THE Hauraki Plains Gazette With which is incorporated THE OHINEMURI GAZETTE. Motto Public Service. MONDAY. WEDNESDAY. & FRIDAY. FRIDAY, MARCH 4, 1927. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 5094, 4 March 1927, Page 2

THE Hauraki Plains Gazette With which is incorporated THE OHINEMURI GAZETTE. Motto Public Service. MONDAY. WEDNESDAY. & FRIDAY. FRIDAY, MARCH 4, 1927. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Arrangements have been made for the reception by wireless at St. Paul’s Church Oif, the three addresses to be given by the Bishop of London in Auckland on Sunday next. He will preach at St. Matthew’s Church at the 11 o’clock service, and will give an address in the Town Hall at 3 p.m. and preach at the Evensong at St. Mary’s Cathedral at 7 p.m. It is hoped that all these addresses will be heard here, and the church will be open all day to give those who desire to do so' an opportunity of hearing them. At Evensong it is intended, if the conditions are sufficiently favourable, that the service in the Cathedral shall take the place cf the ordinary Evensong in St. Paul's Church, and that the congregation shall join, in spirit, in the worship and prayers being offered in’ the Cathedral.

In support of his contention that the Railway Department was making an. honest endeavour to provide a good service for the public Mr W. Barrett, traffic inspector, Frankton Junction, stated at the conference of chambers of commerce at Paeroa on Wednesday night that goods loaded at Auckland during the afternoon were now available To delivery to consignees in the Thames Valley t,he following morning.

According to figures supplied by the kcal office of the Public Works Department the total rainfall at, Paeroa for the month of February was 5.64 inches, which is in excess of the figures for the corresponding month last year, which were 1.11 inches. Rain fell on ten days last month, the heaviest fall, 2.11 inches, being on Thursday, February 10.

A total of 20,328 cars and car chassis were imported into New Zealand last year, compared with 18,825 in 1925. The agregate value was less than in 1925, an indication that ear prices have fallen considerably. The dutiable value o‘f cars and car chase's imported last year was £3,080,574, as against £3,389,851 in 1925.

In reply to a deputation from the Hauraki Plains County Council, comprising Crs. E. L. Walton (chairman), J. A. Reid, Fisher, and F. Basham (engineer), the Ohinemuri County Council passed the following resolution in connection with the Netherton ferry at its meeting yesterday - “That if the Hauraki Plains County Council will maintain the ferry in workable order the Ohinemuri County Council will undertake to keep the road in usable or passable order witnout, claim on the Hauraki Plains County Council.”

At the meeting of the Auckland Education Board the ohief postmaster reported that 1003 school children’s accounts had been opened in the Auckland postal district, and 1200 in Thames.

The tender Tor installing septic t.nnk drainage and sanitary plumbing at l,he Catholic Hostel, Waihi has been let to Mr R. S. Kalin.

In connection with the erosion of the Komata Creek near Mr C. H. •Price’s property the chairman (Cr H. M. Corbett) stated at yesterday’s meeting of the Ohinemuri County Council that the matter had been looked into, but before anything in the nature o,f relief could be given it would be necessary to have a survey made of the area. If the council had no authority over the stream at that pciint it could do nothing, and the matter would be one for the Public Works Department, The erosion was taking place at an alarming rate, and some protective measures would have to bo adopted at once.

During the hearing of a claim for damages for injuries received in an accident, at the Hamiltpn Supreme Court on Tuesday Mr W. J. King, counsel for defendant, asked the doctor giving evidence if it was n°t possible that plaintiff’s nervous condition would materially improve when a settlement of the present litigation was affected. His Honour, Mr Justice Stringer, said it would probably depend on which way the action went. (Laughter.) He had had considerable experience of nervous condition in the Arbitration Court, where he 'found that the mediciiie of damages was always curative. The difficulty was to know the exact dose. (Laughter.)

“As a rule Scotsmen are not, keen on too much water,” observed Cr. P. S. Boyes, at the Blenheim Borough Council meeting, when His Worship the Mayor was expressing indignation at the fact that the old St. Andrew’s Tennis Club had “let the borough in” for £B-odd, due for water supply. His Worship, however, was so angry that an institution of such, splendid Scottish nomenclature could have ignored >ts financial obligations that he failed to see Cr. Boyes’ joke.

At the opening of the New Zealand Poultrymen’s Conference at Auckland it was stated that the possibilities of the egg industry were not altogether understoood in New Zealand. England had in 1924 imported £13,000, 000 worth of, eggs in the shell, of which £11,000.000 worth had been imported from foreign countries and’but £16,000 worth from New Zealand. Since then theie had been a yearly decrease in the export of New Zealand eggs.

A party Of motorists who arrived in Palmerston North a day or two ago after covering about 1000 miles stated to a “Times” reporter that the worst roads they had encountered were m the Auckland district. The surfaces of the deviations that they had to make in this locality, they declared, were in a deplorable condition. Generally speaking, however, the roads ivere in very fair order.

A return tabled at yesterday's, meeting of the Ohinemuri County Council showed that 55 cows, 13 steers and heifers, 142 sheep, 31 lambs, 2 calves, and 10 pigs had been slaughtered at the Paeroa abattoirs, during February. The fees for the month totalled £45 2s 2d.