THE Hauraki Plains Gazette With which is incorporated THE OHINEMURI GAZETTE. Motto Public Service. MONDAY, WEDNESDAY, & FRIDAY. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 27, 1928. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIX, Issue 5292, 27 June 1928, Page 2

THE Hauraki Plains Gazette With which is incorporated THE OHINEMURI GAZETTE. Motto Public Service. MONDAY, WEDNESDAY, & FRIDAY. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 27, 1928. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The local postmaster advises that a rural' daily mail delivery service, leaving the Paeroa Post Office at 1 p.m., will be commenced, via Hubbard’s Road, round the Awaiti settlement block. In all, 58 settlers’ boxes will be served.

There was considerable activity at the Ngahina wharf, Paeroa, this morning. The Auckland steamer Taniwfia arrived on time with a full load of cargo and about q, dozen passengers, while a scow, the Raraitfri,.is discharging red metal for the Hauraki Plains County Council. A large barge named the Kiri, towed by a powerful motor launch, arrived yesterday afternoon with a full load of river shingle for Paeroa- This sfiingle is bring discharged into vehicles and carted! to the site of the new motor garage in Belmont. Road.

An acknowledgement of the power of the Press was strikingly given by a Hamilton butcher named Norman Stanley White yesterday. When undergoing an examination in bankruptcy White told his creditors that ‘he attributed his failure to the newspaper publicity given his prosecution by the Health Department for having insanitary premises. The publicity gven to tbe proceedings had the effect of causing his trade to fall considerably.

The constitution of the Netherton Drainage District has been gazetted by Order-in-Council and published in the latest issue of the N.Z. Gazette.

The activities of the. Public Works Detriment were detailed by Mr F. AV. Furkert, chief engineer to the department, when speaking, in Wellington last week at the dinner of electrical engineers. He s;aid that during the last s'xteen years the department had spent £40,865,558. It hail' built ■railways at the rate of a mile a fortnight, tqtalling 395 miles. Every week of the sixteen years; was represented by 80 miles of reading. It had built over 32 miles of bridges, 270 miles of water-races, and. many large irrigation clams. Its programme included post offices at the rate of one every three weeks, and it had built 26 new light-houses. Employment was given at-the present time for 697 permanent and 600 " temporary officers and to 11.500 rank and file. *

During the process of rolling in •metal on Russell Street the Paeroa Borough Counci’s steam-roller became (irmly embedded In the soft clay on Monday afternoon, and it was not until yesterday morning that it was extricated. The driver was In. the act of rolling, down the incline, when, the rear wheels of the huge machine began to skid sideways, and before the roller could be righted on the metal, it struck a soft spot in the road formation and sank. A couple of large jacks were, put under the wheels, and as they were raised heavy timber, was packed under until the wheels were able to get a grip, and the machine was pulled out under its own power.

“If people passing along a highway saw a farmer sitting at his benches scraping the codlin moth out of his appes they woud think he was fit for a mental hospital,” said a Christchurch doctor (says the “Sun"). "Yet the Health Department is doing a similar, thing in scraping the codlin moth out of the teeth of the children, instead of going back to the caufee at the root of it all, as the farmer does. They should go back to before the children are born, and see 'that their mothers get proper food, and then see that the children when young get plenty of food rich in vitamines, to enable the body to build souni teeth.

Wood's’ Great Peppermint Cure, First aid for coughs, colds, influenza.

It is estimated that the damage done to rolling stock and permanent way by the railway smash near. Pukekbhe amounts to ovei’ £6OOO.

Following, on a light frost yesterday morning, a, fine day prevailed. Towards evening heavy clouds banked up, and the right was cold. The barometer has, fallen 1.2 degrees S\nce five o’clock last night, and heavy rain set in this morning, accompanied by a cold southerly wind. The balrometer at mid-day was unsteady at 50.5. The thermometer registered 29.76 degrees.

The first Evensong, of'the Feast of St. Peter will be sung in St. Paul's Church to-morrow eve.ni.ng at 7.30, when about thirty members of the choi’r of St. George’s Church, Thames, will assist in the rendering of special music. The preacher will be the Rev. Maddison, vica,r of Haurak.i Plains. The visitng choriisters will afterwards be entertained in the Parish Hall by the members of the St. Paul’s choir and the Ladies’ Guild; The offerings at the service will be given to the Chot’r Fund; \

The committee set up to further the question of approaching the Government for assistance in erecting a public crushing battery for the treatment of ore i.S| to meet to-night. The principal discussion will be concerning the proposals submitted by the directors of the Rising Sun Gold Mining ’Co. to the public meeting held at Paeroa on Thursday night last.

The fact that the Government is at present marking, time on the construction of the East Coast railway line from Tajieatua. eastwards towards iCpot’ki should make it opportune for local bodies to renew representations to the Government for the early commencement of the Paeroa.PokenO section. Already the Auckland Railways League is moving in the matter, and the following telegram has been forwarded to the Prime Minister and Minister of Railways: “In view of the decision not to proceed with the line from Taneatua eastwards, and the necessity of finding employment fbr the Public Works men at T’auranga, this, league strongly urges the commencement of construction on the important Paeroa-Pokeno cut-off, to enable the Railway Department to compete better for passengers and freight.”

Colonel and Mrs Tooiner, who have been in charge of the work of the Salvation Army in the Auckland Division for four £iid a half years, have been appointed to a, position on the national headquarters staff at Wellington. They will pay their final visit to Paeroa to-morrow (Thursdav).

AVe have to acknowledge, with thanks, the receipt from the Minister fo Industries and Commerce (the Hon. A. D. McLeod), of an interesting 71-p.agc booklet giving an alphabetical list of the names and addresses, of the manufacturers listed in the recent edition of the directory of manufacturers in the Do,minion. The department reminds commercial interests that it is an organisation devoted to the encouragement of the Dominion’s trade and industry, and is to afford at all times information concerning trade conditions abroad, and prospects for marketing New Zealand products.

The N.Z. Co-operative Dairy Co.; Ltd., has. found it necessary to after the dates of the Paeroa and Waikino annual district, meetings of suppliers. The alterations are advertised.

The total advance payout‘ of the New Zealand Dairy Company for the season from June, 1927, to May, 1928, was £3,541,012, showing, an increase of £420,738 over the total advances for the 1926-27 season. Bonuses are expected to further increase this season’s distributions, but no indication of what the amount will be has been given. The rate of payout for last month was Is 5d per lb of butter-fat for butter (against ,1s 4d for May, 1927). and Is 7d per lb of biitter-fgt for cheese (against Is 4d), :in addition to the usual premiums on casein and dried milk. The total payout for the month is £164',645 (£190,123 last May), and the total for the season is £3,541,012 (£3,120,274 last season).