THE Hauraki Plains Gazette With which is incorporated THE OHINEMURI GAZETTE. Motto Public Service. MONDAY. WEDNESDAY. & FRIDAY. WEDNESDAY, JULY 25, 1928. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIX, Issue 5304, 25 July 1928, Page 2

THE Hauraki Plains Gazette With which is incorporated THE OHINEMURI GAZETTE. Motto Public Service. MONDAY. WEDNESDAY. & FRIDAY. WEDNESDAY, JULY 25, 1928. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The institution of tlie daily rural mail service- from Paeroa to the, Puke-Awaiti-NethentOin. district is. meeting -with much favour from the' settlers 1 ,, an'd tlier are- now 62 persons who are availing themselves of the seiwjce.

Several of the- excursionists who made their first visjt to Tauranga on Saturday e-xpresed bheir surprise at finding; such a large town. The population of tlie borough of Tauranga is given, as 2625 persons, or 775 in excess of the borough of Paeiroa. The countj' of Tauranga has a geographical population of 11.880, compared with 8540 in the Ohinemurt county.

A conference of delegates rep'resenting tlie Reform Party in all of tiie Hauraki electorate will be held in thte public hall at Mercer on Wednesday, August 15, .when, the party candidate for-the seat at the cc-ming election will be' selected.

Two hundred have applied for berths, some offeripg, £looo' for the first United Statcs-Brjtain (light of tlie RlOO. No passengers will be carried on the first flight from England to America in the autumn, which is expected to take 48 hours.

At last week’s sitting of the Magistrate’s Court, at’ Thames judgment, was given for tlie Hauraki Plains County Council against tlie following : Victor L. Bagnall, £9 Ils, costs £1 10s 6d ; Mrs M. F. Whittaker ill Us Id, costs £2 16s ; Victor L. Bagnall, £47 11s 10d, costs £4 Is 6d ; and Charles H. Lawrence, £l9 19s, costs £2 16s.

The mishap sustained bv the Turua footballer M. Madgwick in tlie match at Ngatea on Saturday last proved, on exani'nation at the' Thames Hospital, to be a broken ankle. He was, covered by the Rugby Unoin’s insurance scheme.

Moving the second reading of the Mentally Defectives Bill, the Hon. J. A. Young gave,- some astoun'diiig figures concerning the economic burden borne by the public 'in the- upkeep of the feeble-mindled. The -Minister quoted five or s'x authenticate!! cases to show tlie abnormal fecundity of feeble-minded persons,. In most, casesboth of the parents quoted were feeble-minded persons. They had families ranging from five to ejteven chiildiien. In one case the offspA'ing, ■six in -number, had families- totalling twenty. All these were, in their turn feeble-minded, and in -most cases iUftgitimate. The average- cost of the cases quoted' amounted to soine; £Booo' for; upkeep in 21 years. In, all, the total cpst approached the huge sum of £50.000 or £60,00'0 for a period of 21 years Naturally the public beans almost the entiTe eqst, which in tihe aggregate for the whole country reaches an enormous amount

lii connection with the historical battle at Gate Pa, -the follow!,ng information is particularly interesting', in view of last Saturday’s excursion to Tauranga. in 1864 the Maori war was in full progress, and the .Maoris entrenched t'heniselves strongly in the pa called Gate Pa, which was between two swamps close to Tauranga. The; pa was attacked on, April 30, 1864, by General Cameron, w' th troops of the GBth Regiment, together; with volunteers and militia,' and; aided' by tlie captain and men of the British warship Esk, then in the harbour. The, troops, entering tlie pa werjci 'attacked by Maoris concealed in guhrpits and armed. 1 with giln.s, which they used wit,h terrible effect. The- fire was,-so deadly that the attack had to be aban(io.ned with great loss of life; CaptainHamilton being among the killed. The stones i'n the picturesque cemetery near the rtdoubt tell a pathetic tale of the disaster. The guns uspd 'n the attack on the pa ar,& naw preservted in the redoubt. A military settlement was first established by 300 Waikato miiit'a.-who left Auckland on Maj - 24. 1864. The Maoris were defeated on June 21. 1864, and peace was ( declared on. August 6of the same year. There "as further bitter, fighting on January 26. 1867. Captain Cook landed at T-a-ur ranga in 1769 and then sailed north.

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