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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 5078, 21 January 1927, Page 2

Some slight alterations in the timetable for the Morrinsville-Th.*mC3 line operating from Monday next are advertised in th's issue by the Railway Department. Farmers on the Hauraki P ains who were warned about a year ago to have, their machinery protected by guard rails, etc., in accordance witli the regulations, will receive a shock in the course oT the next few days if the instructions df th-e. machinery inspector given on his last visit have not been carried out. A wily but risky means was adopted recently by a Plains woman to get rid of one o'f t,he persistent door-to-door canvassers who have frequented the district so much this summer. Other methods having been of no avail she gave him a cheque, which in due course was returned from the bank on account an irregular signature. The agent took it back and the woman was very apologetic, but, supported by her husband, she declined to add the necessary words to the cheque to make it good and admitted that she had adopted the ruse to get rid o'f the canvasser. He tells tlie stpry against himself. A driver of one o'f the 'service cars to. Auckland is. not impressed with the. manner in which at least one well-known Plains farmer rewarded a kindly action which saved him much loss of time and inconvenience (says the Thames Star). The 'farmer had booked a passage by an opposition car, but failed.to connect owing to a mis.undersanding about a meetingplace. The service car, with a 'full load, ! re.t the farmer at the Pipiroa ferry, the passengers commenting on the confident manner in which the farmer demanded a ride on the running board to a point three miles- distant in order to board the opposition car. They were still more surprised, however, to see him step off the car and stroll away without t'he slightest word of thanks or appreciation. When asked what he thought, about it, the driver’s terse comment was: “Oh, that’s nothing. We often meet jokers like that over here,”