THE Hauraki Plains Gazette. With which is incorporated THE OHINEMURI GAZETTE. Motto Public Service. MONDAY, WEDNESDAY, & FRIDAY. WEDNESDAY, JULY 13, 1927. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 5151, 13 July 1927, Page 2

THE Hauraki Plains Gazette. With which is incorporated THE OHINEMURI GAZETTE. Motto Public Service. MONDAY, WEDNESDAY, & FRIDAY. WEDNESDAY, JULY 13, 1927. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A few days ago a nocturnal visitor entered St. Mark’s Church, at Te Aroha and stole a collection box which is usually left near the door for stray subscriptions, used to reduce the cost of. the new church. It is thought that the box contained about £5.

There is considerable activity in the vicinity of Netherton at present. Several men are engaged in widening the Awaiti drain, as agreed on by the conference of settlers and Government engineers recently, and just below Netherton the Public Works Department’s loghauler has made a clearance of all trees along the left bank, and also on both sides of the road. This latter work is evidently in preparation for the construction of stop-banks.

At an address given in-* Auckland by Dr. Alexander Goldstein £2400 was subscribed in the room for the ’Palestine Foundation Fund.

“It is appalling to think that a football player is worth £5OOO or £6OOO, while other men are contributing their life-blood to the nation at 40s or 50s a week—less if they happen to be vicars/’ said the Rev. J. M. F. Dumphreys, vicar, of St. Philip’s, Camberwell, recently.

Newspaper advertising is proving its essential value to trade almost daily. Only recently the Fruit Trades Federation announced that an expenditure of £40,000 on the slogan “Eat More Fruit” hqd increased the value of the consumption of fr.uit last year by the amazing sum of £2,000,000’ — facts which prove its value up to the hilt.

A little boy na.med Peter Broderow, who lived with his uncle, Mr W. Broderow, of the Public Works Department, Suva, went up a lemon tree on June 30 to collect fruit. He carried his penknife open in his hand. Filling his shirt with lemons, he was coming down when he slipped and fell ■heavily only some eight feet. • The knife ran into his chest, severing the ligatures of the heart, and the neck of the little chap wa.s also broken. He was only ten years old.

“It is surprising the number of people who lose money in the streets,” stated Mr W. G. Wohlmann, Superintendent of Police. Recently, he said, a paragraph was published concerning the finding of two £1 notes in O’Rorke Street, near the police station. Tifb morning following no less than six persons, called at his office complaining that they had lost money. As no one, but the finder, claimed the £2, this sum was handed back to the lucky one. “Finds is keeps,” he added ; “that is-, of course, if you first take your find to the police station apd it is not claimed. And so honesty is encouraged.”

The formation of the first fourmile section of the Waihi-Whanga-■niatn. road is proceeding apace under, the supervision of Mr J. Park, overseer for the Public Works Department. A mile and a half of the road has been completed, half a mile of which has been metalled, while about half a mile has a rock floor, upon which metal will not be required to be spread. Two miles from the end. of the present deviation the second section of the road commences, at Ramarama. At present there are about 125 men engaged on the work, : ’.nd an additional 25 will be employed next week.

The New Zealand Draper, Clothier, and Boot Retailer reports that in Nelson the members of the association combined to run special sales in opposition to itinerant traders when they appeared in the town. A case in which a visiting auctioneer had advertised a special sale of silk goods was quoted. Local traders had combined and collected all the cheap sulks available and put on a special silk day at the same time as the advertised sale, with the result that the sale fell quite flat.