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

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVII, Issue 5049, 8 November 1926, Page 2

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

Fine weather prevailed at Paeroa on Saturday afternoon, and tennis, bowls, and cricket held full sway. Shortly before 5 p.m. heavy rjiin fell, continuing intermittently throughout the night until about 11.30 o’clock yesterday morning. The north-easter-ly wind then dropped and a fine afternoon prevailed.

A horse attached to a heavy cart was being driven along Hajuraki Road, Turua, on Thursday morning , by the owner, Mr W. Nash, when one of the reins broke and the: animal became unmanageable and bolted. Its career was stopped by a telegraph pole, which was knocked over. The shafts of the pole were broken and the telephone wires for two spans on both sides ,of the pole, were broken. Repairs. to the wires was effected by Friday..

The Railway Department has concluded negotiations for the purchase of five motoir buses running between Napier and Hasting in competition' with the The department will take over from Wednesday next. Negotiations are also proceeding with a view to the purchase of the buses of another company running on the sama route.

Th<* gate takings tor the two days of the Waikato Show were £3’55, compared with £264 in 1924 and £439 in 1925.

A totalisator proprietor, who operates chiefly on the. West Cofast, received a surprise packet in his mail recently. A sum of money, amounting to/ nearly £lOO, was enclosed in an envelope, which stated .that, “this money belongs to you.”

When the Magistrate was taking his seat at the local Court this morning an elderly man leaned over the bar and called: “In the name of the King”.— “Silence !” roared the constable, and thus was a religious fanatic’s protest nipped in the bud.

The matter of having the Turua Roll of Honokir corrected and renovated was advanced another step at last week’s meeting of the Town Board, when the clerk was instructed to get a quoe for the work necessary 'from the Auckland firm which supplied the board.

The commemo/ration of the Gunpowder Plot was carried out in the time-honoured style by the children of Paeroa on Friday (Guy Fawkes’ Day). During the day crackers and other fireworks were purchased in large quantities, and during the evening the air reverberated with the sounds, of weird and wonderful'detonations. As the evening wore on many bonfirqs were lighted at vantage points in the town, and effigies of Guy Fawkes were well and truly burned to the accompaniment of shrieks of delight from the youngqr generation, many of whom had spent hours of toil in collecting rubbish and other material to make a good blaze. A gay crowd thronged the main streets on Friday night, armed with cracke.rs and throw-downs. Happily the night passed off without any accident -occurring to mar the pleasure or occasion the services of the fire brigade.

The running of farm tractors having agricultural wheels, on the bitumen bound roads of Turua is causing some concern on account of the damage caused. At a meeting of the board last week it was reported that on Piako Road pieces of bitumen had been torn up by the flanges on the wheels of these tractors. The board decided to seek information on' the regulations governing the use of such implements on the roads and particularly as to how to prevent damage being caused.