THE Hauraki Plains Gazette With which is incorporated THE OHINEMURI GAZETTE. Motto Public Service. MONDAY, WEDNESDAY, & FRIDAY. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 20, 1928. LOCAL AND GENERAL.
During the past week the Iccal office of the Public Works Department has been able to find relief work fot several local unemployed married men on the Tapu-Corogien road.. Last week the department engaged a number of married men from Thames and Auckland who were given temporary jobs on the relief work on Ihe PtiririNcavesvlille road.
There appears to be a renewal of building activity in Paeroa at the present time. In the main street alone preparations are now Un hand for the erection of a new concrete shop, a concrete motor garage, anil the installation of a kerbside pump.
Mr A. M. Samuel, M.P., arrived at Paeroa on Monday night, and was engaged on. matters affecting the electorate during yesterday morning, leaving later in the day for Thames. Last night he addressed a meeting of farmers at Coromandel, and is due back fit Paeroa. this afternoon. This evening Mr Samuel will attend the . Hauraki Plains Tennfis Association’s annual ball, at Turua, where lie has been asked to present the trophies won during the season. To-morrow he 11 spend the day at Waihi, and return to Paeroa for the purpose of attending a public meeting of the Chamber of Commerce in the everting.
. The two children of Mrs J. Jackson. of Te Aroha West, had a miraculous escape from death on Sunday, when the horse they were driving in a gig on. McCabe’s Road trod on a live electric power line lying on the road. The horse was killed instantly, but apart from a slight shock, evidently conducted by tile wet condition of the gig, the two children escaped.
Great interest is being taken in the election of trustees to form the Hau. raki Plains West Drainage Board; the contentious points appearing to be the question of pumping and the dealing with, the water from the low-valued land in the western part of the district.
We Acting Minister of Internal Affairs, Sir Maui Pomare, has notified Captain T. J. Watts, advisory superintendent of the United Fire Brigades’ Association, that the Government has granted the request made by the executive of the association last month and has voted a. subsidy of £lOOO and railway expenses amounting to £250 in connection with the 1929 conference and demonstration, expected to be heli} in Auckland early next year.
Intimation has been received by the Wajtakaruru School Committee that the Department of Education has made a grant for an additional clashroom.
The latest issue of the N.Z. Gazette notifies the appointment of Mr D. A. V. C. Drummond, supervisor, post office, Paeroa, as deputy-registrar, of births, deaths, and ma””iages for Ohincimuri.
“The Government reailisec], the value of advertising some years ago,” said the Minister of Education at a function at Wellington this : week. “It is our object to tell the world all about the wonderful scenic beaufc'es of our country. When our publicity first started we spent tentatively a mere £lOOO in. the first year. To-day we arr> going to spend no less than £40,900' in one year on advertising our country. In fact, Mr Messenger at the present moment is on a special visit to Australia, our most valuable customer, seeing wha.t the Government thinks about the importance of advertising. There is one fact often forgotten. Producing goods is not everything. They must be sold, and every business man realises that his advertising department is just as imperative as any other branch of his business. We in New Zealand as a. country have got somethi'ng well Worth advertising ; it is no forlorn hope this job we give toe advertisers.”
Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure, For children’s Hacking Cough.
The poffers of the Morrinsville Borough Council have been enriched to the extent of £7l 5s as the result of recent prosecutions of motorists. The major portion of this windfall was from convictions of speeding .motorists who were caught ini a, trap set on February 25.
That the day of the horse for hawlnig purposes is not past was demonstrated on Monday afternoon, when a fine upstanding bay was to be seen in Belmont Road incongruously drawing a broken-down motor delivery van along the street towards a local garage. A remark hurled at. the man sitting at the steeifing-wheel as to what was the horse-power of his machine was ignored. »>
The Tauranga District High School Committee has arranged with Mrs Kennedy, the school caretaker, to supply to the children, at lunch time at the school, hot pies at 3d each (three ti,mes a week), buttered buns 2 for 3d, soup ;a,t 2d (twice a week), and cocoa Id (daily). The committee has i'p hand arrangements which will enable children to have their lunches in comfort.
Officers of the survey branch of the Lands and Survey Department are at present having permanent survey pegs placed at various points on the roadsides of the Plains-. The pegs, which are of concrete with a brass mark, will be buried just below the surface, where their poition. will not be distufbed. They will be of great value to land surveyors for all time.
“The police informed me that they estimate that these s>de-s.howmen with the chair, o-plane and merry-go.round took between, them £2OOO and £3OOO out of Invercargill,” said Mr F. W. Dixon, chairman of the May Fair Committee, at its final meeting recently. “1 believe that they took as much as £2O an hour.” It was decided, to keep the- showmen out of Invercargill, if possible, during the next May Fair. Week, and the secretary of the Southland A. and P. Association, Mr A. L. Adamson, reported that lie did not think they would be allowed on the A. and P. groun/d during the win" ter show.
Aii iindication. of the great faith in the land of the Ha,uraki Plains is shown by the number of inquiries for small farms received! from land agents by Hauraki Plains settlers.
The Waimea County may'be as near heaven as anything on this earth (says the Nelson “Mail”), but its streets are certainly not “paved l with gold.” Doubtless the financial resources of the county do not. reach to this, but it comes nearer to this than probably any other county in the world, for several miles .of road over the Takaka hills are to be paved i.n marble. Reporting to the council the county engineer (Mr W. BulJ'vant) saiij the marble crushing on the Takaka Hill, was proceeding satisfactorily. One difficulty, however, had been experienced. Mr BuL livant said the marble was so hard to crush that it was wearing out the manganese steel jaws of th e crusher very quickly. Some 576 yards of the stone lias been turjied out. by the crusher, a.nd a stretch of about two miles; has been given a coating of marble., The conuty has an offer from a. property owner of Ka.iruru, Mr Hobson, of free marble from his quarry. Two teachers in one. school in 66 years sounds somewhat of a record. However, such is the record of North Taieri School. -Mr G. B. Antderson, who li ad served in the Maori War, commenced teaching in 1862, and held office for 46 years. Miss Pretch, who is about to retire, completed the, remaining 20 years-.
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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIX, Issue 5289, 20 June 1928, Page 2
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