LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 5220, 23 December 1927, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

There will be no publication of the Hauraki Plains Gazette on Monday (Boxing Day) and Wednesday, Decern' ber 28. The office will be open as nsual on Thursday morning.

The loss by New Zealand. Cricket. Ltd. on the tour of the Dominion cricket team is likely to be' in the vicinity of £4250. This will mean that subscribers will probably receive about 2s 6d back from the 10 s they paid by way of calls on e.ach £1 share. If they paid the shares In full they will get back 12s 6d.

A Jersey cow on a farm at Taradale (Napier) has given birth to triplets, two mal and one female, all three being normal calves. Twins are not altogether unknown among cattle, but triplets are very rare.

“Tiieu-e is a special providence which looks after little children and drunkards.” One inebi iate at the Sumner Show the other day must certainly have had a guardian angel hovering round him (says the Southland Times.). He was drawn into a dart game, and placed a £5 note on ope of. the squares, from wihich he stood to win £l5 at a large risk. He won. The showman paid over in silence and waited hopefully. Once more the victim placed a £5 note on thej blue square. The dart was thrown. Again the blue square won. The showman once more handed over the money. But, if dVunk ? the lucky man w ; as not too drunk to ( remain any longer, and, flinging down two. £5 notes he; made off the richer by £2O.

The Director-General of Health, Dr. T. A. H- Valiptine, is at present spending a holiday at Cambridge, and is making a tour of the Waikato, Thames, and Coromandel districts. When at Paeroa on Wednesday he conferred with the Mayor (Mr W. Marshall) and members of the Borough Council on the question of the Paeroa hospital. It is understood that the result of the interview was satisfactory, and it is anticipated that cue Department of Health will be making a definite move in the near future.

Since the savings bank scheme was inaugurated in October, 1926, at the Paeroa District High School £230 ha® been saved by the children and placed to their credit in the Post Office Sav-. ings Bank. There are now 260 depositors at the school, and the money banked during 1927 was a little over £l6O.

A painful accident befell Mr H. E. Raffills, of Paeroa, yesterday morning. Mr Raffills is employed as an engineer by the N.Z. Co-operative Dairy Co., Ltd., and was adjusting some machinery at the Manawaru cheese factory when a heavy piece of shafting fejl pn his right foot and badly crushed it. After receiving attention he was driven to his home in Paeroa, but this morning it was deemed advisable for him to enter the; Thames, Hospital for the purpose of an X-ray examination and treatment.

Steady progress is being maintained with thq work at the municipal baths. The excavation for the baths has b®en completed at one end and in the cen'4 tre, while; the other end will be finis'l7 efi by to-night. The next work will be the straightening-up of the walls and sides and a certain amount of levelling of the, floor and banks.

Vehicular traffic in the main streets of Paeroa was very heavy yesterday. With a desire;, to avoid last-minute rush a great many people from thq surrounding district made Paeroa their shopping centre yesterday, and again to-day. In addition, a number of strange cars passed through the borough, en route to the Thames and Waihi beaches and the Bay of Plenty.

A scene of bustle and excitement has prevailed at the Paeroa railway station during the last few days, and the holiday passenger traffic is daily increasing. That train travelling was uncomfortably hot yesterday was evidenced by the number of male passengers who were to be seen in the carriages minus coats and hats.

The Piakp River stop-bank is. now being raised and strengthened near Shelly Beach by the Lands Drainage Department. Fascines are also being used to protect the bank from river erosion.

Before .another issue of this paper is published Christmas will have passed. In Paeroa, and, ip fact, all over the Dominion, Christmas business would seem to be quite as pros-, petrous as last year, although we are still in the trail of a certain amount of depression, as is demonstrated by the la-rge number of unemployed who cannot look forward to Christmas of 1927 ,as a particularly prosperous one. In Aimltjand for some days past quite an animated state of business seems to have obtained. Withdrawals, front the Post Office Savings Bank .have been strikingly large, during the last few days. This is an indication that the money so withdrawn will be disbursed in various ways during the holidays. So far as concerns our own town, we do not think the tradespeople have much cause to regret their special importations and displays. It is anticipated that x there will be a fair flood of business during to-morrow, to-morrow night being, the long night instead of the usual Friday.

At a presentation function at the local Public Works office Mr Thornton (district engineer) referred to the work performed by the staff recently. For months past, he said, the office had been a hive of industry. People probably did not realise that thejre had been more relief work under the control of the local office than any other office in New Zealand. The inspecting engineer had commented favourably on the work of the local staff, and it was the speaker’s pleasure to add his thanks and congratulations to the officers who had so loyally carried on, often under heavy stress.

A certain amount of newspaper advertising is absolutely necessary, said Mr C. J. Treleaven at the.meeting of the Navy League in Christchurch the other night, referring to the approaching annual appeal (states the. “Press”). “One can advertise in many ways, but you must do some newspaper advertising—l know from experience extending over many years. When we have Deen stnigy wi,,h our newspaper advertis'ng we haven’t done well, but when we have spent money—perhaps some people thought too liberally—we have done wellNewspaper advertising pays.,

Giant briar pipes exhibited in a Bond Street (London) tobacconist’s window recently attracted a good deal of attention. These pipes take an ounce of tobacco at a time for a smoke lasting from four to six hours. They are priced at from £4 a piece. But it is not all tobaccos that can be smoked for six or even for four hours continuously. If you tried to smoke some of the American imported brands for such a length of time you’d get nicotine poisoning. You’d have a better chance with our own New Zealand tobaccos, which owing to their exceptional purity and comparative freedom from nicotine can really be smoked for hours on end without risk to heart or nerves. They are delightfully cool, mellow, sweet, and fragrant, with a most delicious flavour of their own. With such qualities to recommend them (and the good word of t,he doctors) it is not surprising to find these brands in rapidly Increasing demand. Try “Riverhead Gold ” aromatic, “Navy Cut ” (Bulldog) medium, or “ Cut Plug No. 10 ” (Bullshead) full strength. All tobacconists.*