THE Hauraki Plains Gazette With which is incorporated THE OHINEMURI GAZETTE. Motto Public Service. MONDAY, WEDNESDAY, & FRIDAY. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1928. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIX, Issue 5237, 10 February 1928, Page 2

THE Hauraki Plains Gazette With which is incorporated THE OHINEMURI GAZETTE. Motto Public Service. MONDAY, WEDNESDAY, & FRIDAY. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1928. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

<—. — At the Paeroa BorPugh Council meeting last night the Mayor (Mr W. Marshall) drew attention to the heavy traffic which some of the subsidiary streets in the borough, were bearing, and moved that application, be made to the Main Highways Board to have the following as secondary highways ti Statiori Road j'cbn/ tinuati°n of Puke Road from its junction with Belmont Road to William Street inersection.; and William Street from the subway to Belmont Road.

No fewer than 2500. passengers had been conveyed by. service cars between Hamilton and Auckland in the week commencing from midnignt 'in January 24 to midnight on January 30. This tally had been taken on service cars passing a certain point a little; out of Hamilton. This statement was made at the Hamilton Magistrate’s Court on Wednesday by the clerk to the Waipa County Counlcil.

It was stated by Mr F. E. Flatt at Tuesday’s meeting of tihe Thames Valley Electric Power Board that some dissatisfaction had been expressed in connection w,ith the board’s charges for lines leading from the service lirtes to people’s houses. At his 'request it was decided that the engineer and manager go into the matter and bring 'down a report for the March meeting. .

At the; Paeroa Borough Council meeting last night the Finance Committee reported that the revenue received in the district fund account during the month amounted to £34*60 9s 7d, including £919 refunded from loan accounts. The expenditure for the .month was £603 '4s Id, which ifeeluded £377 transferred' to loan, account. After paying accounts, the credit .balance remaining in the fund was £2129 15s lOd.

“Most service, car drivers are used to seeing other motorists scamper out of the way when a service car apf proaches. They get too familiar-with a road and they think they own it,” remarked a witness in evidence at the Nap s er Police Court. “Whatever may be said of them,” remarked Mr W. GL. Hewitt, S.M., “taken all round, the service; drivers are one of the finest bodies of men in New Zealand. They can drive fast, but they know when they can drive fast' aiid when they 'have to go slow.”

The ye,ar recently entered upon is the fifth since the Waitewheta Sawmilling Company "commenced operations in the Waitawheta Valley, and this week (states the Waihi Telegraph) the last logs from the bush will be put through the sawmilling plant prior to the closing down of the mill. During this period the company, under the management of Mr R. Jougliin,. has cut out approximately 9,000,000' feet of timber, most of which was kauri, for the New Zealand Government and the Waihi Gold Mining Company. In the course of the company’s, operations as, many as 75 hands were, at times employed, but of. late the number of workers hs been materially reduced and the present staff consists of 28 men. After Thursday, when milling ceases, the number will be reduced to eight who will be employed for some time in. dismantling the plant and pulling up the tram-line. I