THE Hauraki Plains Gazette With which is incorporated THE OHINEMURI GAZETTE. Motto Public Service. MONDAY, WEDNESDAY, & FRIDAY. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 29, 1928. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIX, Issue 5319, 29 August 1928, Page 2

THE Hauraki Plains Gazette With which is incorporated THE OHINEMURI GAZETTE. Motto Public Service. MONDAY, WEDNESDAY, & FRIDAY. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 29, 1928. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Members of the Quartz Crushing Ba.ttery Committee. comprising Messrs W. Marshall (chairman), F. E. Flatt (secretary), and W. M. Wallniutt (Witilii). leave Paeroa by this cvc|ing’is train, for Wellington, for the purpose of interviewing the* Minister of Mine®. An endeavour will be made to obtain the Minister’s. agreement to the conditions proposal by the Rising Sun. Gold Mining Co.. Ltd., relative to the crushing of ore for, the public at. the coiinpany’s battery a.t Owharoa. The Minister is to be asked to sanction a loy,n o,f £6OOO and also to, authorise an. annual grant of £5OO a year to be paid tc\ ;the Rising Sun company over a period of six years. 'Negotiations are at present in, hand between .Mr J. Higgins, engineer to the Thames County Council, anil the Public Works Department in, regard to Hie cutting of a canal at Ririkiri to take off the. water which Hoods the ma,in Thames-Paeroa road after, heavy rain, states Hie Thames Star. FeJluwijig on a, beautifully line I morning yesterday, the eondiition.s changed loyally during the afterinoojn I and. about four o’clock a thunderi storm nas-ed over, the town. Such conditions did not obtain for long, however, and this morning, daw-iiiecl line and sunshiny The engineer o .f ui c Thames Valley Electric Power Board (Mr N. G. Mcl.eod) and the manager. (Mr. It; Sprague) were at Paeroa yesterday conferring with the Mayor (Mr. W. Marshall) and members of the Woi’kti Cojninittee, with a. view to installing an electric pump i.n/ the. chamber at the septic tank. Should the, cost of the 'electric pump be beyond the. resources of the Borough Co,unci! conshferaticvi will have to be given to .the installation of a pump driven by an oil engine. Signboards along the roads of Paeroa and the Hauraki Plains show that the Auckland Automobile Association’s signposting van- has recently been, through the district. The work has been well a, nil thoroughly dope, and there is. now no; excuse for any stranger to doubt which road to take.

Mr R. H. Dale, farm dairy instructor. .Matamata., who has been trams-fea-red to Paerwi, was farewelled by members of the Matamata Cricket Club qn Friday evening. Mr and Mrs Dale were the recipients of a very line travelling rug.

The statutory meeting of the H-a.u--raki Co-operative Rural Intermediate Credit Association was held at Paeroa last week, when .the following directors were appointed : Messrs M. A. Carter (chairman). J. Irwin, G. Death, and y. Young. .Mr N. R. RObfCjii, Paeroa. was appointed secret# ryI reasiirer.

Attention is directed to the Ralway Department’s advertisement appearing in. t.hn> ! htsr.ie regarding the liun'ni.ng of a .special train in. connection with the Thames v. Auckland representative football match to; be held at Thames on Saturday next.

Woods’ Great Peppermint. ("Jure, For Cough,s and Colds, never fail’