THE Hauraki Plains Gazette. With which is incorporated THE OHINEMURI GAZETTE. Motto: Public Service. MONDAY, WEDNESDAY, & FRIDAY. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1928. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIX, Issue 5346, 2 November 1928, Page 2

THE Hauraki Plains Gazette. With which is incorporated THE OHINEMURI GAZETTE. Motto: Public Service. MONDAY, WEDNESDAY, & FRIDAY. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1928. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

At mid-day yesterday the Hon. J. G. Coates, accompanied by Mrs Coates a.nd his private; secretary, passed through Paeroa, en route to Ngatea. He galled bn His Worship the Mayor (Mr W. Marshall).

The official opening of the Municipal swimming Baths will take place to-morrow afternoqn. His Worship the Mayor, Mr W. -Marshall, will perform thq opening, ceremopy at three o’clock, after which the baths will be open, free fc-r swimming until five o’clock. The public are cordially invited to attend.

. A special meeting of the district crushing committee will be held in the Paeiqa, Bqroug.h Chambers tonight at 8 o’clock. The business will be to consider, proposals made to the Mines Department by the .Waihi Gold Mining Company to crush quartz for the State, and the district mining inspector (Mr J. F. Downey) will be in attendance to explain the proposals.

Duiing the last few days the borough workmen have been busy clejaning up Cassrels Street and have made an entrance to.the public, baths.

The total value of New Zealandmade goods for the year 1927 amounted. to £83,639,571, giving employment to 81,904 employees, each million of products providing work for 1021 operatives. The imports for thq last five years averaged £47,806,100, and a very considerable portion of the gqods imported could be. manufactured in the dominion. If the impqr.ts were reduced by seven millions an|fl the extra goods made; in our own, equntry. work would be provided; for another 8000 persqns.

At the meeting of t'he Ohinemuri County Cquncil yesterday the matter of a local body carting, metal over, and damaging another loc;al body’s roads was referred' to. and it was generally. agreed that the local body causing the damage, shquld repair thq road. ,

Every driver of a motqr-car should be prohibited from drinking alcohol, even in moderatiqn, said Pastor Clark, in his address at Cambridge the other night, because it had been proved that alcohol reduced the visual powers of a man by qne-third. Witli a -motorist travelling at ,a reasonable page of; say, 30 miles nn, hour, it was a seriqus mattqr if his vision was impaired to an extent of 10 miles. A motorist who indulged in liquor wa s a menace to all others on the road, and to his owp safety.

When a letter was re,ad from the Health Department stating that an analysis of the water supply would be made, a,nd that, a charge would be made for t'he service, the'chairman of the; Ohinemuri County Council yesterday said he thought it was part of the Health Department’s jqb, and did not see why the council should be called upon to pay.

There were 77 cattle (58 cows and 19 heifers), 122 sheep, 19 lambs, 6 calves. a,nd 4 pigs slaughtered at the abattoir last month.

Thq N.Z. Meat Producers’ Bqar ( i has received a cable from its representative at Buonos Aires, South 'Ajnerica, advising the following shipments to the United Kingdom for the fortnjlght ended October. 25, 1928, from Argentine and Uruguay: 197,175 quarters of Chilled beef, 44'50' quarters of frozen beef, 50,877 carcases of frozen mutton, 112,950 carcases of frozen, lamb. The quantity shipped to the Continent qf Europe during the same period was as follows: 57,475 quarters qf frozen, beef. 13.913 carcases of frozen; mutton, 3000 c.arcases of frozen lamb.

A meeting of the Paeroa Swimming Cluub is to be he;ld. in the Soldiers’ Club at 8 o’clock this evening. The business of the meeting is the election of members and officers, and l .gc-'.i-eral.

The Rising Sun mine at Owharoa closed down on Tuesday, throwing about fifteen men out of work, most of them residents of Waihi a.nd Karangahake. The battery will also be closed in a day or two, adding, five or. six more workers to the list off unemployed. It is •understood that the rejasen for the sudden closing of the mine is that the electric power supplied by the Thames Valley Power Beard is not nc ; w available.

Mr W. Taifeye, a well-known English sportsman and traveller, has purchased the residence and property of 20 acres belonging tq Mr R. C. Allen. Piako, and intends to use it as a centre for the breeding of pedigree Angora rabbits for commercial purposes.

Yesterday, All Saints Day, and today, All Souls Day, arc days of solemn obligation throughout the whole Western Church, the fqnner for the commemoration of the Saints triumphant and the latter for intercessions on behalf of t'he souls of all the. faithful departed. The Holy Eucharist was celebrated on botfh days in St. Paul’s Church with special intentiqn, and on Sunday next, being within the octave of All Saints Day, there will be special services in connectiop with that festival. The Blessed Sacrament will be celebrated at 8 a.m., and a sung Eucharist with sermon at 11, Choral Evensong and serm’on at 7 p.m.

The Rev. J. Ings and Mrs Ings, of Te Aroha, who have been in Great Britain for some months, have returned to Tq Aroha.- 'Mr and Mrs Ings were delayed on their homeward voyage by the strike in Australia. “At Adelaide,” said Mr lings, "4000 rioters were held back by mounted police, while at Melbourne no one was allowed as'hore except ,wit|h a permit.” Mr ingjs speaks enthusiastically of the wonderful hospitality extended ter them in Great Britain. Fortunately, he stated, the weather was gqod, while no mishap marred their tour.