THE Hauraki Plains Gazette With which is incorporated THE OHINEMURI GAZETTE. Motto Public Service. MONDAY. WEDNESDAY. & FRIDAY. MONDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1927. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 5200, 7 November 1927, Page 2

THE Hauraki Plains Gazette With which is incorporated THE OHINEMURI GAZETTE. Motto Public Service. MONDAY. WEDNESDAY. & FRIDAY. MONDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1927. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Summertime Act, which commenced at 2 o’clock yesterday morning, was quietly accepted by the local residents, and no inconvenience has been caused. The majority of people took the precaution to advance, their timepieces one hour before, retiring on Saturday night. The local portmaster (Mr W. E. Ward) had the unenviable task of rising yesterday morning and in the presence of a witness advanced the post office clocks 60 minutes. In a few days the alteration in the time will have become a custom. This morning dawned with an overcast sky, and the joy and value of being out of bed an hour earlier was not felt to advantage. So far as can be ascertained the, majority of borough residents are in favour of the measure, and are looking forward to the long evening after the day’s regular routine.

His Lordship the Bishop of the. Diocese, will be in Paeroa to-night ami will administer the Sacrament of Confirmation to a considerable number of candidates in St. Paul’s Church at 8 o’clock. The bishop will be welcomed by the parishioners after the service in the Parish Hall, and tho?e who are present at the service are invited to take this opportunity of meeting His Lordship socially.

A taxi owned and driven by Mr H. Jowsey, of Waitakaruru, and a Ford car owned and driven by Mr W. Burduss, also of Waitakaruru, collided on the Boom Road late on Saturday evening. It appears that Jowsey was returning to Waitakaruru and Burdu.'»s was driving home from the pictures. His car had but one, light, which probably explains the collision. Both cars were badly smashed, and tlie taxi was run into the edep roadside drain, from where it was removed on Sunday morning. Neither driver was injured.

During the 1926 season 53 Jersey cows in the junior two-yaar-old class gained certificates of record, their average production being 507.221 b of butter-fat, while 13 Jerseys in the senior two-year-old class during the same period produced an average of 605.821 b of butter-fat.

Colonel Cl/arles Lindbergh’s chief secretarial aide, Commander Fitzlugh Green, has made public the recently completed cataloguing of the popular flier’s mail. He stated that Lindbergh had received 3,500,000 letters and 100,(100 /telegrams. Business offois totalled £1,400',000. One was an offer of £200,000' by a motion picture corporation if he would be photographed in an actual marriage ceremony with any girl he choofe to we I. There were several thousand proposals of marriage and three invitations to join in an attempt to reach th© moon via skyrockets. About 14,000 persons sent the aviator gifts and about 500 “ close relatives ” asked for money. Letters from women far outnumbered those from men. Over £2OOO in stamps were enclosed in letters for return postage.

The, Ngatea Public Hall Society has remitted its charges, for the concert given recently by the Turua Concert Party at Ngatea, as a benefit to Mr Leo. Cottar, and as there was practically no other expenses, the injured footballer will receive over £lO.

Th© Tuma school library benefited to the extent of over £23 as the result of a ball given last month by a party of Turua folk terming themselves the “Originals.”