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

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 5154, 20 July 1927, Page 2

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

As a comparison of the rating values the Mayor (Mr W. Marshall) at the meeting of ratepayers last night quoted a borough “not 109 miles from Paeroa.” On a 33ft frontage to the principal street the annual rateable va.lue was £76 16s 9d. A similar frontage in the heaviest-rated portion of the main street frontages in Paeroa was only £22 4s Bd. 7 Mr Chappell, of Birkdale, has been appointed headmaster of the Ngatea District High School, and will take up duties at the beginning of next month.

The following contribution to ineterological science by a learned and brawny farmer suffering in the barber’s chair is related by the Christ.hurch “Sun” : “Now I ask you why is it the weather’s, so messed up these, days ? When I was a boy we used to get mid-winter in mid-wintei and mid-summer in mid-summer. Tne seasons weren’t all mixed up then. The weather wqs- perfectly happy and seasonable until these fellows started discovering the poles and tinkering about with them. That spoiled it. You may think I’m mad. but that’s a fact.”

A great many weddings have taken place on the Hauraki Plains during the last two months. There has hardly been a week without one or two, and even the 13th was not missed. Tl'o weddings are being celebrated to-day.

By declarations made by the Registrar of Incorporated Societies the Waihi Spiritualists’ Society and the Matamata Orphans’ Club have been dissolved on account of failing to carry on operations.

About 30 unemployed married men have: started work at New Plymouth on the formation of a sports ground at the High School. The rate of pay is 12s a day for married men. The money is, found by the High School Board and public subscription, subsidised by the Government. The work is estimated to cost £lOOO, and will go a long way .towards relieving the unemployed filiation in that town.

The unmetalled section of the Pae-roa-Pokeno main highway a few miles beyond the Hauraki Plains County boundary is in a shocking state at the present ’ time, ijnd even service-car drivers, consider themselves lucky if they get through without the aid of horses. As many of the holes are feet deep on account of the use of spades, many cars have become disabled through structural breakages, and when one ear becomes incapable of moving a string of ears will often be held up. Service-car drivers know the road and frequently get through where other drivers! become stuck, and thus it has almost become part of their da.ily work to render assistance to less experienced drivers. In the case of the Thames service cars this somtimesi necessitates the payment for a special ferry at Kopu owing to the delay occasioned. Representations by the Auckland Automo-, bile Association have resulted in the ordering of fascines for the worst places, but little improvement can be expected until the weather improves or the new road is metalled.

A misapprehension exists on the Hauraki Plains concerning the winning of the Streiton-Pincliess Cup, th - football competition trophy. To become the property of any senior team the cup must be won three times in succession or four times at. inter.val-i. Since 1920 the cup has been won once by Patetonga, once, by Ngatea, twice by Turua, and three times by Waitakaruru. If the Waitakarur.u seniors win the competition this season they will win the cup.

Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure. For Children’s Hacking C< Jgh.