THE Hauraki Plains Gazette. With which is incorporated THE OHINEMURI GAZETTE. Motto: Public Service. MONDAY, WEDNESDAY, & FRIDAY. MONDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 1928. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIX, Issue 5356, 26 November 1928, Page 2

THE Hauraki Plains Gazette. With which is incorporated THE OHINEMURI GAZETTE. Motto: Public Service. MONDAY, WEDNESDAY, & FRIDAY. MONDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 1928. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

An excursion by train to Tauranga, organised by the Forresters’ Lodge, Waihi, in co-operation with the Druids’ and Oddfellows’ Lodges of Waihi, Waikino, Karangahake, and Paqroa, was held on Saturday last. The train comprised 16 carriages, which were well filled whep it left Waihi, but though over 100 tickets were sold in Paeroa only abqut half that number, made the trip. The Waihi 'Municipal Band and a party of Waihi bowlers wqre included! in the excursionists. A picnic, and sports for children were held in the Tauranga domain, while many crossed the harbour to Mt.

A reminder is gjvejii that entries for the Hauraki A. and P. Association’s annual show, which is to be held at Paeroa on Wednesday, December 5, close with the secretary, Mr E. Edwards, tomorrow.

The annual bazaar in connection with St. Paul’s Anglican Chur.ch is to take place in the Gaiety Theatre on Thursday next, November 29. Besides thq various stalls, cooking, and flower, competitions are to be held, for wh.ich goed prizes are offered.

The referendum of of the proposed'‘Netherton water supply area on the question whether the Hauraki Plains County Council should proceed, with the scheme was supposed to close on Friday, but only about one-thir.d of the voting papers were returned. Over three-fifths of the votes favoured the proposal. The thirty-fourth annual show of the Thames Valley A. and P. Associar, tion will take place at the Showgrounds, Herriesyille, Te Aroha, tomorrow and Wednesday, November 27 and 28. Record entries have been received in all classes, and the home industries section will be open both days. There will be numerqus aideshows, and first-,clast; jumping and other events. Hot water will be provided free of charge.

Members of the Main Highways Board are meeting representatives of the local bodies at Rotor.ua, Tirau, and Matannata to-day, and will b e Te Aretha to-night. To-morrow morning, after conferring with *the Piako County Council and the Te Aroha Borough Council, they will leave at 10.30 a.m. for Paeroa, and before lunch will meet the Paeroa, Boirough Council and the Ohinemuri County Council, leaving Paeroa at 1-45 p.m., they will meet the Hauraki Plains County Council a,t 2.30 p.m., afterwards proceeding to Thames and Coromandel. On Wednesday the party will pass through Thames, Paeroa, .and Waihi, en route to Tapranga.

A conference of members of the Thames Vajley seption of the Auckland branch of thq N.Z. Education Institute was held) at the Ngatea District High School on Saturday morning, there being 26 sc.hoqlteachers present.

Good progress is being made with the erection of the N.Z. 00-oper.ative Dairy Company’s Waitakar.uru cheese factory, and it is anticipated that the factory will commence operations on December 11.

The Hauraki United Drainage Board at its special meeting last Friday evening reaffirmed its previous resolution not to receive deputations unless at least ten days’ notice had beep given.

In the Hauraki Plains, tennis competitions on Saturday Turua, 11 sets or 101 games, beat Hopai, 2 sets or 49 garnqs ; Ngatea, 11 sets or 101 games, beat Ker.epeehi, 2 sets or 73 games ; and Waitakarur.u, 8 sets or 88 games, beat Kopuarahi, 5 sets or 84 games. In the B grade. Turua, 8 se,ts or 84 games, hqat Ngatea, 5 sets or 79 games.