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

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 5128, 20 May 1927, Page 2

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

The annual statutory meetings f,or the election of chairmen for the various counties throughout the Dominion will be held on Wednesday next.

Miss N. N. Cumberworth has been appointed assistant to the. Paeroa District High Schopl, and Miss WNathan, of Paeroa, has been temporarily appointed sole teacher at the Kinohahu No. 1 School.

No less than 600 replies were received in answer to an advertisement for a married couple as caretakers I’ol a gentleman’s residence in Auckland.

The attention of passengers who travel by boat to Auckland is drawn to the fact that the Taniwha, advertised to leave Paeroa on Wednesday, June L will not leave until the following day (Thursday), at 8 p.m. This alteration has been made in order to give those wishing to attend the races an opportunity of. arriving in Auckland on Friday morning and returning on Sunday, June 5. The passenger fares throughout the district, including Thames, are now brought into line, namely, 10s single and 17s 6d return. In response to representations made to the Northern Steam Ship Co. a stewardess is now carried on the Taniwha.*

An old-time racing incident of fifty years ago was related the other day by a Gisborne sportsman (says "Times”), who recalled that in 1877 or 1878 the racehorse Perfume, owned by Owen McGee, was brought down from Auckland in the Pretty Jane, over-carried to Napier in consequence of rough weather, and on the return a few days later, the weather being still rough, could not be transferred to a ligther, and consequently was thrown overboard and swam ashore. The horse was walked out to Wae-renga-a-hika the same morning and won two races that day, proving that there was some pretty good stuff in horseflesh in those days.

There is a saying, “If at first you don’t succeed, try, try, try again." The recent local body elections may have aroused sad feeli.ngs so far as some of the candidates were concerned, but possibly they will be consoled, even stimulated, by the experience of a Blenheim local body candidate. He is described as an unconquerable soul, with head battered but unbowed, the holder of the world’s record for defeats at local body elections. He has been unsuccessful on 26 different occasions. He once obtained a seat on the Blenheim Borough Council at a by-election, there being no other candidate. but when the municipal elections came along a few months later the ratepayers rejected him.

It was recently stated that Tauniatawhakatuphanupakoana.il. was given as his address by a guest at one of the hotels at Wanganui. This, says a Napier paper, is a Hawke’s Bay address, but either the guest was how-came-you-sp or the typo—not taipo—had bad writing to deal with, for between them a horrible press has been made of the spelling. Moreover, one or the other must have got tired before finishing it. Here it is in its integrity and entirely—Taumatawhakatangitangihangakoauau - a - Tamatekoiki, which, being interpreted, is “the little round hill on which Tama te Koiti sat and played his flute.”

What was described as a courageous, attempt to solve the matriculation examination deadlock was made at the meeting of the Secondary Schools’ Association at Wellington when it was suggested that a general certificate should be awarded by examination to fourth-year pupils. The idea behind the suggestion was that such a certificate would be the equivalent of matriculation and be taken by those not desiring to proceed to the universities. The standard of matriculation as a university entrance examination could then be raised ; at present it was neither one thing nor another. The mattter was left in the hands of the executive.