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

The bright sunshine which prevailed locally during yesterday worked wonders in drying up the ground. It was noticed that the sun carried with it much more- wtirmth than it did a month ago, and not a few are looking forward to spring and sunshine.

The state of the playing fields: at the local domain is shocking. Mud abounds, and there are pools of water in many parts. It was considered by many at last Saturday’s match that the grounds have never been in such a deplorable condition.

Figures which have recently come to hand regarding the expenditure by the London County Council on primary and secondary education show that the gross annual cost per pupil in 1925-26 in the London secondary schools was £4O Is lid. In New Zealand it was £32 12s. The gross annual cost per pupil in the London County Council primary schools was £l5 15s sd. In New Zealand it was £ll Bs.

At a recent sitting of the Waihi Magistrate’s Court a local game ranger was convicted and fined £7 10's and costs for illegally shooting a hen pheasant. Amongst the witnesses wal a young lad named Martin O’Dwyer, and the Auckland Acclimatisation Society has decided to recognise O’Dwyer’s services! ,a.nd to this end is forwarding to the Waihi branch a cheque for £5 for presentation to the lad.

Mi- F. R. Howard, qualified sighttesting specialist representing Messrs Barry a.nd Beale, Ltd., of 322 Queen Street, Auckland, will attend at the Centenary Hall. Arney Street, on Wednesday, August 3.*

“Owing to the efficiency of the Masterton gas plant the Borough Council, with an annual output of some sixty million feet, is able to retail gas at 7s 6d per thousand feet, which is cheaper than in any other inland town in New Zealand,” said Mr H. H. Daniell, chairman of the gas committee of the Masterton Borough Council, in exposition of his view that the council should make an endeavour to place before the ratepayers the fact” of their own gas -undertaking. “At the same time,” he added, “the council’s price for coke —Is 9d unerushed and 2s 6d crushed —is cheaper than in many ports.”

Side by side in the English newspapers the other day were the stories of two British boys who won success on opposite sides of the world. Joseph Ms’ft went out steerage to New York at the age of 18, one of a family of six. In four days he obtained work as a labourer, and later started a factory for women’s costumes with his brothers. Now, a little over forty, he has been visiting his old home in Manchester, and his school at Wrexham. a rich man. Henry Folland began life as a pit-boy and lost his arm in an accident at fourteen. He hasdied under fifty, after being High Sheriff of Carmarthen, leaving a fortune of nearly half a million, made in the tinplate trade. He left £lo,ooo’ to the Swansea. Hospital.

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

The following vital statistics for Paeroa for the month of July have been supplied by the local registrar (Mr W. E. Ward), with the figures for the corresponding month in 1926 in parenthesis : Births, 8 (13) ; deaths, 0 (4) ; marriages, 1 (1).

The formal opening of the Paeroa School Dental Clinic is to be performed by Mr A. Burns, chairman of the Auckland Education Board, on Friday afternoon next at 3.15 o’clock. In this issue the committee extends a hearty invitation to parents and residents to attend the ceremony.

Besides three lorry-loads of letters which had their place in the triumphal procession, 60.000 telegrams awaited the arrival of Colonel Lindbergh, the airman, in New York.

Three men, first offenders, were charged before Mr F. W. Platts, S.M., at Paeroa this morning with drunkenness in Normanby Road on Saturday afternoon. Each defendant was convicted and fined £l. A first offender was charged with riding a motor-cycle in Belmont Road on July 23 without carrying lights as provided for under the Paeroa Borough by-laws. He was convicted and fined 10s and costs.

