THE Hauraki Plains Gazette With which is incorporated THE OHINEMURI GAZETTE. Motto Public Service. MONDAY, WEDNESDAY, & FRIDAY. WEDNESDAY, JULY 4, 1928. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIX, Issue 5295, 4 July 1928, Page 2

THE Hauraki Plains Gazette With which is incorporated THE OHINEMURI GAZETTE. Motto Public Service. MONDAY, WEDNESDAY, & FRIDAY. WEDNESDAY, JULY 4, 1928. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

During, the early stages of the Paeroa versus Waihi football match in the Sharebrokers’ Cup competition at Waihi on Saturday last. a. Paeroa player, J. Douglas, an employee of the Post and Telegraph Department, had the misfortune to sustain a fractured left collarbone. He was conveyed to the Waihi Hospital, where- he received surgical attention, afterwards returning w’th tile team to Paeroa.

As the result of a collision with a motor lorry on Puke Road, Paeroa, on May 23 last Mr C. Glover, who was riding a motor cycle at the time, of the collison, sustained a fractured right leg, and has since had the limb .amputated at the Thames Hospital, where he has been an inmate since tire accident. Mr Glover, who resides at Paeroa, was employed by the Public Works Department at the Puke.

The following vital statistics for Paeroa for the month of June have been supplied by the local registrar, Mr A. Follow, the figures for the corresponding month in 1927 being given in parentheses : Births, 8 (7); deaths, 1 (1) ; m arriageSp 2 (3).

By Ordcr-in-Council published i» the latest issue of the N.Z. Gazette the general roll in every electoral district closes to.morr.ow, July 5.

More of the Turua Town Board’s footpaths; are to be treated with bitumen, following tlie success of the exper’mental strip southwarfl- from the post office. Six drums of the special bitumen, which can be applied without heating., arrived for the board last week.

Hanging has no terrors for the natives of Ceylon. They are fatalistic and believe that after death they return to the earth in another form. Hence life is cheap and murder common on the island. What the- native does object to, however, is the lash, which is generally orclerofl by the magistrates for serious misdemeanours. These facts were mentioned by Rotarian R. W. D. Robertson in an address he gave to the New Plymouth Rotary Club.

A request for information concerning the prospects of a start beng made on the construction of the railway between Pokeno and Paeroa was made in the Hous© of Representatives last week by Mr A. M. Samuel He pointed out that the Waihou and Ohinemuri Rivers Improvement Scheme was nearing completion,, and the staff, equipment, and organisation on that work woulfl- be available for the Pokeno.Paeroa railway connection. The Prime M’nistcr. Mr Coates, replied that the Railway Department was now preparing statistics and other information for the advice of the Government consequent on the completion of the East Coast extension to Taneatua, and as to rearrangements of service which might be necessary. Until the inquiries were completed he could not say whether the Pokeno line would be started.

Attention is directed to the Railway Department’s advertisement appearing ip- this issue regarding the running of a special Wain, in connection with the Thames v. Paeroa representative football match at Thames on Saturday.