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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVII, Issue 5053, 17 November 1926, Page 2

On Friday last ; the Piako River at Kaihere; Landing was dnly eighteen inches below the record flood level.

Commencing on Saturday, November 20, the Railways Department intends issuing cheap week-end excursion tickets to Rotorua every Saturday during the summer Particulars are advertised In this, issue.

“The first time I saw him he was riding with two lights:—one on each stirrup,” declared Mr W. D. Lysnar, M.P., who made reference to Mr G. C. Ormond at the pioneers’ banquet at Wairoa recently (reports the Wairoa Star). The ramark was greeted with laughter, but Mr Lysnar stated that it was quoted to show thQ bad state of the roads in the old days,; in they were only old Maori tracks.

Bra.n tub dips, of al sizes and descriptions have been made an illegal game of chance by the heads, of the Gisborne police, and it is authoritatively stated that prosecution will follow for any person or organisation found conducting dips. Athough various organisations have been running bran tubs for years, this is. the first occasion on which the police officials have declared them illegal within the meaning Of the provisions of the; Act pertaining to lotteries. Trouble first arose a week ago, when one of the queen carnival committees was conducting a big bran tub at a street corner in the; town, and received a warning from the police, and again at the show several side-shows were instructed by the Police to stop bran-tub dipping.