The West Football Club are holding their annual Social and Euchr© Tournament on Monday evening next at the Gaiety Theatre, Paeroa. The euchre prizes offering—which are displayed in Mr Butler’s window—are exquisite. The dance music as> supplied by the Hauraki Orchestra will no doubt charm those who indulge in the “light fantastic. It is anticipated —it being the event of the season — through inquiries from outside districts, that there will be a record attendance, which will be handled, as is customary, by the appointed officials connected with the club. To make a success of the function local support is cordially invited to bring about a merry evening.*

Mr Alex. Clarke, of Paeroa, met with considerable ba.d luck recently. He has a small holding near the racecourse on which he has built up a model poultry farm. In order to assist in keeping down the expenses of feeding the poultry Mr Clarke made a practice of gathering remnants of food from some of the hotels' in Paeroa. On going into the fowlruns one morning, imagine his consternation to find that no less than 37 young hans had died. On making careful inquiries Mr Clarke traced poison in the food, and it was found that some patent fly-killing fluid had been placed in the tin containing scraps from one of the hotels, and to this poison is attributed the death of the hens. The loss to Mr Clarke, especially at this time of the year, is considerable.

Members of the Paeroa High School Committee, carried out a further successful working bee at the school dental clinic in Wood Street on Saturday afternoon. The binding is now completed, and the work done on Saturday was mainly comprised of themoving and re-erection of a fence and the formation of a pathway to the building.

The action of the local football officials in placing planks for spectators to stand on alongside the: wire fence at the Domain on Saturday afternoon was much appreciated, especially by the fair sex. Mud abounded everywhere, and once a young woman left the boards she could almost gamble on getting into a quagmire well over her shoes.

“I have, been very much concerned at the amount of operating, particularly in country hospitals,” said Dr. T. H. A. Valintine. Director-General of Health, at a meeting of the Wanganui Hospital Board last week. He added that much too great attention was being paid to surgery in this country, and there had been a neglect of medical treatment throughout the length and breadth of the Dominion. The work of the physician had been grossly neglected, and, except in the four centres, this had been done by house sjurgeons. It was a great blot on hospital work generally that medical treatment had been so neglected. The people of New Zealand were fortunate in the men who were able to give their services in hospitals' in an honorary capacity. The doctor went on to say that he did not altogether favour honojjpry staffs of hospitals, but until times: were better he would be reluctant to advocate the appointment of stipendiary staffs.

It is a striking comment on the methods- adopte-d that each defective in institutions probably costs' the country an amount that would see a brilliant intellect through a university course. The Government cannot afford to neglect the subject any longer (states the Lyttelton Times). Two and a half years: ago a valuable report was submitted by a committee of inquiry that took evidence throughout the Dominion and it would be to the advantage of this country if that were resurrected from its pigeon-hole and immediate action taken along the lines suggested. With a small popution this problem of the feeble-mind-ed and the reproduction of their kind can be effectively handled, but any delay makes it increasingly difficult. A policy of ignoring it, or of postponing consideration until a more convenient season, is folly of the most damaging nature.

A large car pulled up in front of a petrol pump in a small town and the driver asked the proprietor to fill up the car tank, which held nine gallons of petrol (relates an exchange). The filling operation completed, the driver, fteeling in his pockets, regretted that he had not the price of the benzine on him, but said he was a wellknown man in an adjoining city. The petrol pump owner demurred and said h'e- did not give credit. Then a thought struck him, and he invited the purchaser to step inside and write Iris name, and while he did so the bowser man took possession of a spare wheel at the back of the car and locked it up. The car owner was then informed that when the petrol was paid for he would return the wheel. This had the desired effect of producing the cash, and the wheel was returned and the car left with the least possible delay.

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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 5159, 1 August 1927, Page 2

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THE Hauraki Plains Gazette With which is incorporated THE OHINEMURI GAZETTE. Motto Public Service. MONDAY, WEDNESDAY, & FRIDAY. MONDAY AUGUST 1, 1927. LOCAL AND GENERAL. Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 5159, 1 August 1927, Page 2

THE Hauraki Plains Gazette With which is incorporated THE OHINEMURI GAZETTE. Motto Public Service. MONDAY, WEDNESDAY, & FRIDAY. MONDAY AUGUST 1, 1927. LOCAL AND GENERAL. Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 5159, 1 August 1927, Page 2

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