THE Hauraki Plains Gazette. With which is Incorporated THE OHINEMURI GAZETTE. Motto Public Service. MONDAY, WEDNESDAY, & FRIDAY, WEDNESDAY. SEPTEMBER 19, 1928- LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIX, Issue 5328, 19 September 1928, Page 2

THE Hauraki Plains Gazette. With which is Incorporated THE OHINEMURI GAZETTE. Motto Public Service. MONDAY, WEDNESDAY, & FRIDAY, WEDNESDAY. SEPTEMBER 19, 1928LOCAL AND GENERAL.

oTlie nqad from the Plains tq Paeroa is now in good order. . Through the Netheitou. riding and on Orchard East Road the red metal it; not so lively as it was a few weeks back, and skitfe are less frequent. The poll taken yesterday by the Hauraki Plaint- County Council on the proposal to raise a special Iqan of £4971 for the purpose uf constructing roads .in the; Patet'onga. riding was carried by 36 votes to 3."

The gate receipts a,t the representative Rugby match between Taranaki and Waikato., which was played in Hamilton, on Saturday, were £ll7. At the Wanganui-Waikato match, decided there a fortnight ago, the returns reached £lOB. The biggest local takings of the season were experienced when Auckland played Waikato, and £290 was the figure. The latter fixture \va.s favoured with an extensive holiday crowd for King’s Birthday.

There does not appear to be much of a demand at present for the! product, of metal quarries. The Pae,roa and Tir/hia quarries are supplying only very small order,*. According to; the local paper, it. would seem that the Te Ar.oha Borough Council’s quarry is in a nimikir position. A report bc;fore the council showed that in July and August 1928 yards of metal had been crushed at a cost of £124 16s 6d. A councillor, advocated watching the quarry accounts closely, and if the financial condition did! not improve the question of closing it. down should be Considered.

Mr W. Carter, referring to Tauranga. reports fha.t from January 31 Lq dale there have been, twenty line week-ends and seventeen with broken weathe.r conditions. We have not kept an accou-n|t of week-end fine weather or broken conditions, but we think, from Mr Carter’s calculatie-ns, that the week-end weathe.r of Taur.anga will compare favourably with that of Paeroa.

That the usual price of 8s daily paid'by local bodieg in, respect of Hie use oif a hqrse and harness is not. excessive was indicated in; statistics presented to the Egmonl. County Council lad. week, by the engineer (Mr F. M, Cor.kill). The annual cost per horse ’to> the- council w-a* £6O 18s 5iJ, qr taking into accouiijt only the aptual working day she cost was 6s id daily for each horse, said the gnjgineser. If interest and appreciation on harness and the value qf the an.i-nial were: taken into, consideration the; cost was’ 7s 3d daily.

The Nethertan Oddfellows Lodge football team defeated the 'WaikinoGokleln Cross Lodge team on Saturday last by 20 points to 3. Tries were scored for Nqthetron by J. Maloney (2), H. Wright, 14. Coldieutt. A. Courtney, and T. Johnson, who converted his try.

In years past the Ngatea Tennis Club raised a fair sum of money by hqlding weekly dances in the Ngatea Hall. When these proved to be popular. an agitation- was smarted which culminated in the dances being v.un by a committee frqm all the Ngatea sports bodies for the benefit of all the clubs, However, as all the work fell on a few, and difficulties; were encountered. the committee gave up tlie work, with tlie. result that the regularity of the Saturday night dances was lost. Now, once again the tennis club has stepped in.to the broach, ami the first of a series was held la .1; Saturday evening.