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

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVII, Issue 5062, 8 December 1926, Page 2

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

Mr A. M. Samuel, M.P., arrived at Paeroa yesterday. In the evening he motored to Waihi, where he will take part to-day in the official welcome to His Excellency the GovernorGeneral (Sir Charles Fergusson). Tomorrow morning he will accompany the Vice-Regal party to Waikino, where the crushing battery is to> be inspected. Mr Samuel xvill reach Paeroa ahead of the party in order to' take part in the local official welcome.

A schoolboy named Claude Wight, son dt M'r R. J. O. Wight, Puke Road, Paeroa, met with a painful accident while returning home from school yesterday afternoon. It appears that he was cycling along Belmont Road with his sister sitting on the frame of the machine in front of him,, when the front fork snapped. Fortunately the, little girl Slipped to the ground without injury, but young Wight was thrown heavily. He sustained cuts and bruises on his legs and left arm, and in addition received skin abrasions to his face. The practice eV “double-banking” on a bicycle cannot be too condemned.

A statement of the financial result of the Hauraki Plains A. and P. asisociation’s Art Union will be given at a general meeting of members at Kerepeehi on the 20th instant.

The hearing of the objections df the validity of the recent loan poll held at Kerepeehi has been postponed from to-morrow, Thursday, to the following day.

We are advised that a new Jewellery and optical business is .to be established in premises near this office, opening up about December 16, 1926, with a new and up-to-date stock*

At Monday’s sitting of the Ohinemuri Licensing Committee at Paenoa the chairman (Mr F. W. Platts) said that the fence at the Paeroa Hotel had not been completed according to the requirements of the committee. Senior-Sergeant Maclean stated .that the Committee’s recommendations hM not been carried out in respect to the Paeroa Hotel, and the' Rob Roy and Commercial hotels, Waihi. The chairman remarked that he hoped the various matters would receive attention. Serious difficulties would arise If the recommendations were not carried out. He hoped that before the next sitting off 1 the Committee the work would be done to the. entire satisfaction of the police.

The Public Works Department has now approved of the acceptance of the tenders for the supply of concrete mains for the Hauraki Plains West water supply scheme. Work on the dam will start shortly.

The local borough workmen are at present spending a busy time cleaning up the principal streets in anticipation of the Governor-General's visit to Paeroa to-morrow. A transformation is being enacted at Arney Street, where the sides of the street are being cleared of noxious weeds and other unsightly growth. The Beautifying Society’s plot in the same vicinity is also receiving special attention. The old tumbled-down arbour's, have been removed and replaced with punga structures. Good progress is being made in the Domain, especially in the vicinity of the band rotunda, where the old moat is being filled in and paths Formed.