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

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIX, Issue 5278, 23 May 1928, Page 2

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

At the conclusion of the meeting of the Paeroa Borough .'Council on Thursday night last .a short meeting of the Domain Board was held. -The principal business was the .adoption of. the report submitted by Mr -M. Darke, superintendent of the Hamilton Bowling Club, ini connection with improvements to the local green. liicludec] in the recommendations was the . removal of thei rose and honeysuckle hedge surrounding the green, on account of'it being too close ankl causing the growth of moss on the green.

The preliminary investigation of the case of John. Horace James Johnson, farmer, of Netherton, on five charges 'of incest on various dates; extending aver several years, is being heard at the Police Court, Paeroa, today. Messrs W. Marshall and W. F. North. j’s.P., are on the Bench, Sergeant D. A. Calwel) is conducting the prosecut’on, and Mr J. J. Sulliva.n (Auckland), is counsel for the accused. The Court was cleared.

A loss of £45,086 on the operation of the Auckland municipal tramways is shown by the accounts for the year ended March 31, which were presented to the Transport Commission last week. With this addition, there is an accumulated deficiency in the tramways account of £83,360. The separ. ate accounts show a profit on thetramways alone of £18,943, as again&t about £9OOO in the previous year, and .a loss on buses of £64,0'29, as against a loss of £48,000 in 1926-27.

“ We Church of England people are very cold,” said the Rev. H. N. Wright at .his farewell function in Riccarton (Christchurch). “ We don’t throw our arms about, dr that sort of thing; but, really, we should brea.k tlown that “ English reserve ” we are so proud of. Let .me tell you the story of a Christchurch vestryman who recently visited Auckland. On Sunday evening he went aWig to the Church of England. There were seats to spare, but as no one came to him as -hq stood there, or offered him a seat, he walked out. Down the roa<| he came •to another church —it was a Baptist Church, 1 think. He went in. A't least three men rose quickly. (Jne offered him a seat and a book, shook him by the hand, and welcomed him as a brother.. “We wa,nt more of that sort of thing,” said Mr Wright, “in the Church of England.”

There has. been considerable controversy in the Press a,s to) the type! of immigrant required l in New Zealand to-day (says the “Dominion”). In. fact, in some, quarters.- immigrants of all. classes appear to be regarded almost as undesira,ble aliens, it is interesting to note that in the “good old days” of 1859, according to the Wellington independent, very different ideas prevailed. After, a rather, rough three months’ trip in a sailing ship the assisted immigrant arrived to find h’mself welcomed with open arms. 'He was entitled! to an area, of land equal in, val,ue to onie-fourth of his passage money. Considering the passage from England cost £2O in those days and the land round' Wellington was valued' at 10s an acre, the average immigrant family must have received some 20 or 30 acres as a. start in life in the new land they were making their home. Woods’ Great Penner mint Cure. For Children’s Hacking C<ugh.