THE Hauraki Plains Gazette. With which is incorporated THE OHINEMURI GAZETTE. Motto Public Service. MONDAY, WEDNESDAY, & FRIDAY. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 10, 1927. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 5163, 10 August 1927, Page 2

THE Hauraki Plains Gazette. With which is incorporated THE OHINEMURI GAZETTE. Motto Public Service. MONDAY, WEDNESDAY, & FRIDAY. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 10, 1927. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

According to the Government Statistician’s report for July, it cost £1 12s 2J2d. on the average, to purchase. what could be purchased in July, 1914 —an increase of 61 per cent.

The New Zealand Co-operative Dairy Company announces an a.dvance payment of Is 5d on superfine butter-fat for butter and cheese to be made on August 20.

At a largely attended meeting of th© Te Arolia Chamber of Commerce on Monday night a “boost Te Aroha” scheme was launched which will take the form of a two-months advertising campaign, culminating in a carnival. The idea chiefly is to attract business to Te Aroha and advertise its attractions as a shopping centre for Thames Valley farmers. A booklet and other advertising propaganda is being prepared, and members of the Chamber of Commerce are actively assisting in the provision of the necessary finance.

The Post and Telegraph Department in this issue invites tenders for the North Island Inland Mail Service contracts for a period of three* years from January 1, 1928.

At the Thames Hospital Board meeting on Monday Mr J. H. Lange reported that there was an abnormal amount of torn linen being received from the laundry. Hei added : “Many articles, are destroyed beyond use.” It was agreed that when the staff became more familiar .with the working of the new machinery matters would improve.

Including tihe loss on last year’s operations, the total loss on the revenue account since the inception of the Discharged Soldiers Settlement Act was £1,190,337, according to the annual report of the Lands Department presented to Parliament. The amount mentioned incorporated losses <;n realisation, remissions, and rebates amounting to £699,760. The report states that to help the soldiers the advances authorised during the year totalled £137,561, made up as follows : On current account, £92,367 ; purchase of farms, market gardens, orchards, and discharge of mortgages, £7222 ; erection of dwellings, etc., £37,972.

A reminder is given that the Netherton Oddfellows Lodge will hold its second annual ball at the Netherton Public Hall to-morrow night.

The quality butchers, Messrs EPowell and Co., Paeroa, hav© an interesting announcement in . these columns.

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

The immigration returns for the year which ended on March 31 last show that the total number of arrivals in New Zealand from the United Kingdom and Ireland was 14,943, comprising 8457 males and 6486 females; Of that number 11,239— the largest since 1880 —were assisted to New Zealand by the Imperial and Dominion Governments.

Britain consumes' almost as much be©r as milk. Board of Trade returns give the annual figure for milk as 850,000,000 gallons, and for beer as 749,500,000 gallons. ’ The beer consumption is 19 gallons a head.

It was reported at Monday’s meeting of Thames Hospital Board that there was over £l5OO outstanding in fees, while the revenue was only from £l5O to £l6O a month. Tt was resolved to instruct the secretary to use his best endeavours to collect the outstanding fees.

According to the annual report of the Department of Immigration some 15,000 juveniles have come to New Zealand during the last five years, including 1400 brought out under special land schemes. All are stated to be doing exceedingly well. Five boys under the public and secondary schools scheme have purchased farms of their own, and several parents, together with their families (who were preceded by their sons), have taken up permanent residence in the Dominion.

For 20 years Henri Tourennal, of Paris, has- drawn superannuation from the State Railways. He looked so youthful that he became a celebrity, and visitors came far to seek an introduction. .The railway company, however, suddenly realised it was paying a centenarian and made inquiries. Henri then confessed that he had been impersonating his father, who died in 1907.

There was only one mourner at the graveside of Sir C. P. Freeling, the aged and impoverished remittance knight, who was buried in the Church of England section of the Smythesdate(near Ballarat) Cemetery. This was his neighbour, Mr C. Harridge, who was with him when he died in his dilapidated hut. He disliked modern town life, preferring pioneering, especially milling. He lived in New Zealand, Canada, and the West Indies, before going to Australia. Hei did a good deal of prospecting in Canada, but so far as his relative.- were aware he never struck it lucky. He rarely wrote home. His mother, Lady Frederica Freeling, is still living, and is 92 years of age.

The Waihi Acclimatisation Society at its annual meeting resolved to cancel all honorary rangers’ warrants with the exception of those held by Messrs Bennett and Harrison. It was decided to apply for permission to liberate opossums and red deer, It was stated that an area of 80 square miles around Waihi is suitable for red deer.

At Monday’s meeting of the Thames Hospital Board, when discussing the finances, Mr C. W. Kennedy pointed out that a credit balance was shown, but it should hei realised tihat the balance obtained only by using the Paeroa hospital fund money as a set-off to the bank overdraft. He contended that the Paeroa money should be placed on fixed deposit and become interest earning.

“If every Englishman is not setting himself heart and soul to the prevention of war, then he is playing the devil’s game,” said Archbishop Julius, preaching at the Feudalton Church , (says the “Press”). The Archbishop said that unfortunately then©' were two codes for humanity, one for the private and personal comfort of the individual and another’ for international comfort. In the past years pf the Empire, for example, many things were tolerated that would, not he tolerated now, such as the excessive punishments for trivial crime, and the industrial conditions of a. century ago, yet the dear people went to church just the same. then. They tolerated, as a whole, actions and conditions they would not dream of countenancing as individuals. “Even now,” he said, “we tolerate* as a, nation actions which we would not tolerate as individuals. It is as though a man has one code, and men have another. The map has a code, but let him get on. to a governing body or a town council and he is different. We are often amazed at the sayings and doings of public bodies when we know the upright men who belong to them. The man has a conscience), but an institution has none. Is there one code for the Christian and another for ths nation ? “During the years, I am glad to say,” said the Archbishop, “there■has been a deepening of the spiritual life pf the community. All parties, no matter how they may strive against each other, are more willing to co-operate and assist. It is, I think, the birth of a kind of national conscience.”