THE Hauraki Plains Gazette. With which is incorporated THE OHINEMURI GAZETTE. Motto Public Service. MONDAY, WEDNESDAY, & FRIDAY. FRIDAY, MARCH 23, 1928. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIX, Issue 5255, 23 March 1928, Page 2

THE Hauraki Plains Gazette. With which is incorporated THE OHINEMURI GAZETTE. Motto Public Service. MONDAY, WEDNESDAY, & FRIDAY. FRIDAY, MARCH 23, 1928. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Pekapcka Road was closed to traffic on. Wednesday, and will be closed for about a week. The Public Works Department is constructing the Waihou River stop-bank over the road.

A line of 550 fat lambs left Ngatea on Wednesday last for the Westfield freezing Works. The lambs were in splendid condition, and had been fattened on grass alone on dairy farms about Ngatea.

Eight rinks of Taranaki bowlers paid a visit to Paeroa this morningThey were welcomed by t'he president of the local bowling club, Mi- C. T. Mettam, on behalf of the Paeroa and Hikutaia clubs, and play commenced about ten o’clock.

Attention is directed to an advertisement on our fourth page toiday with reference to a special Easter offer by Corbap’s Winep. This firm is allowing a discount of 5s off each case of wine purchased between •March 23 and April 7. The price list appears in the advertisement.

“It is inhuman cruelty,” declared Dr. Mildred Staley, speaking before the Auckland Social Welfare Society this week, “to deprive people, poorly equipped mentally, of their liberty, and put them into prisons where their environment is unhappy. Such people need every encouragement to put forward their little powers of mentality. We do not throw our children into prisons, yet we adopt that course in the case of unfortunate people whose mental powers are those of six-year-old children.”

Word was received in Suva recently that the death had occurred; of the Rev. Father Nieouleau, at Makogai. For some years he had; been suffering from leprosy, and his death was not unexpected. Father Nieouleau was 62 years of age. Fiv« or six years; ago, as a result of his never-ceasing work among the stricken, men, Father Nieouleau was seized with the dread disease. Another chaplain was sent to take up his work and 1 Father Nicouleau bravely went to live in the native centre, where, despite severe suffering, he laboured as a priest to the best of his ability. Gradually, however, he sank until the end came.