THE Hauraki Plains Gazette With which is incorporated THE OHINEMURI GAZETTE. Motto Public Service. MONDAY. WEDNESDAY. & FRIDAY. MONDAY, MARCH 5, 1928. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIX, Issue 5247, 5 March 1928, Page 2

THE Hauraki Plains Gazette With which is incorporated THE OHINEMURI GAZETTE. Motto Public Service. MONDAY. WEDNESDAY. & FRIDAY. MONDAY, MARCH 5, 1928. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A local motor vehicle has been noticed about thp Jborougji with a 192829 number plate-chocolate with white figures—displayed. It may not be generally known that it is contrary to the Motor Registration regulations that the 1928-29 plates should be displayed before March 24. Tc date 10 motor-cars and 17 motor-cycles, have been registered at the local post office. ..

A fine week-end was experienced locally, with the exception of a brief light shower of rain early yesterday morning. After that the wind veered round to the south-east, and the sky became cloudy. Shortly before three o’clock this morning the Wind went farther round to the east and there was heavy rain. The barometer has fallen ,2 of an inch, since last night, and at 30 inches it is unsteady, with a falling tendency. The atmosphere is cooler this morning, and at 9 o’clock the thermometer registered 68 degrees.

The final in.the Thames Valley Tennis Association’s doubles handicap, which was adjourned from January 29, was played between A. A- Ruston and 1 G.'Bluck (owe 10) and D. G. McMillan and A. F. Steedman (owe 10) on the local courts on Saturday afternoon. The contest, which created considerable interest, resulted in a win for Ruston and Rluck, the scores; being 70 —65.

Shortly after 4 o’clock on Saturday afternoon the Paeroa Volunteer Fire Brigade received another call to a rubbish fire. On, this occasion the outbreak occurred in a quantity of blackberry -and debris in the old gasworks pad'dock on'the opposite side of the railway line to Taylor’s 'Avenue. The flames rose to a fair-height and travelled through the rubbish quickly, but no damage was done. The brigade responded quickly to the ..call and got the fire under control by beating, no water being necessary. It is thought that the outbreak originated from sparks from the railway engines. . :

“He was the best-dressed man at the meeting of creditors,” said counsel ip the Supreme Court at New Plymouth, in referring to a bankrupt whose discharge he was opposing on behalf of two creditors. He softened the suggestion by commenting that the bankrupt may have hpd to dress well on account of his business, he being a draper’s assistant.

In this issue notice is given by “The Merry Syncopators” ' orchestra, of their forthcoming “Grand Cairo Night” fancy dress novelty ball, which is to be held in the Netherton Hall on March 15, 1928. Great preparations are being made to make it a. huge success. The orchestra has lately been augmented, and special Eastern music has been selected for the ball. Mr. Les. East, who has spent s;oine time in Egypt, is the organiser. Patrons are asked to be in time, as a magn’flcent Eastern prologue commences at 8.30 p.m., which will be'followed immediately by the Grand March, when judging for fancy dresses will take place. Arrangements have been made for Mr M. A. Cartier to officiate as M.C.

A particularly heavy fog enveloped the town again on Saturday morning ■up till about 9 o’clock, when the sun penetrated the haze and quickly cleared the atmosphere. Motorists were forced to proceed with great caution. A well-known farmer within the borough is reported to have lost his way in one of his paddocks about si/ o’clock in the morning when bringing in his eows.

The Daylight Saving Act is now a matter of the past for this year in the Dominion. At three o’clock yesterday morning the clock at the post office was put back one hour by the postmaster (Mr A. Pellow), to 2 a.m. standard time. Many people took the precaution to put their clocks back one hour before retiring on Saturday night. So far as can be ascertained no untoward incidents happened by reverting to Greenwich time, except in one known instance a persjon attending church yesterday morning arrived an hour too soon.

The majority of workers to be employed in connection with an extensive forestry planting programme which has been designed for the current year will be drawn from the ranks of the unemployed, according to a statement by the Commissioner State Forests, Hon. iO. J. Hawken The scheme, Mi- 'Hawken estimates, will provide about three months work for 1000 men, as. from June Ist.

Splendid progress has, been made with the bituminising of Puke Road, and the portion from the railway line to the Hill Street intersection has been completed. Oh Saturday afternoon there remained only five chains on the Puke side of Hill Street to- be done, and about five chains to receive a second coating. In conversation on Saturday afternoon the Mayor (Mr W. Marhall) expressed the opinion that if the whole section from the borough boundary did not stand up to the traffic, and he was confident that the only alternatives for reading were the Ihot-mix system, which was a; very costly process, or concrete. The new work on .Puke Road has been put down by the penetration system, and generally the road has been given superior treatment and care on account of the heavy motor traffic it has to bear. The road was opened to vehicular traffic on Saturday afternoon, a deviation having been made iji front of the property of Mr J. Handley and Mrs G. A. Wilson. The work on the whole section, would have been completed to-morrow, but owing to ‘the heavy rain this morning the work has been held up..