THE Hauraki Pains Gazette With which is incorporated THE OHINEMURI GAZETTE. Motto Public Service. MONDAT, WEDNESDAY, & FRIDAY. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1926. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVII, Issue 5043, 22 October 1926, Page 2

THE Hauraki Pains Gazette With which is incorporated THE OHINEMURI GAZETTE. Motto Public Service. MONDAT, WEDNESDAY, & FRIDAY. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1926. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Bunting was flown from the local post office and Public Works office yesterday in commemoration of the Battle of Trafalgar.

Changeable weaffier proves locally. Yesterday was a perfect day, and •the hottest so far lecotded this s'ummer.. The night was clear and starry, but just after midnight the barometer dropped back two points and heavy rain fell. There have been several heavy showers of rain this morning, but the barometer is remaining fairly steady.

Unusual circumstances surrounded an accident to a little girl, who w-s admitted to the New Plymouth Hospital on Sunday suffering from a severed finger, states the Taranaki Herald. Lt appears that the child was playing with her brother, and he told her that if she laid her finger, on a wooden block he would chpp it .off. No doubt thinking it was only fun she did so, whereupon he proceeded to carry out his promise. Fortunately it was 1 the left hand. The child’s condition is not in any way- serious.

Shipping business at the Puke, wharf has shown sign,s. of increased activity during the la.s-t few weeks. Regular consignments of ched&e from Manawai’u and butter from Te Aroha are being brought down the. Waihou River on barges and transhipped at the Puke for Auckland. In addition, cheese consignments are being shipped to Auckland from Turua and Hikutaia. The cargoes ‘from Auckland have also been fairly heavy lately, and last week it was, necessary to put on an auxiliary scow to cope with the goods.

The Government has purchased a site in Pollen Street, Thajmep, for the purpose of erecting a new chief post office in a central position. Now that all the banks and chief business houses are concentrated in the centre of the town, the old post office buildingin Gi'ahamstown is too far away for business- to be rapidly transacted- The Chamber of Commerce has bee,n urging this matter for the last two years; upon the heads of the department. The new site has a frontage of 66ft to Pollen Street and 33lft to Queen: Street. The price paid was £lBOO. It is understood, however, that the department will not build for two years.

An a.ccident of a sensational nature, fortunately unattended by an injury, occurred at Wairoa (H. 8. when a lorry went backwards over the Wairoa wha,rf, falling into deep water. The lorry was left standing on ,the wharf while a stqel cable, weighing over a ton, for logging at the hydro-electric works, was loaded. Prior to leaving the vehicle, the driver placed the lorry into reverse gear, but forgetting that he. had done so, he later cranked up, with tlie result that the. lorry went backwards. The stringer at the edge of the wharf temporarily; stopped the lorry’s progress, say,® an exchange, but the, impetus carried the tlie heavy cable to the rear of the vehicle causing It to over-balance and fall into the river. The coat of the driver, containing a sum of money, which was left in the seat, floated to the surface aibil was secured. The lorry fell into .the river top downwards, and will, therffore, be exceedingly difficult to secure.

Brightly written, beautifully printed on art paper, and profusely illustrated, the Christmas Annual Of the “N.Z. Free Lancq,” just to hand, can safely challenge comparison with any production of the kind south of the line. Within its 80 pages there is a rich feast of holiday material —cartoons, pictures Of urban and rur.al life, amusing verse and ticklingstories. And, to crown a ; ll, there are two handsome souvenir pictures in natural colours: one depicting a handsome Maori girl ("Kahurangi, the Treasure of the Tribe”) and the othey “Where Captain Cook Landed — Pickersgill Harbour, Dusky Sound.” These are real works of a,rt which many people will be glad to put Into suitable framing. Altogether, a. splendid holiday number and a very cho'ice,

present to post away to your friends.

Tlie official opening of the, Paeroa Lawn Tennis Club will ta,ke place at two o’clock on Motoday afternoon. Four courts' will be available foir play to member's up to noon, on Monday.

The acceptances for the first day’s races of the Thames Jockey Club’s meeting close with the secretary, box 7. Thames, this afternoon at '5 o’clock.

There will be no morning service at St. Paul’s Church on Sunday next, and parishioners are reminded that until the appointment of a vicar, or a locum tenens, there will not be any servee on Sunday mornings, except when a priest from one of the adjoining parishes is able to attend! and celebrate the Holy Euchaijst. Due notice of .this will always be given in this paper.

