THE Hauraki Plains Gazette. With which is incorporated THE OHINEMURI GAZETTE. Motto Public Service. MONDAY, WEDNESDAY, & FRIDAY. MONDAY, MAY 16, 1927. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 5126, 16 May 1927, Page 2

THE Hauraki Plains Gazette. With which is incorporated THE OHINEMURI GAZETTE. Motto Public Service. MONDAY, WEDNESDAY, & FRIDAY. MONDAY, MAY 16, 1927. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Two arms were broken in Kerepeehi last week. The five-year-old daughter of Mr W. Price, an employee of the Lands Department, fell off a chair and broke her arm, and Mr Norman Nicholson had 'his forearm broken when the engine of a Ford truck he was cranking back-fired.

A reminder is given of the extraordinary general meeting of, the Paeroa Rugby Union, which is to be held at the Soldiers’ Club to-morrow night. The business before the meeting will be the consideration of the report of the. special committee set up to go i]ito the matter of revising the rules, and general.

Four sections, each of 75 acres, at Kopuarahi, used as. two farms, and one farm on the Pekapeka road of 93 acres, were offered for sale at the Turua stockyards on Friday, but failed to attract any bids.

Tn order to commemorate his eightieth birthday Mr Moss Davis, now of London, and formerly a wellknown Auckland business man, has given £1250 to be distributed among Auckland orphanages and various philanthropic societies. Among the institutions specifically mentioned by Mr Davis were St. Mary’s Homes for Girls, Orphans’ Home Papatoetoe, r.nd the Richmond Roa:! Orpininage, and under the gift these institutions will benefit to the extent of £lOO each.

A recent cartoon by Trevor Lloyd was recalled by a Ngatea dairy farmer on Friday last when a cow he was driving from the saleyards wandered into the Ngatea post office. The cartoonist depicted a cow pleading for a holiday when it became known that large quantities of New Zealand butter were stored in England, and the excuse given by the Ngatea fanner for the action of his old cow was that it intended telegraphing to the Hon. J. G. Coates concerning control.

A campaign launched in May. 1925, for the purpose of raising £15,000 for the Jubilee Institute for the Blind has been successful, an amount of £16,671 having been realised. A Government subsidy of £15,000, in three annual payments of £5OOO, has been agreed to. This means that a grand total of £32,671 has resulted from the special effort.

Mr C. W. Malcolm, of Paeroa, had rather an unenviable few moments a number of miles past Waitakaruru when, on Friday last, he was motoring across the Plains. Owing to a skid in loose metal the ear left the road and was precipitated over a sheer bank into the swamp, fortunately without overturning. The speed at which the car was travelling, and the extra application of benzine, coupled with the fact that the driver retained a hard grip on the steering wheel, accounts for the fact that the car regained the road on its wheel base after only a severe shaking.

The Kerepeehi branch of the Plunket Society is experiencing some difficulty in 'raising its quota of tfie cost of the motor-car which is to be provided for the use of the Plunket nurse by the four Plains branches and the- Thames branch. A very enjoyable concert held recently only showed a profit of £3-odd, and efforts to increase the membership of the branch by getting the co-operation of the ladies of the- Netherton end of the- district have so far failed. A meeting was to have been held in Netherton recently, but only four ladies were present, and it was agreed that a personal canvass be made. The branch intends holding a jumble sale shortly, and a black and white paper dress ball is contemplated. Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure. First aid for coughs, colds, influenza.