THE Hauraki Plains Gazette With which is incorporated THE OHINEMURI GAZETTE. Motto Public Service. MONDAY, WEDNESDAY, & FRIDAY. FRIDAY, JUNE 24, 1927. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 5143, 24 June 1927, Page 2

THE Hauraki Plains Gazette With which is incorporated THE OHINEMURI GAZETTE. Motto Public Service. MONDAY, WEDNESDAY, & FRIDAY. FRIDAY, JUNE 24, 1927. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The. president (Mr P. Williams) stated at last night’s session of the Paeroa Orphans’ Club that the club’s membership was now 124. The credit balance at that session amounted to £l4 2s 7d, and an appeal was made to unflnancial to pay up their subscriptions. Messrs O. G. Thornton, J. W. Silcock, A. T. Vowles, L. Gibb, F. G. Williams, F. Ward, A. Finnie, and M. Poland were accepted as new members.

In cross-examining several witnesses in the Morrinsville Hotel licensing .application at Paeroa on Wednesday Mr R. McVeagh, counsel for the applicant, asked if they were prohibitionists, and on several occasions received a reply in- the affirmative. Considerable surprise and afflusement was occasioned .when an elderly witness .from Morrinsville in answer to the. question replied : “Ha, ha, you offer me a drink.” “Then I conclude you are not,” retorted Mr McVeagh, amid the laughter that followed.

All the coal mines in the Huntly district are working full time, a/nd much sijtisfaction is caused by the fact that the Railway Department has on order 800 tons of Waikato coal a day. The order is spread amongst the three principal mines in the district. The total output from the Rotowa.ro, Pukemiro, and Glen Alton mines, where 790 men are employed, is 2200 tons a day. Development work is still proceeding at the Renown colliery formerly known as Hetherington’s, and 72 men are working there. There are now no mines operating in Huntly, although over 500 miners have t'heir homes in the' township and travel to and from the mines at Rotowaro and Pukemiro by train daily.

The report of the directors of Sanford, Ltd., shows that after providing for depreciation the net profit amounted to £11,377 16s 3d, which, with the balance brought forward from last year, makes a total of £12,084 19s 8d available foj- appropriation.

A decision to increase the honorarium of the Mayor of Christchurch, the Rev. J. K. Archer, from £4OO a year to fcoo a year was reached at the last meeting of the Christchurch City Council. The Mayors of Christchurch have been in receipt of £4OO a year since 1906.

An extra girl flapped into the. Hollywood Public Library. “Say,” she said to the librarian, “I want that Darwin book everyone is talking about — ‘Oranges and Peaches.”’ After a little hard thought the librarian figured out that she wanted “The Origin of Species.”

Several amusing interludes occurred between witnesses and counsel during the hearing of the Morrinsville Hotel application before the Ohinemuri Licensing Committee at Paeroa on Wednesday. Mr McGregor, counsel for one of the opposing parties, was cross-examining a witness in favour of the application and. was receiving rather indirect answers until the witness offered to “shout” for Mr McGregor. At this Mr McGregor hastened to assure the witness that he “did not drink.” The reply prompted Mr McVeagh to interject: “Such a calamity is not likely to happen to my witness.”

The Public Works Department’s two 80-ton dragline dredges have been returned to the Puke. One of the dredges has been engaged in constructing the Omahu canal to the Waihou River, and the other machine has been engaged in covering the left stop-bank, and widening the Waihou River from the Puke to Drain H through the Netherton territory. It is the intention of the department to utilise both machines for the covering of the right bank of the Waihou River from the Puke downstream.

Tin? N.Z. Loan and Mercantile Agency Co. Ltd., Auckland, notifies that the company is situated favourably for handling all classes of dairy produce, on which liberal advances and prompt settlement will be made. Full particulars can be obtained from the local representative, Mr D. G. McMillan Thames Road, Paeroa.

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