THE Hauraki Plains Gazette With which is incorporated THE OHINEMURI GAZETTE. Motto Public Service. MONDAY, WEDNESDAY, & FRIDAY. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 28, 1928. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIX, Issue 5257, 28 March 1928, Page 2

THE Hauraki Plains Gazette With which is incorporated THE OHINEMURI GAZETTE. Motto Public Service. MONDAY, WEDNESDAY, & FRIDAY. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 28, 1928. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Mr A. M. Samuel, M.P., will address a meeting at the Soldiers’ Club, Paeroa,' on Wednesday next on t)l’*e subject of Farmers’ Finance, and explain the Rural Credits Act and Rurall Investment Credits, passed at the last session of Parliament.

A New Zealand record for gate takings at a cricket match was established in' Auckland during the three days on which the first test match between Australia and New .Zealand was played at Eden Park. The takings amounted to £1022.

A prosecution under the Health Act for storing flour and not protecting it from vermin and dust resulted in Charles James Gordon, baker, being fined £lO in the Wanganui, Magistrate’s Court on Monday. Jt Was stated that defendant bought a large quantity of flour last July, anticipating a rise. A portion of it was stored dose to the bakery, and the sacks becajne riddled by rats. Four tons of flour was condemned and the remainder sold as pig feed.

Within the next six months there will be a general post in the railway .service, and a® a result pirabably 4000 officers in the various branches have to be transferred. As £25 per move would be a moderate estimate of the cost of transfer of a railway servant and his family, an.d his chattels, the moving bill this, year will run into six figures. One suburban ' ’officer, who is going from the North Island to the far South, has a total of 53 cases to be transported by .rail and steamer.

Touching on the question of financing touting team® at the Waihi bowling green on Friday, a Taranaki bowler remarked that one of the disabilities of tire game was that in selecting touring players for visits far afield the question of individual means was a factor, and for tihis repr son it was not alw,ays that the best pllayers were included. For instance, the cost to tlio Dominion touring team, which left for England recently, would be approximately £12,000, or and individual cost of £5OO. This amount covered fares, .hotel expenses, and tips. The money was pooled and came from the pockets of the pllayers. Unlike cricket or football, there were no gate receipts to help the costs of the tour, am] all expenses incurred were borne by the players themselves.

This is the roseate view held out by a dehydration authority quoted by the New Zealand Smallholder. He says 101 b of spring green peas in the pod ure equivalent to lib of the same wlhen dried, and that of shelled fresh gre.en peas will yield 4oz, of dried peas, worth t®. At this price a good local tr.ade could be built up, and “New' Zealand spring green, peas” could become a world-famous product. The output should be truly tender young peas, not the field:-d’’ied ripe peas so usually sold. The expert says that by buying young green peas at I’/fjd per lb in the pod and selling the. dried shelled product at Isl per quar-ter-pound', a man could produce 2001 b of dried peas daily with a small dehydrator. am} make a profit of £lO a day.

While arrangements weHe> being made for the Ke/repeerii sporte on Eastqr Monday an offer was received from a member present at the meeting last Friday evening to provide the blocks ‘necessary for the chopping events if fivq gallons of beer were (supplied' to his party. The offer was accepted, it being ireniai'ked that probably no other sports committee secured blocks so cheaply. Late.r, a visitor preset t who was impressed by the amount of work undertaken by members of the committee, offered to pay for the beer. His cheque was accepted.

Sb serious was the congestion at the. Kopu ferry on Saturday that 143 cars were waiting to cross at one time. Some drivers who knew tl'c route went round by bhe Paeroa bridge, whilst others, thoroughly disgusted, returned to Auckland without attempting to cross. Over 80' ears were left on the Orongo side, their occupants crossing by the ferry. On the return at night tihe scene beggared description, ladies with silken clothes ploughing through the mud and struggling to get aboard the punts. In addition there, was all but a riot when a local service driver drove 'nis vehicle through the crowd and insisted on his priority to crossing on the punt. —Thames Star.

The death occurred yesterday afternoon of Leslie Wilfred Murphy, aged 15 years, the, only son. of Mrs W. E. Murphy, of Pahiatua. The boy was injured in an expllbsion in the science room of the Pahiatua District High School on February 6 during a science lesson. He was admitted to the hospital with severe injuries to 'his body caused by flying pieces of glass, and underwent several operations. The boy’s mother is a widow.’

Mr Bernard Roberts, of Haszard Street, Waihi, met with a very painful accident at Mr Fleming’s garage, Paeroa, where lhe is the foreman, mechanic. The forefingelr of his right hand got caught in the lathe and was cut off at the second joint.

The principal outlay in connection With the Taranaki bowlers’ tour, which extended over a fortnight, and ended with a match, against the Hamilton Club on Saturday afternoon, was liicuVred in th& hiring of motor bus, in which most of the party toured 1 , the price beiing £175.

“Tlie, holiday toil of life as the result of drowning accidents shows only too clearly that we are aiming in the right direction —that every child who leaves school must be able to swim and have a working knowledge z of life-saving and resuscitation of the apparently drowned —and our endeavours should not flag at any stage; of the way,” stated l a report presented to the meeting of the Manawatu subcentre of the Life Saving Society. “When we have convinced the Government that compulsory education in th's subject is absolutely essential if these tragic losses are to be reduced, we will have gained oneJhalf of our object. For the rest, we must assist the authorities to see that the instruction is thorough and in accordance with the principles we cherish and which have stood: the test of time for upwards of 25 years.”

“Brilliant writing has no place in advertising. Never try to sh'oyv off. You are selling your product, not yourself. From start to finish offer service. Do not boast. Frivolity has no place in advertising. Nor has humour. Spending money is usually a serious, business. Never advertise negatively. Always pfrejient the atitractive side, not the offensive side of a subject. People are seeking happiness, safety, beauty, and content. Then show them the way. Superlative claims do not count. Pe.ople are pretty well educated to the belief that advertising mubt tell the truth.” —C. C. Hopkins, in “My Life in Advertising.” i