THE Hauraki Plains Gazette With which is incorporated THE OHINEMURI GAZETTE. Motto Public Service. MONDAY, WEDNESDAY, & FRIDAY. MONDAY, AUGUST 29, 1927. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 5171, 29 August 1927, Page 2

THE Hauraki Plains Gazette With which is incorporated THE OHINEMURI GAZETTE. Motto Public Service. MONDAY, WEDNESDAY, & FRIDAY. MONDAY, AUGUST 29, 1927. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A slip occurred on the railway line between Karangahake and Waikino and about seven miles from Paeroa early this morning. As a consequence the first train from Waihi to Paeroa was unable to get through. The second train reached Paeroa nearly half an hour late, but the Thamest-Auck-land express was delayed at Paeroa, and through passengers were thus able to make the connection. A relief gang has been put, on to clear the debris, and it is expected that the afternoon trains will run to schedule.

A middle-aged man, a first offender, was charged with drunkenness at Paeroa on Saturday evening. Mr H. J. Hare, J.P., presided at the sitting of the local Police Court this- morning,, and after hearing .the explanation by the defendant and Constable J. McClinchy he convicted and discharged the delinquent. *

The State’s coffers were augmented to the extent of £3400 during 1926 as the result of the successful prosecution of bookmakers in the Dominion during that period. There were 420 prosecutions and 373 convictions for gaming offences, against 432 prosecu.tions and 393 convictions i 1925.

The Government’s forestry programme provides for the planting of 300,000 acres in New Zealand by the end of the 1935 planting season. Commentingo n the matter in t|he House last week, the Hon. O. J. Ha.wken mentioned thqt approximately 99,000 acres were planted at March 31, 1927.

The, London Daily Mail says that the late Mr J. Ogden Armour’s daughter, Mrs John Mitchell, reputedly the heiress' of £12,000,000, weighed three pounds when born. She was reared in an incubator until q-n operation was performed by a Viennese burgeon. Thereafter she was a healthy and normal child. surgeon’s fees were £lo,o'oo. She heard of her father’s condition - when in California and dashed to London.

Good work is being done by a homemade drainwat&r pump on the farm of Mr J. Motion, Hopai. The pump, which resembles an Archimedian screw, is estimated to lift 75,000' gallons an hour, but as the drain will not feed it fast enough in its present condition it is only necessary to switch on the electric motor for a few moments when the draih is full. At Waitakaruru Mr R. Miller has a home-made pump in the form of propellers in a pipe which is also capable of lifting thousands of gallons of water.

The Southern Cross Glass Company of New Zealand, Ltd.', has been granted the right to dig and take away sand from the. Mount Somers (midCanterbury) salica deposits. The company has" almost completed the erection of a large brick building, costing, it is understood, something in the vicinity of £lO,OOO, adjacent to the Ashburton railway station, and has arranged to bring to New Zealand fifty experts from England, Belgium, and Czecho-Slovakia. When the •works are in full operation it is- expected that 300 hands will be employed. In view of the fact that nearly £1,000,0’00 worth of glass is imported into the Dominion annually, the operations of the company will be watched with considerable interest.

Following on representation made by the Paeroa District High School Committee, the architect to the Education Board, Auckland, has authorised certain painting to be done at the school during the present’ holidays. The work to be done includes the painting of the detached classroom, the woodwork and plaster walls and ceilings in the main building; a’so the cover boards, sashes, and sun barges the fence in the infants’ playground, and repairs to some of the desks.

Firewood slabs, 5s per cord ; fencing battens 8s per 100 ; Pinus sawn timber, low prices. Kelly’s Sawmill, Waitoa.*