THE Hauraki Plains Gazette With which is incorporated THE OHINEMURI GAZETTE. Motto Public Service. MONDAY. WEDNESDAY. & FRIDAY. MONDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1928. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIX, Issue 5235, 6 February 1928, Page 2

THE Hauraki Plains Gazette With which is incorporated THE OHINEMURI GAZETTE. Motto Public Service. MONDAY. WEDNESDAY. & FRIDAY. MONDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1928. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Flags were flown at half-mast from the Government and municipal offices on Saturday in token of respect to the memory of the late Earl D. Haig.

A party of young men fropi Paei;°a, including Messrs. L. C. Masters; and AA. Ruston, had an exciting time at Bo.wento.wn, on the WailiE Beac'h, yesterday afternoon. > They w ere gathering mussels in fairly deep*water- when, one of the party, secured a yptang octopus, measiurih'g about 18 inches in length. Although only a small one. it proved very'lively and created, a good deal of interest.

The first parade this year of No. 4 platoon, A.,'Company, Hauraki Regiment, is to. be held at Paeiroa to-riight. Parades jpjp this unit, will be held regularly, each fortnight from: now ■onward.

Reference; was made at Thursday’s meeting of the Ohiuemuri County Couiyjii to the death of Mrs Franklin,.' wife of. ex-Councillbr Charles Franklin, in moving a resolution .of condolence, - which was carried: in •silence the chairman. (Cr. H. M. Corbett) said that deceased was one of the pioneer settlers of Waitawheda, and iher loss was to be deplored.

Tha. prolonged spe.U of dry weather ■has had( a disastrous effect on the grass plots; which were put down i‘;n Wood Street near the Paeroa District High .School. A large number of tliie liquid amber trees, which werei als*? planted in tha. same locality in; Angus t last, have died out, while many others are losing their foliage and look very sick.

Steady progress, with the work con? nectejd with the bituminising of Wailii Road. from, the Bank of New Zealand corner toi the borough bounddary near (Mr G. Buchanan’s has been made.. T3ie section ftom Victoria Street to St. Mary’s Catholic Church gates w?is completed, on Saturday, atid appears, to be a'highly satisfactory job. This is ones of the highways in the borough which, was scarified and reconstructed some months ago, and although the metal placed tin! the road at the time worked loose and made the surface like cobble-stonqs, the placing ofday slnouldersi on the side prevented the metal from ( being Waited in the, blackberry which abounds. ‘

The danger of driving fast ,on the red roads of this Plains while/they are in their present treacherous condition op account of the loose metal was demonstrated at Kopuarahi re-, cenitly, when a' light truck skidded at the eoi’ner near the wharf on the ferry appj’oach road and ended up in the de,ep, outlet dtain. The hood was cruslned do wn and the driveir and his four passengers had a. miraculous} escape from injlury. In this case the skidding was paused by loss of a loosely pu.mped 'Tear tyre while speeding rounc'i the eprneir.

The R.ailwaiy Department notify by advertisem .ent in this issue that the Day,'tight Limited express trains between, Auc klind and Wellington cease ru nning} as from Monday next. To nieej; the convenience of passengers w?ho t ravel, from Rotorua, Thames, Wai hi, Cambridge/, Te Kuiti, and iuiterme idiatej stations by the afternoon tr ains, a passenger train will iej tve F 'rankton Junction at 8.34 p.m s urrivir ig Auckland 11.25 p.m.