THE Hauraki Plains Gazette With which is incorporated THE OHINEMURI GAZETTE. Motto Public Service. MONDAY, WEDNESDAY, & FRIDAY. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 20, 1927. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 5116, 20 April 1927, Page 2

THE Hauraki Plains Gazette With which is incorporated THE OHINEMURI GAZETTE. Motto Public Service. MONDAY, WEDNESDAY, & FRIDAY. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 20, 1927. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Frankton-Thames train which leaves Frankton Junction at 10.35 p.m. was well patronised on Easter Monday night. The usual steam car was replaced by an ordinary engine aird four carriages, and when the train left Hamilton it carried 173 passengers. Of that number 23 persons detrained at Paeroa.

Glorious weather, ideal smroundings, and unbounded hospitality made the Presbyterian Young Women’s Bible Classes Easter Camp at Matamata a holiday to recall pleasant memories. St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church, Paeroa, well represented by thirteen members of the Young Women’s Bible Class, are to be congratulated on winning the basketball tourney at the camp. In the final match Paeroa defeatexl the Rotorua team.

The popularity of Mr A. M. Samuel, M.P., was demonstrated at Netherton last week, when he was highly complimented by the settlers on his. successful advancing of requests to the Hons. A. D. McLeod and K. S'. Williams in connection with extensive drainage improvements in that locality. “You have more to thank Mr Samuel for than me,” was how the Hon. A. D. McLeod replied to an expression of thanks for the generous acceptance of the deputation’s request.

Mr. Justice Alpers told a good story at a drainage board gathering in Christchurch. In rising to respond to ihis health he said :“I did not expect this tiling to be thrust upon me, and this reminds, me that on a certain occasion a speaker used similar words to open his reply. He was a bridegroom replying to his newly-ma.de wife’s health. She was rather, plain. Leaning his hand on her shoulder, the embarrassed groom said : ‘I did not expect to have this thjng thrust upon me.’ ”

The importance of completing the metalling a mile section of the Fae-roa-Pokeno main highway about four miles beyond Waitakaruru was brought before the Ministers on the. Plains last week by Cr. Harris. The Minister of Public Works said that the Highways Beard had now got the ne essary funds, and the work of metalling would be commenced shortly. If the weather kept good the. work would soon he completed.

Coincidence surely in the strangest form was present in the figures supplied the directors of the Taranaki Producers’ Freezing Works (says the “News”). Exactly the same number of crates of cheese were received at the Moturoa works between March 12 and April 9, 1926. and March 12 and April 9, 1927. Tlie figure was 20,322.

To-morrow evening in the Hikutaia Hall the Turua Concert Party will repeat the entertainment which it gave recently in Turua, and later repeated so successfully in the Kerepeehi Hall. The proceeds will go to the Tur.ua Catholic Church building fund.

The live weight of the sheep at the Kerepeehi sports on Monday last was 143 pounds, and the nearest gues was .that of Mrs Reid, of Ngatea, who 143 pounds, and the nearest guess was s%lbs. over.

Financial assistance for tlie improvement of tihe Waitakaruru Domain was sought last week from the Minister of Lands by Mr Harris, a member of the board, which had obtained a bank overdraft on a joint and several guarantee by tlie members. The Hon. A. D. McLeod stated that the annual appropriation by Parliament for the 700-odd domains in the Dominion was £12,000. When the State gave the land it should be admitted that it had done its fair share. Further assistance w,as sometimes given by subsidising improvements, but the Subsidisation of tennis courts or buildings was not entertained. He would go into the question of subsidising the board’s expenditure on the. other work when the time came for making the annual votes.

Particulars of train arrangements on Anzac Day, April 25, are advertised in this issue.

Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure For Children’s Hacking Cough.

The danger of practical joking was demonstrated at the Greymouth State School the other day. One of the pupils affixed a needle to tihe toe of his boot and jabbed it into another boy sitting in the seat in front of him. Tlie boy jumped up and struck the rear of the desk. He collapsed, and on being X-rayed at the hospital it was found that the point of the needle was embedded in his spine.

The methods by which municipal management succeeds in business were explained by a suburban dairyman at a meeting in Wellington. The milk department, he said, had turned a deficit of £ll,OOO into a profit of £lB,OOO. How was the profit made ? The consumers paid for the milk in advance by buying coupons, while farmers were not paid for their milk until the 20th of the following month, so the council was on a safe wicket all the time, working on the consumers’ and the farmers’ money. They called it good business, but the speaker called it a huge swindle, and nothing else.

The Rugby football \eason will open on the Hauraki Plains on Saturday next, when the first matches of the interclub competitions will be played. The Kerepeehi club’s seniors and juniors will travel to Patetonga, and the Turua club’s teams will travel to Waitakaruru. A meeting of the Rugby union will be held on Friday evening for the purpose of of appointing senior representative team selectors, to consider a notice of motion to restore the Turua club boundaries, and general business.

A record number of motor-cars from all parts of the province passed through Paeroa during Easter. Perfect weather prevailed, and as the roads are in very good condition for this time of the. year travelling was made a pleasure.

In a recent bankrupt case a district Official Assignee remarked that the withdrawal of a firm’s advertising was usually the sign of decadent business. The remark emanated from a challenge by a creditor of an item of £2OO per. annum for advertising. An investigation showed that in proportion to the turnover this cost did not exceed 3 per cent., and was exceptionally low for such a business. Comparisons among the creditors, some of whom represented highly successful firms, brought forth the information that the average allocation to advertising by their firms was well over 5 per cent, on the turnover, and this was considered cheap for the business it produced. Qne creditor remarked that a good saleswoman was worth £2OO a year, but her services were practically useless without the help of advertising.