that one had consumption was another way of saying that one would bq dead within a year,” said Dr. C. I. Mclntyre, in a talk at Christchurch. "To-day, from the Cashmere Sanatorium 7'5 per cent, of the case.s turned out are cures, that is, arrested casqs. The cure is 'fresh air and good plain feeding.”

The inspector for the County of Hauraki Plains (Mr R. 'H. Cameron) reported at the la.st meeting of the council that during the month of September he had collected dog taxes totalling £l4, impounded seven horses and seven head of cattle, issued five building permits, fifteen motordrivers’ licenses, five taxi-drivers’ licenses, one heavy traffic license, and one cart license. The measurement? of several loads had been taken and one carrier had been made to divide his load into two.

The Commissioner of Taxes draws the attention of taxpayers to the notification appearing in to-day’s issue that thq due date of payment of landtax for the current year is on Friday, November 5, 1926, and that demandswill be posted on or about October 29.

First aid for coughs, colds. and influenza, Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure.

The flag was flown at half-mast at the Paeroa Post Office; yesterday as a mark of respect to the late Sir James Carroll, who parsed away in a private hospital at Auckland early yesterday morning.

A most despicable act was perpetrated to a motor-car which was left Standing outside the Arohanui nursing home last night. The owner had been visiting his wife, who is seriously ill at the. home, and on returning to his car he found that no less than eight najl holes had been made in the tyres of the car. The act is a particularly mean one, and no stone is, being left unturned to sheet it home.

A city by-law which stipulates .that motorists must not cross street intersections at a greater speed than six milen an hour was held to be unieaspnable by Mr T. E. Maunsell, S.M., in a reserved decision given at Nelson yesterday in a test case defended by the Nelson Automobile Association. In the course of his judgment the magistrate said he kne.w of no principle in law which authorised a local body to so frame a by-law that it could circumvent the difficulties of proof in a prosecution and, in fact, Tender the obtaining of convictions a matter of simplicity and even certainty whenever desired.

On Tuesday next a poll will be taken in the Kerepeehi Hall on the proposal to authorise the Haur&ki Plains County Council to borrow the spm of £7675 for the purpose of forming and metalling Wairau Road and parts of the Kaikahu and Pekapeka. roads. The rate to be le,vied as security for the. loan is l%d in the £ on the unimproved value Of the la,nd in a special rating area. There seems little doubt that the poll will be carried.

The hooligan element manifested itself at the Liberty Theatre, Christchurch, during the progress of a concert which was being given in aid of the unemployment fund (says the Lyttelton Times). A band of young men made themselves objectionable from the very beginning, and .the climax was reached when they so interrupted one of the performers that he walked off the stage in the middle of his item. The police were called in, and after a' couple of the gang had been ejected the artists proceeded under more fav-1 curable circumstances.

At the last meeting of the Hauraki Plains County Council the formal resolutions authorising the raising of a loan of £BOO over .the whole county for the purpose of providing a. residence for the county overseer and inspector were carried. The rate will be one-fiftieth of a penny.

“Tuberculosis ranks fourth in the list of causes of death in New Zealand,” said Dr. T. McKibben, director of the division of public hygiene. Last yeai 1 684 persons died from this cause. Of that number 560 deaths were from chest tuberculosis, or consumption. New Zealand has now the secopd Rawest death rate fr<hn this cause in th« civilised world —second to South Africa.”

“It is estimated that the drought just broken in Queensland. ha s s caused the. loss of 7,000,000 to 8,000,000 sheep. The State has also suffered a, loss of cattle which is just as great in proportion to* that of sheep,” stated Mr G. D. Greenwood, who has returned from a visit to Queensland, where he lias pastoral interests. Queensland, he said, had experienced the worst drought in its history since the years 1901, 1902, and 1923.

There a,re 4553 members cf the chambers, of compnepce throughout New Zealand, and the total executive members pf all the chambers is set down at 500, leaving over 4000 ordinary membe.rs who pay their annual subscription, many of them regarding it as a donation —and take little or no interest in their respective chajmbers’ activities,” stated the president of the associated chambers in a circular forwarded to all chambers in connection with a proposal to’ issue an official journal in the interests of the chambers.

Particulars bf holiday excursion tickets and train arrangements in connection with, the Waikato Hunt Club’s* races at Cambridge and Labour Day holiday are advertised in this issue.

New Zealand apparently is not the only Dominion which is suffering from the unemployment evil (says the “Evening Post”). Replying o a deputation representing the unemployed which waited on Ministers last Wednesday the Hon. W. Downie Stewart (Acting-Prime Minister) stated that he had. met a man from Canada who •said that we in New Zealand did not knew what unemployment was. In a\ Canadian town of 60,000 people there were 12,000 unemployed.

In view of the turning down of the Ngaitaipua Road loan proposal by the ratepayers last week. Cr. Miller moved at Thursdays meeting o!f the County Council that the engineer go into the matter of a cheaper road.

The Department pf Agriculture has advised that Mr R. H. Cameron has been appointed' ah inspector undoc the Noxious Weeds Act for the County of Hauraki Plains.

Here’s a problem in psychology: A young woman was employed by a Christchurch business firm for eight years (says the “Sun). The head of the firm had every confidence in her. She lived in a rented room. Recently, after a short illness, she died. The; landlady of the room which the girl, rented called upon the girl’s employer to join her in' taking an inventory of. the contents of the room. This is what they found : Three and a half’ hags of sugar, about the same quantity of tea, dozens of bars of soap,, iibout ten pounds of block cake (all ins,mall slices), 147 sovereigns;, 4'5 flvepound notes, and many pne-poundi. notes. It was evident that the tea,, sugar, cake, and soap had been taken: to the room in small quantities and ; . carefully accumulated over a period; of years.

Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure. For Coughs and Colds /never Trffls.