THE The Hauraki Plains Gazette With which is incorporated THE OHINEMURI GAZETTE. Motto: Public Service. MONDAY, WEDNESDAY, & FRIDAY. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1928. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIX, Issue 5352, 16 November 1928, Page 2

THE The Hauraki Plains Gazette With which is incorporated THE OHINEMURI GAZETTE. Motto: Public Service. MONDAY, WEDNESDAY, & FRIDAY. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1928. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Premier of New South Wales,Mr T. R. Bavin, has forwarded the Gover.ninent’s cheque for £2500 to Squadron-Leader Kingsford Smith Flight-Lieutenant C. T. Ulm, together with a highly complimentary letter ci< their successful Pacific flight. T'ha Premier also congratulated them <»i their notable flights across Australia to Per,th ami tq New Zealand 1 and bajCk. !

From the general election figures so far available it appears that 33 candidates have forfeited their deposit of £lO each. Of this number eight ar;e Maoris. The Treasury, as a result, will benefit tq the extent of £330. The Legislature Act provides that if the total number qf votes received by any unsuccessful candidate, is less than one-fourth of the total number of votes received by the successful candidate the deposit shall be forfeited and paid into thq Consolidated Fund.

The children’s playing area in front of the Public Works Office is nearing, completion, anil a large' number of children are to be see;n enjoying the swings and slides.

William White, a garage proprietor, was. at the Thames Court last week, fined £l5 and costs £6, for a breach ctf the; Motor-’ Mechanics Award, and for Causing false entries to be made in hi.s wages and overtime bqok.

Nine hundrede sacks of biscuit have been ( brought to Dunedin, (states the “Star”) to be ground and' thereafter conditioned as food for thq dogs that arc part of the equipment of Cqmmander Byrd’s Antarctic expedition.

The estimated population of the Dominion, including dependencies and mandated! territary, a,t September 30, 1928, totalled 1,515.267, of whom 774,236 were males and 741,031 females. The estimated Maori population accounted for 65,212, the Cook Islands. Niue, etc., for 14,352, and the mandated territory of Western-Samoa for 43,169. Of the Maoris in New Zealand it is estimated 62.320 are id the Noith Island, and 2,892 in the South Island.

Motor vehicle imports into New Zealand during the first nine months of 1928 were valued at £1,680,483, a.n increase of £255,633 on the outlay in tlie corresponding, period last year.

Tire Ngatea Swimming Club has secured the timber necessary for the proposed floating pontoon bath, and the construction will bq undertaken shortly by Mr F. J. Trevelyn, who is doing the work free of Charge.

“We are living in strange and exciting, times, when magic—so common, is it amiong us—has cqased to count ; when on all hands marvels are everyday occurrences. Fifty years ago the roads we walked on —walked on, mind you ! —were disfigured by nlothing faster than a runaway hor.se, nqr disturbed by sounds more strident than the jingijng of harnless and the bells of bicycles. Horses am] cyclists were then thic fastest things on the road. Think of the. difference to-day, when bor.scs and eylists are cursed not for passing everything else, but for blocking the traffic with their sluggish pace. Cyclists—for whom police traps used to be laid—are now bc'ing carried by those very police into every adjuvant infirmary to be. healed ctf the wounds inflicted by the motor juggernauts of the road !” —Sir Hugh Allan, Director of the Royal College of Music.