THE Hauraki Plains Gazette With which is incorporated THE OHINEMURI GAZETTE. Motto Public Service. MONDAY. WEDNESDAY. & FRIDAY. FRIDAY OCTOBER 28, 1927. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 5196, 28 October 1927, Page 2

THE Hauraki Plains Gazette With which is incorporated THE OHINEMURI GAZETTE. Motto Public Service. MONDAY. WEDNESDAY. & FRIDAY. FRIDAY OCTOBER 28, 1927. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Two labourers, first offenders and strangers to Paeroa, wore charged at the local Police Court, before Mr E. Edwards, J.P., yesterday morning, with drunkenness. Both were convicted and fined ss. One of the offenders, who was a married man, was allowed seven days in which to find the money.

His Lordship o the Bishop of the Diocese will be visiting Paeroa this week-end and will be the Celebrant at a Choral Celebration of the Holy Eucharist at St. Paul’s Church at 8 o’clock on Sunday morning. This service is the chief act of Christian worship, and is not intended only for those who are about to make their communion, but for the whole body of church people. Immediately before the service the Bishop will dedicate and bless a number of gifts which have been offered for the Service of the Sanctuary, and the members of the choir will bei formally instituted into the office of choristers, with the Epicopal blessing. At 11 a.m. His Lordship will hold a Maori service at the meetinghouse, Te Pai o Hauraki, and in the afternoon will administer the Sacrament of Confirmation in St. Mary’s Church at Hikutaia. He will also be the Preacher at the Choral Evensong at St. Paul’s Church, Paeroa, at 7 p.m.

The Auckland Education Board has resolved that all schools under its jurisdiction, will close for the Christmas vacation at 3 p.m. on Tuesday, December 20, and will re-open on Wednesday, February 1, 1928.

Good progress has been made with the bituminising of Normanby Road. A section from the Arney Street intersection for a distance of about five chains towards the Bank of New Zealand corner has received the first dressing for the whole distance. Nearly half the area has received a second spraying and layer of metal chips, and the section would have been completed and opened to traffic to-day had not the heavy rain this morning delayed operations.

The westerly wind which prevailed yesterday apparently revised the swamp fire in the Awaiti area. Last night there was a bright glow in the western sky, and this morning the heavens over that locality are darkened by heavy clouds of smoke.

To-morrow, the train -usually leaving Paqroa for Te Aroha at 11.25 a.m. will be delayed on account, of a bowling tournament at Te Aroha.. See Railway Department’s advertisement in this issue.