LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 5161, 5 August 1927, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The gross public debt in the Dominion on March 31 last amounted t 9 £245,850,889, as compared with £238,855,478 twelve months previously, an increase for the year of £6,995,411. The net increase for 1925-26 amounted to approximately £11,000,000, so that the borrowing for last year represents a decrease of £4,000,000, in comparison with the previous year.

While carrying an armful of bricks up a ladder at the Ngatea butter factory on Wednesday during the course of the annual overhaul, an employee named Kerfoot tripped and fell to the concrete floor, with the result that the fingers of one hand were severely crushed by the bricks.

In reply to Mr W. E. G-. Willy- at Tuesday’s meeting of the Thames Valley Electric Power Board the engineer (Mr N. G. McLebd) stated that the Lands Department was paying for the power poles being removed from the edge of the drain on Awaiti Road.

Don’t forget the date —August 8 (Monday next) —of the West Football Club’s annual Social and Euchre Tournament. Dancers and euchrei enthusiasts- will be provided with an enjoyable evening. The H.auraki Orchestra is providing the music. Ladies 2s 6d, gentlemen 3s 6d.*

The Railway Department notifies that on account of the Paeroa versus Piako Rugby football match at Te Aroha to-morrow afternoon the usual 14.25 a.m. train from Paeroa to To Aroha will be delayed until 12.30 p.m

Instead of having a man stationed every six or seven miles along the railway line to keep the permanent way in order, the Railway Department is considering a. new scheme by which the men ,w'ill be stationed twenty miles apart, and will be conveyed to their work by motor trollies.

“The Home of Good Value” advises that they have just to hand 60 evening frocks —crepe de chine, georgette, and taffeta—all one price, 19s 6d.‘“

An item of interest in .the Estimates of the Department of Internal Affairs is a vote of £20,000 in respect of the visit of the Duke and Duchess of York to the Dominion. The sum of £5OOO was voted last year, but the amount actually expended was £43,156. This year’s vote of £20,0'00 will therefore bring the total up to £63,156.

An election to fill the vacancy as councillor for the karangahake riding on the Ohinemuri County Council, caused by the death of Cr. A. D. McGuire, is to be h-eld on Friday, August 19. Nominations close at the County Chambers, paeroa on August 13.

In response to a request from the Ohinemuri Public Library, Paeroa, the Ohinemuri County Council, at its meeting yesterday, donated the sum of £5 towards the maintenance. An additional sum of £2 10s was also granted towards the cost of -carrying out sojne repair work to the older portion of the building.

In the estimates of the Tourist Department the following items appear : Rotorua baths expenses, £l7OO ; Rotorua Sanatorium maintenance, £3,800 ; Rotorua works, including Whakarewarewa, £2650; Rotorua reserves, and other matters, £7200 ; Te Aroha hot springs, maintenance, £1000'; Lake House, yTqikaremoana. £l'soo ; Waitomo caves and hostel, £3900. For the maintenance of the Wahou and Ohinemuri River improvement works a vote of £lOOO is provided. The expenditure last year was £1176.

A return tabled at yesterday’s meeting of the Ohinemuri County Council showed that 53 cows, 21 heifers, 141 sheep, 6 lambs, 4 calves, and 6 pigs had been slaughtered at the local abattoirs- during July. Fees received for the month totalled £47 9s 7d.

Quite a number of roofs on the Plains are being painted a deep blue in preparation for an advertisement for benzine. On this being pointed out to a member of a local body which spme time ago endorsed representations concerning unsightly hoardings, etc., his only reply was that he had a roof which could do with a good coat >of paint.

Commencing on Monday morning, Messrs Masters and Son will hold their annual worthwhile Iwot and shoe sale.*

After a lengthy discussion on the report of the chairman concerning the recent power board’s- conference, at Tuesday’s meeting of the Thames Valley Electric Power Board it was decided, on the motion of Mr F. E. Flatt, to advertise in the district newspapers the requirements of the new regulations' as affecting consumers, especially with regard to the protection of poles and service lines.

On account of the wet state of the farms on the Hauraki Plains some farmers, have taken to running their stock on the roads between the evening and morning milking, and several minor accidents to motor vehicles have resulted. The practice! is not its common as in previous winters except in the Turua district.

The Ohinemuri County Council, at its meeting yesterday, appointed Mr Joseph Pennell ranger for the Paeroa, Karangahake, and Kaimanawa ridings.

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