THE Hauraki Plains Gazette With which is incorporated THE OHINEMURI GAZETTE. Motto Public Service. MONDAY, WEDNESDAY, & FRIDAY. MONDAY, JULY 25, 1927. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 5156, 25 July 1927, Page 2

THE Hauraki Plains Gazette With which is incorporated THE OHINEMURI GAZETTE. Motto Public Service. MONDAY, WEDNESDAY, & FRIDAY. MONDAY, JULY 25, 1927. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A first offender, an elderly man, appeared before Mr H. J. Hare, J.P., at the local Police Court this morning charged with drunkenness) at Paeroa on Saturday morning. A conviction was entered,, with a fine of £l.

Owing to the heavy rain which fell during the week, and a desire to preserve the surface of the putting greens the Paeroa Golf Club abandoned all its fixtures on Satudray afternoon.

Miserable weather conditions continue to prevail locally. Heavy rain fell on Saturday morning, but the afternoon was fine. Yesterday morning the wind veered round to a northeasterly direction, and it was fine up until early evening, when there were a couple of heavy showers of rain. During then night the wind changed to almost due easterly, and heavy rain has fallen this morning.

Measles are prevalent in Matamata, only 27 children attending the infant classes; at the Matamat.a Primary 'School out of a total of 80'.

At the Waihi Borough Council Chambers) on Thursday last there was a representative gathering of the community to participate in the citizens’ farewell to Mr and Mrs W. M. Jackson, who leave? Waihi this week for their new home, at One Tree Hill, Auckland. On behalf of the citizens of the town the Mayor presented Mr and Mrs Jackson with a hall chiming clock and barometer, and on behalf of the Chamber of Commerce Mr Jackson was asked .to receive a gold fountain-pen suitably inscribed.

At the annual meeting of the Licensed Victuallers’ Association at Christchurch reference was made to the “flask parties’’ at dances, the opinion being expressed that the prevalence of the practice was attributable to six o’clock closing. Formerly young men used to visit the 'hotels during the dances, but a.s this was not now possible they took flasks? with them.

It is not generally known that Aoroa is distinguished by possessing a school committee composed entirely of women (says the “North Auckland Times”). The committee take their job seriously, and down to the smallest details the well-being of teachers, and scholars, and the upkeep of the school, have their earnest attention.

On the ground that the car was shabby in appearance and unfit to ply for hire, the traffic inspector recommended to the Gisborne Borough Council that a license be refused for a certain taxi-cab in Gisborne until the owner provided a. car that complied with the by-laws (says the “Poverty Bay Herald”). It was stated that the car was at present in an unfit state for hire, but after some discussion it was decided to grant a temporary license for three months, on condition that the owner put the car into proper repair, failing which his license would be cancelled.

There was born on Mr CarswellCooke’s farm, Hautapu, on Wednesday (states the Cambridge paper) a monstrosity in the shape of an animal that was apparently partly calf and partly pig. This unique freak, born dead, the progeny of a three-year-old heifar, presented a most remarkable appearance. The top part of the head was like that of a calf, but the bottom jaws-, eyes, and ears were those of a pig. There was no neck, the head being set direct on the body. Tlie front legs had no shoulders, and the tail, like that of a pig, was attached to one of the hind legs. The strange animal possessed both male and female organs. A number of neighbours who saw the freak state that they had never before seen anything like it, and it was an object of interest to all who saw it.

Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure. First aid for. coughs, colds, influenza