THE Hauraki Plains Gazette With which is incorporated THE OHINEMURI GAZETTE. Motto Public Service. MONDAY. WEDNESDAY. & FRIDAY. FRIDAY, JULY 20. 1928. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIX, Issue 5302, 20 July 1928, Page 2

THE Hauraki Plains Gazette With which is incorporated THE OHINEMURI GAZETTE. Motto Public Service. MONDAY. WEDNESDAY. & FRIDAY. FRIDAY, JULY 20. 1928. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Thames electoral main roll closed bn July 5 with a total of 9896 names. There are over 9000 names on the main roll of the Hauraki electorate. This is the newly constituted elejctoi'a.te.

There was a noticeable fall in crockery at Paeroa yesterday. A local carrier was proceeding down Belmont Road with several benzine boxes containing cups, saucers, and plates? When turning into. Wharf Street, o,jie of the boxes fell with a resounding crash bn to the roadway, and broken cups and saucers spread out in all directions,. Eleven cups and 21 saucers out of five dozen were unbroken. •

The All Blacks will play the 13th match of their South African tour tomorrow, when the second test match will be played at Johannesburg. Oh Wednesday, the All Blacks meet a Pretoria districts, flfteein, at Pretoria.

It pays to advertise ! A well-known London furnishing hopse recently booked up a large advertiisement in a widely read English weekly at a cost of £2200' for a single issjue. The amount paid is claimed' to be a world’s record.

According to the world enconomic chart published in the “Bankers’ Magazine” q,[ New York, the New Zealander is the wealthiest .average ctidzian ; n the* world. The Swiss is given secund place, while, to the siitlprise of Anierk!an ( s thcms&lves, the a.verage United States citizen, is only th'i’d. In round figures, according to this .authority, thte average; New Zealander is worth £665, the Swiss £6OO, and the American £590. New Zealand Is second only to the United- States iu motor vehicles per 1000' iaihab’tants.

The Te Aroha Dairy Co is having a building erected at 'Waitakaruru to settle as a, cream receiving and bulking depot. At the present time a few suppliers’ cans ato being taken by lorry to Te Arobt\, but the erection of a bulking station, gives an indication of the .quantity of cream hoped to. be secured in the district.

Among the nine successful candidates who secured a diploma as licentiate of the Trinity College of Music at tlie recent examinations in Auckland was Mis§. Leah Newsham, whose parents’ reside at Kopuarpni. Mis;s Newsham is* just sixteen yeara of age.

Two unoffending wome|n, going about ,their business in a Sydney suburban shop, ;a,re dona to death by a masked intruder. A young girl, returning from work to her home in another suburb, accepts a ride in a motor-car. and. is left unconscious In an isolated! spot. A shocked community asks Itself the reason' —.and the remedy. Both questions (says a Sydney paper) may well perturb those entrusted with tlfe maintenance of law and good government. It ijs fairly obvious that the reasons for certain hoprors lie deep in the processes that govern the abnormal. It. i;s; not possible to think of people who outrage. the elementary decencies of life' as capable of being deterred! by ordinary punishments, lqt alone by socalled moral suasion. In, manv States of America the sex ghoul i,s| treaded as a d.angerbus and unreasoning product of the lower creation would be treated. He is made harmless. And. that seems to be the law’s most intelligent way.

Woods* Great Peppermint Cure, For Coughs and Colds, never fails.

A picture, entitled “The Better Man,” which was to have been screened at the; local theatre to-night, has gone clown with the regrettable wreck of the Isabella de Fra hie. It was placed aboard the ill-fated vessel and was to have been shown, at Hokhwg a > whence it was to come to Paeit’oa in time for to-night’s programme.

Twelve unemployed men from Auckland—mostly young fellows- -arrived at Kerepeehi by motoirbus last evening, and were signed on for the relief work near the Kaihere landing.

The saying “A bull in a china shop” requires no 'explanation, and np explanation of what happened in a Ngai* tea draper’s shop on Tuesday was necessary after a heifer had been removed from behind a counter previously piled high with ladles’ footwear and fancy goods.

While he was; working a. handwinch which raises the rope for the Pipiroa ferry last week the newly appointed ferryman, Mr Welsh, of Nether,ton, had his night forearm broken in three places through the breaking of a plank op which he was standing. Mr F.. Wallis is again in charge of the ferry. Mr, Welsh will be incapacitated for a couple of months.

Following on two heavy frosts, there was a decided change in weather conditions locally yesterday. Throughout. tlie' day a cold south-westerly wind prevailed and the sky was overcast, while the barometer wps unsteady at 30-25. Light rain fell during the night, and there, were a couple of showers this morn.ing. At. 10 a.m. the barometer had r'sen to 30.26, but was unsteady. The temperature in the shade was; 49 degrees, and a southeasterly wind prevailed l .

The railway traffic returns for the four-weekly period ended June 23 show that tihei Bay of Plenty section of the. East Coast I'ine continues to be well patronised by the travelling, public and the farming community. The passengers, carried numbered 5207, revenue £1316 ; parcels and; luggage, revenue £l3B ; cattle and cplveo, 2618 ; sheep and pigs, 8388 ; timber, 78,300 superficial feet; revenue from stock, £6344 ; general goods, 5767 '.ons ; miscellaneous revenue, £l2 ; making the tot;a,l re-vehue for the four weuks £7BlO. For. the eight weeks period from Apr il 1 to May 26, 6190 passengers, 17,410 sheep, 4905 cattle, 227.200 1 super- feet of timber, and 10,560 tons of general goods passed through’ Paeroa to or from the East Coast. The; increase 'n ' the- amount of goods and stock carried Is, steadily growing, particularly in such lines as coal and manure. With the coming of the summer months it its expected that the amount of goods a,nd dairy produce will be nearly doubled.

A child of 11, Eileen Franciis, the daughter of Mr E. Francis, of Avenue Road, Foxton, was accidentally run over by ,a motor.-car last evening,. and both her legs were brokenu She had jus ; t arrived by a bus from Shannon with her school basketball team, a nd w;a,s being cheered by hen compantons as she was leaving the bus. She received medical attention and was removed to the Palmer,ston Hospital.

i It is something of a paradox (says a -Sydney paper) that'the wheels of justice shouldi move fastest whe/n the goal is the capture of some petty offender—a street obstructionist, or “snide” bettor —and most slowly when issues; of gravest moment are at stake- Let an accused person be on trial for his life, and the waiting period can be dragged out, for weeks and months. Let a civic contract, involving a .million, be under suspicion, and it takes fire united wisdom of Cabinet an indefinite time to decide what to do about it. Ip, matters like this it is surely an advantage to everyone that justice phould move with rapid feet. Every day that passes makes the witnesses’ task of 'recalling precise circumstances' more difficult. Another important consideration is that possibly innocent persons should not be kept nnd'nly long in suispense.