THE Hauraki Plains Gazette With which is incorporated THE OHINEMURI GAZETTE. Motto Public Service. MONDAY, WEDNESDAY, & FRIDAY. MONDAY, APRIL 16, 1928. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIX, Issue 5263, 16 April 1928, Page 2

THE Hauraki Plains Gazette With which is incorporated THE OHINEMURI GAZETTE. Motto Public Service. MONDAY, WEDNESDAY, & FRIDAY. MONDAY, APRIL 16, 1928. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The sentinal steam car took up its running between Frankton J unction and Thames last night, after having been -off the. service for nearly three months for alterations and repairs. On 'leaving Hamilton the car carried 52 passengers, the seating abcommodation proving inadequuate. Paeroa was reached on time, at 1.5 a.m.

His Worship the Mayor (Mr W. Marshall) and the Mayoress returned to Paebo-a on Friday . night, after spending a<n enjoyable 1100 miles motor tour'which occupied, eight days. In the; course of the tour Taranaki, Wanganui, Manawatu, and Wellington. were visited. Ini conversation oil on Saturday morning the Mayor statedthat he had taken a careful note of the roads and streets, as different count’es and boroughs were; passed through. In his opinion- the appearance, generally, of the Paeroa borough streets was quite up to standard, and they compared more than favourably with those of any of the smaller boroughs in the North Island. It w'as also stated by Mr Marshall that Taranaki, particularly, was feeling the lack of an adequate rainfall, and the country was -looking very parched. There was a heavy fall of rain in the Manawatu and Wellington district last week,-and the downpour, although not sufficient, has done .much towardis rel’eving the parched conditions that obtained. Mr and Mrs- H. ECutler and Miss Butler were also members of the touring party.

It is pleasing to record the success gained by Miss V. Shand, of Paeroa, at the Easter tennis tournament at Cambridge. The handicap singles were won by Miss Shand, who defeated Misjs M. Armstrong, the Cambridge lady champion. The ladies’ handicap doubles were also won comfortably by Miss Shand and her partner, Mi-sis J. Thompson, of Cambridge.

Mr G. H. Taylor, headmaster of the local district high school, left Paeroa on Saturday morning to attend the quarterly meeting of the Auckland branch of the N.Z. Educational Institute.

Apropos of the address delivered by Mr A. M. Samuel, M.P., at Paeroa on the Rurual Intermediate Credit Act on .April. 4, a meeting of those interested in the formation of an asjsocial’ tion is to be held at the County Chambers, Paeroa, on Wednesday next at 8 p.m.

A Wanganui resident who recently journeyed from Nelson to Christchurch by service car; was -surprised to find such keen competition, among the motors on the route (states the Chionicle). Between and Ohristchurc-h there wqre three lines of buses running, and the fare for the 220 miles was £1 ss. Four years ago the Wanganhi man paid £4 10s for the same journey.

Before unemployment was so rife “swaggers” were to be seen almost invariably only on the roads adjoining the main trunk railway, or in the principal farming districts. Recently, howev-eir, there have been passing through Waihi quite a number of men in -search of work. .Only last Saturday a “Telegraph” representative, driving in company with, a frie.ndi to Paeroa, picked up some little way from Waikino a middle-aged man who -stated that he had- walked from Wellington with but three odd jobs on the way. He was a plumber and fitter by trade, had served during the war with the 6tli Haurakis, am) hoped to get a position in either Wai-kino or Paeroa.

Woods’ Gii-cat Peppermint Cure. For children’s Hacking Cough,