THE Hauraki Plains Gazette With which is incorporated THE OHINEMURI GAZETTE. Motto Public Service. MONDAY, WEDNESDAY, & FRIDAY. MONDAY, MAY 9, 1927. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 5123, 9 May 1927, Page 2

THE Hauraki Plains Gazette With which is incorporated THE OHINEMURI GAZETTE. Motto Public Service. MONDAY, WEDNESDAY, & FRIDAY. MONDAY, MAY 9, 1927. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Three building permits, to the value of £394, were granted at the 4 special meeting of the Paeroa Borough Council on Wednesday night last. One application for a permit was referred back to the applicant for a detailed plan and a fresh estimate.

Another of .the popular Catholic Socials and Euchre Tournaments is to take place in the Gaiety Theatre on Thursday next, May 12.

Mr F. R. Howard, qualified -sighttesting specialist, representing Messrs Barry and Beale., Ltd., of 322 Queen Street, Auckland, will attend at the Criterion Hotel sample rooms on Wednesday, May 11. Intending clients will kindly note the change of address*

Mr G. H. Taylor, headmaster of the local district high school, left Paeroa on Friday night for Wellington, where! he will attend the annual conference of the N.Z. Teachers’ Instiute.

A start has been made by the contractor (Mr A. W. Curtis) on the one and a half -miles of deviation on the Paeroa-Auckland main road between Waitakaruru and Maramarua. With reasonable luck the deviation and metalling should be. completed within a couple of months. In any case, it is expected that motorists will not experience- any great difficulty in getting through during wet weather. The necessity for the deviation is to allow the. proposed Paeroa-Pokeno railway line to cross the saddle at the highest point on the road, and at the same time it will eliminate two level-cross-ings. At the present time the road negotiates the lowest point on the saddle.

Addressed to S. James Palace, S.W., London, a silver model of a patent cow stripper was despatched from Dune-din recently. A nurse during the war on Gallipoli, Mrs Leslie Cook, met her husband and they were married in England. Coming to Ne.w Zealand they started farming on Ahuriri Flat, Otago, and Mrs Cook saw an opportunity of making a milking machine attachment to do away with hand strippjpg. She invented the Dorothy stripper. As the Prince of Wales is keenly interested in dairy herds, having his own ranch at Alberta, Canada, and a model farm in England, Mrs Cook wrote offering a gift model. From the Prince she has received acceptance of the offer, and the model, worked by a Dunedin firm has been mailed tto the Royal farmer.

The Paeroa Borough Council has received advice from Mr A. M. Samuel, M.P., that the Police Department has acceded to the request for an extra constable, at Paeroa. The> council decided to thank Mr Samuel for his untiring efforts in the matter.

It has come to our knowledge (says the Dunedin Star) that a few days ago a man picked up an electric wire that had fallen from a pole i.n the Dunedin suburbs, and, acting in the public interest, as he thought, he picked up the wire, tied it round the pole and rang up the electrical engineer’s office. Such an act was laudable. in purpose, but full of danger, and the object of this paragraph is to convey a warning to the public. In such circumstances the pickcr-up was ignorantly risking his life. What, then, is a person’s duty if he sees a wire down ? He should leave it alone, ring up the department, and stand by until an operator comes, taking care that nobody goes near the wire. No doubt the department would pay for his loss of time if necessary, but assistance would be sent at once. In an emergency—if for some reason it appears that the wire is a source of danger in the meantime—the, most that the observer should do is to push it on one side with a dry stick.

Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure First aid for coughs, colds, influenza.