THE Hauraki Plains Gazette. With which is incorporated THE OHINEMURI GAZETTE, Motto Public Service. MONDAY, WEDNESDAY, & FRIDAY. MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1928. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIX, Issue 5324, 10 September 1928, Page 2

THE Hauraki Plains Gazette. With which is incorporated THE OHINEMURI GAZETTE, Motto Public Service. MONDAY, WEDNESDAY, & FRIDAY. MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1928. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

For the four. vac.a,ii(cies on the committee qf the Ohinemuri Jockey Club Messrs T. Barr&tt, P. E. Brenan, E. E’dwa.rds, W. Neil, and F. Tie.rney have, befell' nominated.

A meeting of the Ohinemuri District Mining Committee was held in Paeroa on Thursday evening. Mr W. Marshall presided, and gave a report Qn behalf of ho deputation which visited Wellington last week to place eoforq the Prime Minister, as acting Minister of Min.e?, the; proposals agreed on relative to the establishment of a public crushing plant at the Rising Sun Co.’s battery at Owl’aroa. The question cf trlbutiiig .and. prospecting in this and the adjacent areas was then discussed at length, Messrs Schtilzkie and Bunfling, representing prospecting syndicates at Karanga.hake, also taking part in the deliberations. It was decided to make further investigations into the position generally, and Messrs Beeche, Dye, and Walinutt were appointed a subcommittee to deal with the Whitekauri area

The query raised at the last meeting of the Ngatea branch of the Farmers’ Union concerning the incidence of tuberculosis in the cattle on the Hauraki Plains was referred to Mr J. Costello, he Farmers’ Veterinary Culb’s surgeon, on, Friday. His reply was very definite, and was to the effect that cattle on the Hauraki Plains were nqw healthier than those o.f any other, part of the Domin’ion. He had figures tq prove it. Tuberculosis was practically non-existent in the district.

Mr Costello .mentioned that in thte early days of the Plains tuberculosis was very prevalent, as the nature of the co.untry weakened the constitution, of the cattle s;o that they were prone to all the diseases going. The yeans 1926 showed the beginning of a very marked improvement; 1927 was even better, and now the district was the healthiest in the Dominion.

The Waikatol Valley Dairy Co., Ltd., has established a depot for receiving cream opposite the Paeroa railway station. Particulars are advertised;

Strange visitors to a Ngatea fa.rni thin week were a pair of miners, small birds about the size qf starlings but hro.wn 'in colour with white wing tips, a white patch qn the tail, and yellow beaks. These birds are common in the southern part of the NortH Island, where they do great damage to, fruit. On the same Ngatea farm there has been for the last four years a white skylark.

The tender of Mr E. A. Chester, of Netherton. has been accepted by the N.Z. Cq-operative Dairy Co. for the erection of the new cheese, factory at Waitakarurn.

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