LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIX, Issue 5330, 24 September 1928, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

To-day is Dominion Day, and is be;, ing observed as a holiday locally by the banks, the legal profession, and the local bodies’ offices. The weather, yesterday morning opened with a promise of a, glorious day, but towards evening heavy rain fell. During the night a gale, with heavy ra'n,, raged for home hours, hut the waatiher. cleared in the early morning. The vicars io# Paeroa and Thames exchanged services yesterday evening, the Rev. Noel Robertshawe taking Evensong ,a,ncl preaching in St. Paul’s, Paeroa, and. the Rev. W. Gt H. Weadon doing the same at st. George’s, Thames. Mr R. W. Evans, Ohinemuri County Clerk, and Messrs Mahoney and Mackay, clerks to the Hauraki Plains and Thames Counties , are leaving for Wellington by tonight’s limited express to attend the iniaugural meeting of the Dominion County Clerks’ Provincial associations haye. been in existence ip> various parts of the Dominion for some time past, and it is now felt that, the time has come for the establishment of an association of the clerks of counties all over, the Dominion. The objects of the association will be to look after matters c'O|neernjng the welfare of the clerks, and to assist the councils in getting legislation passed which will make for the betterment of local bodies. That the, importation of live stock of any description into the Dominion should be prohibited is the drastic suggestio.ni made by the Marton A: and P. Association. The prevalence of fo ( ot-and-mo.uth disease in a number qf countries certainly makes it incumbent on the authorities to exercise the utmost cahtion in regard to all live stock imports, but total prohibition of such entries into the Dominion is hardly warranted. The Department ctf Agriculture is alive to the danger of importing stock di s " eases into New Zealand, and lias taken tlie necessary steps to safeguard against any such possibility. Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure, For coughs and colds, never fails.