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

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIX, Issue 5341, 19 October 1928, Page 2

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

Monday, being Labour Day, there will be no publication of “The Gazette.”

A sign of the times tin regard to commercial aviation is the recent registration in Wellington c>f a, private company with a capital ,of £lOOO subscribed by two well-known .business men.

The Weekly Press, of Christchurch, which has long set a. high standard of illustrated jQ.urnal.isnn, is to cease publication after October 24.

The carnival week at Waihi has attracted a lot of attenton, and interest is being well maMtfljiied in the attractions that haye been arranged for by the shopkeepers. i '

For some little time past the; passenger traffic from Thames to Auckland lias nc.t been of great proportions, anjl this has decided the Northern Steiaynship Company to take off the s.s. Rangitoto from the ThamesAuckland run, to take effect from Wednesday next. The Rangitoto will be replaced by the s.s. Wajipu.

“Summer-time” has, been accepted very quietly on the- Hauraki Plains, and is being generally observed. The exception is the Ngatea butter factory, where standard time jvith lepal variations. is being observed, despite the fact that suppliers and c,artage contractors are working by the advanced time.

The reef kncjwn .a® the Morris iqtle was, a few days ago, cut in the drive which is being made by the Imperial Gold Mining Co. The manager reports being 2ft 6in'in the reef, with no hanging walls, yet visible. Very encouraging results have befen shown by dish prospects, but it will be several d;ays befc-re anything definite can be dec.ideil. The stone, however, is of a very promising nature, and shows a plentiful supply of sulphide veins, and is in a good class of country. This reef was divined on the surface, and was cut within a few feet of the measurement roughly taken by A tape-measure from tlie surface.

The Associated Chambers C|f Commerce :a,t Wellington passed a remit asking that legislation should be introduced to, provide for the reversion to penny stamp duty on cheques and receipts, instead of twopenc.e as at present. It was, stated that the twopenny stamp d'uty on, cheques produced £181,193, and .the receipts approximately £l2oi,ooo', lif if was reduced to a penny it would inake a difference <?f a.bout £150.000. It was pointed out that New Zealand seemed to be alone in demanding twopenny Stamps en cheques and receipts.

“Is not this age of qurs careless of intellectual achievements while it gives too much hero worship to. -■ motet- experts who risk their lives On long-distan;ce flights ; to plump ladies who grease their bodiejs, and swim an awfully long Way; to chunk-headed lads who can hit a ball further than, mast others or give a quick upper-<cut to the jowl of a pugilist;; to any tennis champion who calls himself a ll Omateur but devotes the hours, of sunlight to a game which was; once played more prettily by ladies in. bustlqs, and to rec.ord-br.eahers off all kinds who have some special quality of nerve, or wind, or muscle, ’or cardiac action ? That’s the most! unpopular question that a ny writer could ask in cold print,” says Sir Philip G'iW>s, •in the “New York Times.”

Owing to the exceptionally heavy rain which has fallen apdi t,he uncertainty qf the weather for towmorrttw, the Paelroa Lawn Tennis Club has decided to postpone its opening until Monday afternoon at 2 o’clock.

Mr E. A. Buttensihnw, Minister of Public, Works for, New South Wales, says the; Sydney 'Harbour Bridge ha® already cost £3,500,000, and will as much again before it is completed.

A friendly rifle match will takq place at Wai'hi on Labour Day between the Waihi, Thames, and Paei’oa clubs.

An effort is being made to re-estab-lish the Katikati Agricultural show, which was, until a few yeajis ago, a flourishing concern and a very popular fixture in that district.

The summer time-table fen the New Zealand railways will come into, operation on December 2. Opi that day the daylight limited express between Auckland Wellington will be reintroduced', commencing its running ij, fortnight earlier than last year. There should be general gatisfactjioii in the decision of the Railway Depart; meat; to abolish all restrictions ip' the; reservation of seat® on the expresses.

No less than eleven members of the Waihi Volunteer Fire Brigade declared themselves “ojn strike” as a protest against the appointment of a deputy-superintendent by the Fire Board. ‘

Mr A. M. Samuel will give a political address at Turua to-night, Kerepeehi tomorrow afternoon, Wharepoa to-morrow evening, and Paeroa on Tuesday evening; next.

