THE Hauraki Plains Gazette With which is incorporated THE OHINEMURI GAZETTE. Motto Public Service. MONDAY WEDNESDAY & FRIDAY. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1927. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 5181, 21 September 1927, Page 2

THE Hauraki Plains Gazette With which is incorporated THE OHINEMURI GAZETTE. Motto Public Service. MONDAY WEDNESDAY & FRIDAY. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1927. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The plans for the Paeroa swimming baths have been received, and the bath committee is now going into the specifications and estimates prior to placing the matter before the Borough Council. Once the £2ooo' authorised by the, ratepayers for the provision of baths is available every effort will be made to push on with the work of construction. It is hoped to have the baths available before the summer is too far advanced.

Matters in the shipping line are beginning to get busier at the, Ngahina wharf, Puke, Paeroa. On Monday night the steamer Taniwha took 70' crates of cheese from the Manawaru cheese factory and 300 boxes of butter from the; Te Aroha Dairy Co., Te Aroha. This cargo is brought down the Waihou River from Te Aroha on barges and then transhipped at the Puke. A very fine wharf has been erected by the settlers at Wharepoa, and the steamer cap now berth at this way-port without any difficulty. On Monday the Taniwha lifted the first shipment of this season’s cheese from both the Hikutaia and Wharepoa wharves.

Mrs E. A. Whitmore, Paeroa, has been appointed relieving assistant teacher at the Paqroa District High School, vice Miss J. Buchanan, who is absent on sick leave.

A loss of £15,260 is disclosed by the annual report and accounts, for the year ended June 30, of the Wanganui Woollen Mills. The previous year resulted in a loss of £8203.

A reserved judgment by Mr Justice Macgregor in the case of the Tauranga Borough Council against the Auditor-General’s refusal to pass payment for the erection of shops in connection with a public library out of loan money was delivered at Wellington last, week. He is satisfied that the proposed expenditure on shops does not come within the ambit of the Act. Regarding the contention that the inherent power to build on its own land was impliedly given by the general tenor of the Act, no authority was cited, and the terms of the Act itself appeared to be opposed to the contention t,hat whenever the erection of a building by the borough whs contemplated express authority was given to erect that specific building.

At last night’s meeting of the Paeroa Borough Council an application was received from Messrs Fleming and Son, Ltd., for permission to Instal another kerbside pump in Princes Street. On the motion of Cr. P. E. Brenan the application was granted, subject to compliance with the, bylaws and the Explosives Act. To Cr. J. W. Silcock’si inquiry the Mayor said that the installation would not interfere with the Post and Telegraph Department.

New Zealand’s Small party of Rhodes Scholars includes men who are in a variety of occupations, professions;, and public positions. iOne brilliant scholar, the Rev. Hubert Ryburn, of Kaikohe, tours a scattered parish in a decrepit, motor-car 1 , and his experiences recall much of the rigours of pioneering in the ministry. Another, on completing his studies, decided to remain in England and become a prominent footballer. Altogether 26 Rhodes Scholarships have been granted in the Dominion, seven having been gained by students of the Auckland University College, seven by students of Otago University, six by students of Victoria College, and six by students of Canterbury College.

The following motion was adopted at Monday night’s meeting of the Te Puke Town Board: “That this board, a s a contributing body, views with alarm the proposal of the Tauranga Hospital Board to raise a loan of £l5OO, and that representations, be made to the Minister of Health that the fullest investigations as to its necessity be made before authority igranted for such loan.” Woods’ Great Peupermint Cure. For Influenza Colde.