THE Hauraki Plains Gazette With which is incorporated THE OHINEMURI GAZETTE. Motto Public Service. MONDAY, WEDNESDAY, & FRIDAY. FRIDAY, JANUARY 7, 1927. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 5072, 7 January 1927, Page 2

THE Hauraki Plains Gazette With which is incorporated THE OHINEMURI GAZETTE. Motto Public Service. MONDAY, WEDNESDAY, & FRIDAY. FRIDAY, JANUARY 7, 1927. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Railway Department advertises in" this issue particulars of the train arrangements in connection with an excursion train, Frankton to Waihi and back, on Sunday next.

At the New Year’s Day athletic sports at Te Aroha A. R. Morrison, of Nether ton, gain second place in the 120 yards handicap and also in the 220 yards handicap.

Unseasonable weather continues to prevail locally. Although the atmosphere has been very sultry, there has been little bright sunshine. There was heavy rain yesterday afternoon, whiflh has continued intermittently throughout last night and this morning. Although’the weather is ideal from a pastoralist’s, point of vife.w, it is hardly in keeping with ,the weather usually experienced in January.

Good work Is being done on Belmont Road from the bitumenised porton to Taylor’s, Avenue. First-class road metal is being used, and as it is spread it is well rolled, and should stand the heavy traffic. A satisfactory feature Of the repair work is the concrete kerbing and channelling which is being carried out simultaneously with the other work.

As a pictorial record Of the recent racing and trotting carnivals in Auckland nothing could be finqr for a souvenir than this weekfe issue of the “N.Z. Sporting and Dramatic Review.” In addition to a comprehensive series of snapshots covering important items, there also appears a striking full page of the Auckland Cup winner Tanadees., while Rapine’s brilliant victory in the Summer Cup is featured in conspicuous fashion. •Apart 'from racing, one notices, the beautiful illustrations of English topical events. The centre, pages are devoted to Armistice Day homage at the Cenotaph, London. In an attractive miscellany appears enrolling members of the. Red Cross, Charlie Chaplin family group, Indian Ceremony of the Dolls, etc.

How a woman who had a house to sell in the vicinity o'f Timaru obtained several hundred pounds more for it than she originally asked makes an interesting little story (states the Herald). The woman had decided to ask £550 for the property, and an agent, having heard of her decision, took a prospective buyer to see it. It so happened that when they arrived at the house the, lady was dressing to go out, and did not find it convenient, to go to the d'°or, so she sent her little daughter out with insructions to say that she was not at home. The agent and the prospective, buyer thought that while they were at the house there could be no harm in looking through it, so they stepped In and carried their desire into effect. On realising the position the woman of the house, being only partly dressed, stepped into the wardrobe of her room and closed the door, and when the self-invited visitors reached this room on their tour of inspection the prospective buyer remarked to the agent: “And she only wants £550 for the place. Well, she’s, a fool; I’ll close the deal on the spot.” All unconscious o'f the fact that the owner of the property had heard this interesting little comment on her house the agent and his man departed. The woman, however, put the conversation, which she had overheard to such good use that the man to whom the property had been originally offered, for £550 subsequently paid £9OO for it. And this story, it is said, has the merit of being true.

It is understood Uiat the profits of the Cambridge (Kia Ora) art union will amoupt to approximately £l3OO. The results cannot be flnaliesd until the gold purchased by the management is disposed of, the sale being delayed owing to the low prices at present ruling for this commodity.

One of the pleasing at the Waihi Beach during the holidays was the absence of intoxication and anything in the shape of disorderly conduct (states the “Telegraph”). The. thousands of campers, and those who went to the seaside Tor ,the day seemed to have no thought, of the “cup that cheers,’’ with the happy result that there was nothing to mar the pleasure o’f the most fastidious. In the forenoon of each of the principal visiting days the popular pastime was bathing in the surf, while the. hundreds who did not so indulge spent the best part of thejr time in ascending points of vantage, df which there are. many, and viewing from the elevations the expanse of ocepn which lay before them, or in passing hour after hour in restful composure upon the grassy slopes and under tjie. spreading pohutukawas. Gol’f and cricket, played upon the long, wide stretches of hard sand, also gave opportunities for the skill of enthusiasts to find full vent, and in many other days t.he time spQnt was Tull of enjoyment.