Mr R, Joughiii,, who has for the last thirty years been a. resident of Waihi, leaves shortly with Uns wife and family foz America, where he. intends making his home.

For selling'light-weight bread Mrs Rose Lilian Ford was fined £3 Spd •costs at the Magi's-tratefs Cc ; urt at Waihi. The magisrate, Mr F. W. Pla.tls, said it was a baker’s duty to supply full-weight bread, and to fail to do. s’o was a serious offence upijei’ the Act. in, the present da.se he would accept the explanation that the deficiency was, more: the result of an accident than anything else.

The Netherbcn Church of England sale of work is to be held in theNeth•erto.n Hall on Thursday, Oictojber 25. The function will be .openejd by Mr A. M. Samuel, M. P., at 2 p.m.

. Mr C. R. Petrie, official Labqur candidate for Ha.ur.aki, addressed a .meeting at Pipiroa c ; n Tuiesday evening, and was given an attejntive hearing and a vote of thanks. On Wednesday evening he .spoke at Waitakaruru, where; Mr C. W. Harris presided over, a good attendance. The candidate was given a vote o/ thanks, ali'id confidence was expre,ssed in Ihis ability to represent the district if returned to Parliament.

The Graf Zeppelin, which iha® just arrived in America, from Germany, is. silver in colcjur anid twice the size of th e largest air raiders which used to come from Germany to England, like thieves in the; night, drop fiheir bombs, and depart. The vessel is marked LZI27. It crossed to England prior to the main trip, and was thus the fir,st Zeppelin tc ; pass over British territory since the war.

The Com,mis®io.nier of Taxes dnaws the attention, Ojf taxpayers to the notification appearing in to-day’ s issue that the due date of payment ojf Landtax for the current year is on Wednesday, November 7, 1928, and that the demands, will be posted on or about October 31.

The exhibits in ,tl>e, Hairdressers’ Show (says a London cable) indicate that women will definitely have hair slightly longer, and wa.vy instead of straight, thus sounding the deathknell of tlie hQyish girls’ Eton crops. Twelve million women yearly wave their hair, compared with 500 in 1908. One hairdressing establishment is capitalised at £1,000,000.

Sir Hugh Allen, Director cp the Royal College of Music, presiding at New College;, Oxford, seventh shimmer course in music-teaching, said : “The human machine nowadays runs sc; fast that it is difficult to kpow how to stop it, and the consequence- is that we feel we ahve to keep gcllng, or else there will be some disaster. But sooner or. later, if we go on at this rate., there will be a eatas.rophe. We are. not ■making any greater headway throiigh it, for we' are sq engrossed with speed that, we cannot stop to thinlk and cannot get down to bedrock. We are all like the present-day motorist's, w ho do. 100 miles in no time, and l then ,was,te time at the iQther, end tatkipg about the terrific, speed they go.t up and the narrow shaves they had. But the motorist sees less in his 100 miles than the walker sees in one. In my young days we had more t;ime to' thinlk than in these days of short cuts. Short cuts are invariably a; long way round in the end:, and usually eind in disaster, particularly where education is concerned.”

Somehow smoking seems to fit in with all moods. If a fellow is feeling hipped as the result of “backing .the wrong ’un,” pr having a difference ot opinion with his boss or anything like that, he flies for consolation to tobacco. If, on the other hand, he had had a bit of luck —been remembered in somebody’is will, pr haff a “rise,” for and he pulls it out and lights up. instance —his first thought is his pipe, The great thing is to see your baccy is good and does not reek with nicotine like so many of those imported brands. It’s the nicotine that causes all the trouble. About the purest tobaccos' are those grown in New Zealand. They contain only a little nicotine —that’s why they may be smoked all the time. without doing anj' damage to your constitution. And they are famous for flavour and fragrance. Ask your tobacconist for Riverhead Gold, mild; Navy Cut (Bulldog), medium ; pr Cut Plug No. 10 ((Bullshead), full ; You can’t go wrong with these brands. They arc all toasted.*