THE Hauraki Plains Gazette. With which is incorporated THE OHINEMURI GAZETTE. Motto Public Service. MONDAY, WEDNESDAY, & FRIDAY. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 1, 1927. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 5133, 1 June 1927, Page 2

THE Hauraki Plains Gazette. With which is incorporated THE OHINEMURI GAZETTE. Motto Public Service. MONDAY, WEDNESDAY, & FRIDAY. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 1, 1927. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Advertisers will please note that the “Gazette” will be published tomorrow (Thursday) instead of Friday. All matters for publication must be at the office by midday.

Speaking at the opening of the Waikato Winter Show at Hamilton yesterday afternoon His Excellency the Governor-General counselled the settlers to develop the branches of farming other than dairying. He instanced the money that could be made from pigs and bees. He thought it was not wise “to put all of one’s eggs in a single basket,” and, to use a colloquialism, “try and make up on swings what one lost on the roundabout.” (Laughter.)

Tlie first annual report of Anthony Hordern and Sons, Ltd., of Sydney, snice the sale of the- business in May last year to the new public company has been made available. The accounts cover the year ended February 23, 1927. Net profit of £262,922 is revealed, compared with average annual profit of £241,763 for the three preceding years.

The sheep station known as. St. James, owned by Mr C. H. Ensor and situated on the Dills behind Hamner, comprising 190,000 acres leasehold with 28 years to run, and 4026 acres of freehold, was sold at Christchurch the other day for £11,250’.

In the course of his address at the opening of the Waikato Winter Show at Hamilton yesterday His Excellency the Governor-General said that he firmly believed the hard times recently experienced in- the Dominion were coming to an end. He sympathised cordially with the farmers in the difficulties they experienced, and if they could keep a stout heart and carry on all would come right in the near future.

The first of the inter-club hockey -matches under the control of the -newly formed Pla.ins Hockey Association were played on Saturday last, when tlie Ngatea School team beat the Kopuarahi second team by one goal to nil, the Kopuarahi A team beat tlie Ngatea team, by two to nil. and Waitakaruru beat Kerepee-hi by five- to nil.

A requisition signed by 56 permanent and temporary residents of the Waihi Beach has been forwa.rded to the chief postmaster, Thames, asking for a mail service three times a week instead of once a week, as at present (states the Waihi Telegraph). The document points out that a weekly service all through the winter is causing considerable inconvenience-, as many who reside at tlie beach receive business and other letters requiring early replies, and in many cases these cannot be given under present conditions, the only mail in tlie week arriving at night and leaving early the next morning. There is the same delay in the replies to letters sent out. With tlie improved condition of tlie road the number of residents at the beach is appreciably increasing, and as postal facilities are next in importance to a good road the residents hope that the- requisition will be favourably considered.

Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure For Coughs and Colds, never fails.

Just prior to commencing the business at the Thames Valley Rugby Union meeting lest night the chairman (Mr J. Silcgck) extended hearty congratulations to Mr C. Foster, one of the Hauraki Plains delegates, on the success he had obtained at the Waikato Winter Show in winning the Provincial Competition, Open Championship of N.Z. for box of butter foi export, third in the Championship Banner, third in A. J. Mills’ Challenge Cup, and recently the Weddel Cup. This he considered was a, great performance, and one his old Paeroa friend could feel very proud of indeed. In replying Mr Foster said that naturally he was proud of the success, not so much for his own sake but for the grand advertisement it gove to the district.

“It is a great attribute to be- content With one’s lot,’’ remarked the Governor-General in opening the Waikato Winter Show at Hamilton yesterday. He added that he believed general happiness and satisfaction would obtain if farmers would go in more for small profits ;;nd quick returns. His Excellency strongly deprecated the pessimistic talk in which many farmers were only too prone to indulge.

A start has been made with the metalling of the first cutting in the unmctalled section of the PokcuoPlains highway. Only a few chains will lie done to the new bridge, as a deviation is to be made . Tn wet weather the rest of the unmetalled road is in bad order, and chains are necessary for all cars.

At the annual meeting of the Paeroa Schools’ Rugby Union on Saturday last Mr AV. Malcolm, of Paeroa, donated, in 'the interests of cricket, a shield, which he desired to hand to the- union as there was no similai body to control cricket in the surrounding schools. Mr Malcolm was thanked for his donation, and several speakers expressed opinions that the shield should do much to promote cricket in the schools. It was decided that the shield be competed for among schools under the jurisdiction of tlie union, and that a committee be formed in due course to control the matches.

In connection with the laying of the water supply pipe-line along tire Waitakaruru-Pipirooa road trenches are being dug and the spoil deposited on the roadside, thereby restricting the space available for vehicles. This has been the cause of several minor accidents. An accident occurred last Saturday evening, when two cars collided in endeavouring to pass, and as a result one cqr was so disabled that it had to remain on the roadside until morning. Particularly unfortunate was the owner, a Ngatea man, in that lie was just bringing his car back from Auckland where it had been overhauled and repainted.