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

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 5141, 20 June 1927, Page 2

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

Contrary to indications on Friday, a fine week-end was experienced locally, and no rain fell until last night. A heavy -fog prevailed on Saturday morning, and although fine, the atmosphere was very cold. A strong nor’-easterly wind prevailed throughout yesterday, and there was little sunshine. Last night the wind veered farther round to the -east, and heat? rain fell during the night. Similar conditions pervailed this mol ning, and present indications are for further rain.

The adjourned annual meeting of the Ohinemuri Licensing Committee is to be held at the Courthouse, Paeroa, on Wednesday morning at ten o’clock. The business before- the meeting is the application of Thomas Anderson for a publican’s license for new premises to be known as the Morrinsville Hotel, on election by Mrs M. B. Montgomery. Mr R. McVeagh, Auckland, will appear in support of the applicant. Considerable evidence is to be taken in opposition to tho granting of the license and the proceedings are likely’ to be of a lengthy nature.

At Hamilton on Tuesday, before Mr Wyvern Wilson, S.M.. Frederick Geo. Saunders, confectioner and restaurant proprietor, was fined 115 with 10s costs on a ehage of selling cigarettes on his business premises on a Sunday.

The tender of Watts and Brayshaw, Ltd., of Morrinsville, has been accepted by the N.Z. Co-operative Dairy CoLtd., for the erection of a two-storey-ed condensed milk factor?- at Waitoa. The successful tender was a price verging towards £so'oo.

“Do you think the ar was travelling at four miles an hour ?” Mr EJul] was asked by counsel when giving evidence in a Supreme Court case recently (reports the Poverty Bay Herald). “No, certainly not,” replied Mr Jull. “It would be had up for loitering if it was.”

In his address .at the annual meeting of the- Farmers’ Trading Company the chairman, Mr. J. Boddie, said that the advertising department, which had been maintained on up-to-date lines, had played a very important part. Although it had been thought that too much money’ had been expended on that department, he considered that the wonderful progress tiiat had resulted had fully- justified the money spent.

Is water from a hot-water system in the home pure ? A correspondent of the Dunedin Star makes the query. Dr. Crawshaw (district health officer) replies that the water in the system would be boiling. The most polluted water boiling for twenty minutes would be as pure as any water to be found. The correspondent wins a bet on his contention that water from the system is as pure as water from a boiling kettle.

-The magistrate who has just begun to preside over the sittings of the Hastings Court ,Mr A. M. Mowlem, gave the members of the legal fraternity a surprise when he refused to allow solicitor’s costs on a judgment summons order (reports the “Tribune”). Mr Mowlem said that there was no uniformity in regard to fees in judgment summons cases, but lie had ascertained the attitude of such magistrates as Messi's Page, Cutton, Hunt, Widdowson, Bartholomew, Mosley, and others. It was their practice not to allow counsel’s costs against judgment debtors, unless in special circumstances where, for instance, it was known that a debtor iiad the money and would not pay until a warrant was issued. In these cases costs were all right, but wherean order for monthly payments was held over the head of a debtor, then he would not allow costs. He added that he did not wish to prevent a solicitor from earning every shilling he could, but he intended to carry on as he had started.

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