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

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 5121, 4 May 1927, Page 2

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

A special meeting of the Paeroa Borough ‘Council is to be held tonight. The business before the meeting will be the taking of the statutory declaration required of the Mayor and councillors, the election of deputy-Mayor, and the settling up of committees.

The local registrar (Mr W- E. Ward) supplies the- following vital statistics for Paeroa for the month of April, the figuies for the corresponding month of last year being given in parenthesis : Births, 7 (5) ; deaths, 2 (1); marriages, 3 (2).

At the Magistrate’s Court, Paeroa, on Monday, before Mr F. W. Platts, S.M., judgment by default, with costs, was given in the following cases : J. J. Mathieson v. W. H. Pearcey, £3 3s ; W. W. Little v. C. Dally, £1 Ils 6d ; same v. J. D. Robertson, £2 10s ; same v. B. Bowman, £1 14s ; W. Fleming and Son v. A. W. Turner, £3l 6s lid.

Sportsmen are meeting with much success, so far as securing good bags of duck are concerned. On Monday morning the Richmond brothers’party of three guns accounted for 66 birds, while several local sportsmen obtained the maximum allowed by law (12 ta brace), and were back in Paeroa at an early hour in the morning. The best sport is being obtained in the Awaiti district, where birds are very plentiful this season. So far there h«s been nm> report of many pheasants being s/cured.

Tlie public generally will be pleased to learn that after some considerable lapse of. time another auctioneering firm has commenced in Paeroa, and will in future hold regular sales at the mart, adjoining the Farmers 4 - Trading Co., Ltd. The first sale is advertised to take place at 2 o’clock on Friday afternoon next, when a quantity of furniture and sundry articles will be offered by Messrs F. Ward and Co.

The boat with poles for the Valley Electric Power Board has been weather-bound at Newcastle, but advice has now been received that she left Newcastle on April 26 and should arrive at Kopu within the next few days. Owing to the wet weather recently experienced there has not been any shortage of poles.

Mr Charles Hill, the general safety agent of the New York Central Railways, announces that 90,000 persons were killed and 2,500,000 were injured in accidents of all kinds in 1925 in the United States. One fourth of this number were children under I's years of age .

The total number of consumers connected to the Thames Valley Electric Power Board’s mains on April 30, 1927, was 6378, including tlhe boroughs of Thames and Te Aroha. During last month 7 water-heaters, 2 eletcric ranges, 6 motors on farm, of which 3 were- 3 h.p. milking motors, were connected. There are now connected and operating 1001 water-heaters and 117 electric ranges, and tlie total number of motors connected and running on farms is 1882, of which 1617 are 2 h.p. milking motors. In add'tion to theabove, 26 consumers had additional lights. and heating points, etc., connected during the month.

The. Railway Department advertises in this issue particulars of train arlangemcnts and excursion .fares in connection with the Cambridge Trotting Club’s races at Cambridge on the 7th instant.

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