A special meeting of the P.aeroa District High School Committee is to be held to-night to discuss ways and means of raising a sufficient sum of money to build a, permanent demal clinic. The committee has. received advice ‘frota the Director of Dental Hygiene that a- dental officer will be stationed at Paerpa for, the purpose of' treating school children’s teeth, provided a suitable clinic is established and maintained.

Owing to the somewhat primitive tools, used, it seems that a good de,al of the oil from the body of the whale found on Waihl Beach by Messrs, McKee. and Smith will be lost, together with much of the oil from .the mammal's. head which has been running into the sand. The difficulty in cutting the whale up for rendering down was Increased by the fact that it was lying on its back when washed ashore, and was buried in parts to a depth of three or four feet.

The Commissiion which recently investigated the grievances of the Ratetonga settlers- op the instruction of the Minister of Lands revisited the Plains on Tuesday last. The members had hoped to be able to make ap inspection during the heigh t of the flood, but the floods in other parts of the country prevented them 'from getting to .the Plains last week as. they desired. On Tuesday the Commission inspected the Piako River from its mouth to the southern boundary of the Government drainage area. This, concludes the field work.

A splendid demonstration of the benefit of using a pump td deal with the drainage of land is afforded by the plant on the Puhanga Island block, near Ngateii. Much of this land is inundated every winter by water which percolates through the stopbanks, a,nd, also that which falls, as rain. An electrically driven centrifugal pump was. installed .this winter, and at the present time, when the land otherwise would undoubtedly have be.en flooded for several months past, there are 130 head of catttle on a certain farm of 94 acres. There is ample feed, and the laind is in -better order than most of the farms in the county.

What might have been a serious accident was- narrowly averted early on Wednesday morning. A farm-hand named G. Wakefield, employed on Mr L. E. Cassrels’ farm on Thames Road. was driving a Dodge car into Paeroa with bottled milk for town delivery. When near Mr J. Morrison’s property a mob of cattle, proceeding in the opposite direction, was met, and Mr Wakefield pulled off too far on to the side of the road, with the result that he collided with an eletcric light pole. The front portion of the car was. damaged, and some of the power lines were loosened, but the driver, espaped injury.

lffis,s Catherine Jane Jellicoe, of 12 Portland Terrace, Southamptoln, who died on June 27 104 years, aunt qf Admiral Ear) Jellicoe, left estate in her own disposition of the gross value of £14,239 15s Bd, with net personalty £13,977 3s Bd. Mis ( s Jellicoe bequeathed £.lOOO to charities, £loo'o upon trust for her companion, Sarah Applin, for life, with remainder to her residuary estate, and £BOO to her nephew, Admiral Earl Jellicoe, together with two miniatures., one of her mother and one of her grandfather, and to Lady Jellicoe her pearl spray Prooch. ,

Thq case of a bftckblocks storekeeper who was "let in” by a casual worker employed by the council was mentioned by a member of the V* anganui County Council (states the Chronicle). It was explained that the storekeeper held an order on the man’s, wages, but did not get it into the office in time to prevent .the man from lifting his wages and clearing out. The county clerk said the council could not accept responsibility. It was too risky altogether. Hq mentioned °!ne case wher© a country sterekeeper lost £53 on his .transaction's, with a casual worker, who was evidently casual in more senses than one.

The September of Statistics shows that for th© eight months oif the year ending August 14,646 tons of potatoes, valued ia,t £119,299, were exported from the Dominion. All except a few hunched tons' went to Sydney. For the corresponding period last year the shipments aggregated 2335 tons, valued at £16,970. Tn the September month just ended ano.her 300 i) tons were dispatched, or a total for the year of 17,736 tons, or 205,096 sacks, of a total, value of £140,000. All these potatoes went from Canterbury a,nd the contiguous, country of North Otago. There are still shipments pending which will make the gross value of the potato export this year over £150,000. The praises of th© "N.Z. Sporting and Dramatic Review” are universally sounded by reason of its variety of subjects. Pride of place i$ given td the Australian Jockey Club’s spring me.eting, and the Auckland Trotting Club’s meeting is also dealt with. The centre pages depict the Gorden Highlanders’ manoeuvres, crowning of Miss America, finish of the St. Leger at Doncaster, Britsh girl athletes, and fashion fads. A page of latest fashions ■and another of humour add to the brightness of the issue, while the miscellaneous section covers a wide field of subjects.