THE Hauraki Plains Gazette. With which is Incorporated THE OHINEMURI GAZETTE. Motto Public Service. MONDAY. WEDNESDAY. & FRIDAY. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1928. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIX, Issue 5325, 12 September 1928, Page 2

THE Hauraki Plains Gazette. With which is Incorporated THE OHINEMURI GAZETTE. Motto Public Service. MONDAY. WEDNESDAY. & FRIDAY. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1928. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Mi- C. W. Garrard, senior Inspector cl Schools, and inspector., G. H. Plummer and M. McMurtrie' have been visiting .the local high school during this wec.k. it is pleasing to note that twenty pupils were granted senior, free places this year, as compared with eight suoce.sfui dries last year. At the Police Court yesterday morning, before Mr 11. J. Hare. J.P., Khaiuct'. Khan, charged with being drunk while, in charge of n. horse, was convicted and fined £2 10s. A Maori, Sid Ngatgi, charged witli the theft o,f a rug from the Brian Born Hotel. Thames, on Monday last, wa , rcinantled to appear at Tha.ines on the 13th instant. The gate takings at the MorrinsvilU v. Thames Peace Cup match la.st Saturday amounted to £ll6. At ;he meeting of the Thames Ho - pital Board on Monday it was decided to place on reeo.rd the board’s appreciation of the long and faithful service rendered by the late Engineer, Mr A- So.niiner.vilie. The. chairman said that prior to his death Mr Somerville had been employed by the ! ard •for twelve years and had given good service. On a, run from Melbourne to Launceston oil' May 5 Bert Hin;kler took 50 specially printed cQpies of the Sun; News Pictorial and delivered them in Tasmania four hours after leaving Melbourne. This was the first aerial delivery cf newspapers aer.ois Bass Strait, which the Federal Government' intends to subsidise; The eojpiejs of the Sun News Pictorial were sold at from 5s to 10s each, .the proceeds being devoted to charity. The Palmerston Nqrth Operatic Society has been rehearsing “Katinka” for some time, but at a meeting of the committee last week it was decided! to abandon the production owing; tc t a lack of suitable voices for the principal parts. Reference to the death within the past month of Mr George Horn, who at ope time had served on the Thames Ho pita'l Board as the representative of the Ohinemuri County, was made by the chairman. Mr W. E. Hale, at Monday’s meeting o : f the board. Mr Hale said that he. was a member at the same tijne as Mr Horn, and had found that he had given the same care aiyd earnestness to the affairs of the board as to all his other duties. Members stoo.d in silence to carry a vote, < f condolence with the late Mr. Horn’s wiciqw and family. More than 2500 feats —a record'for Auckland —were sold within three he tn's when, the box plan opened for the. Auckland season of the Gonsalez Italian Grand Opera Company. Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure, For Influenza Colds.