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

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 5146, 1 July 1927, Page 2

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

The response by the public of Paeioa to the Mayor’s appeal for funds to assist local unemployed is still being f airly well .maintained. A sum of over £6O has now been received by the collectors, Messrs E; Edwards and P. E. Brenan, and this amount, together with the Government subsidy, will help some of the local unemployed for a few days. Yesterday three urgent cases were dealt with when three local married men were given work on the children’s play ground site.

As a result of the recital given in the Wellington Town Hall on Saturday evening last by Pader.ewski £538 9s Id is available for application towards the immediate relief of necessitous cases of New Zealand soldiers who served in the Great War.

To clothe the tramwaymen the Auckland City Counici has to buy about £2OOO worth of cloth— 2000yds of dark navy serge; 240 z, 309yds dark navy serge., 18-19 oz, and 1200yds dark blue vicuna cloth, 220 z.

During the last couple of days 20 local unemployed men have registered their names at the Borough Council Chambers, 18 of them being local married men.

The following are the vital statistics for Paeroa for the month of June, the figures for. the corresponding month in 1926 being given in parentheses : Births, 7 (8) ; deaths, 0 (1) ; marriages, 3 (3).

the Hauraki Plains, and Paeroa Schools dental officer. Nurse Ellis, has been in attendancei at Ngatea for over a fortnight, and has visited all the schools on the Plains, with the exception of Kai'here and Patetonga, but so far no children have arrived for treatment from the outlying disticts. In the meantime, while waiting, the nurse is treating the children of the Ngatea school. The Paeroa clinic will soon be ready for ooccupation, and unless arrangements are made quickly for Hauraki Plains children to visit Ngatea, the opportunity of securing free dental treatment will be lost.

Objection to their land being included in the proposed Netherton drainage district was voiced at the first meeting of settlers by farmers residing between Netherton township and the southern boundary of the Hauraki United Drainage District. These men contend that they had done and could continue to undertake the maintenance necessary, and should any capital expenditure be required, they could get the county council to undertake the raising of a special loan for the purpose. At a recent meeting of the county council it laid down as a matter of policy that it would not undertake drainage, but would, encourage settlers to form drainage boards. The council’s view was that it had sufficient to manage with roads and bridges, etc., and that in future it would only subsidise the maintenance of road drains according to the amount the road would benefit from the drains.

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