LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIX, Issue 5364, 14 December 1928, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Suppliers to the N.Z. Dairy Co. will be in good humour for. Christmas, for the company is paying out for November supply at the rate qf Is 5d for butter and Is 6d for cheese. This payout is higher than was expected, apd, coming for the flush, month of the year, is very satisfactory.

A vote of condolence was passed at the Borough Council meeting, last night to Dr. Smith in his bereavement. In moving the resolution the Mayoy said that the council could never forget what the doctor hadidohe for the inhabitants of the borough, especially in the year of the influenza epidemic. He threw himself wholeheartedly into the work, and only those who had worked with him knew the great sacrifice he made.

The following questions were asked in the House of Representatives on Tuesday by Mr A- M. Samuel, member for Thames : “Will the Minister of Pensions carry out the promise made by the late Acting-Minister, of Pensions to bring about the reciprocal agreement with the Governments of other Dominions and Great Britain regarding old age and widows’ pensions ? Will the Minister of Pensions carry out the promise of the late Prime Minister to have legislation introduced which will provide a pension for a woman with an invalid husband ?”

The funeral of the late Thelma Dent, which took place yesterday, was very impressive. Four of her classmates were selected as pall-bearers, and the rest of her class-mates, top gether with children in other standards, marched in procession from her late home until they entered the Methodist Church, where a short service was held. The cortege was a large and sympathetic one, the last rites being conducted by the Rev. W. B. Pickering.

“We have now come to. the conclusion of another, year,” remarked Cr. Edwards when, on behalf of the co.uncil, he extended to the Mayor (Mr W. Marshall) and Mrs Marshall the best wishes of the council. Ip replying, the Mayor thanked the council on behalf of Mrs Marshall and himself, and said that the past year had been the most pleasant o,ne since he had been in office. For one reason, he had seen many of his schemes consummated ; but the greatest joy was the whole-hearted confidence and hearty goodwill of every councillor ip the work the council was engaged' upon. There was still a lot of work to be dope, but he hoped to. have the works in hand cleaned up by the end of the financial year.

A stableboy named Harry Pr.estqn, in the employ of Mr W. Donaldson, horsetrainer, Paeroa, while exercising Master Arch over, the hurdfles yesterday mqrning at about 9 o’clock, came to grief near the stand. He was thrown heavily to the ground, injuring his left shoulder and also ,r,ec,eiv-, ing a nasty cut abqve the eye. PTeston was unconscious for a short time, and on recovery was brought intq Paeroa by car for medical treatment. The injuries are net regarded as serious.

Building permits to the value of £1225 were granted at yesterday’s meeting of the Haunaki Plains County Council.

At the request of the settlers of the southern parts of the Hauraki Plains who presented a petition to the Northern Steamship Co., the company has agreed to reinstate the s.s. Waipu in the Piakc ; River-Auckland service. The first trip will be made bn Monday.

Ivan Sokolic (35), the Croatian, who was arrested on November 27 at Paeroa on a charge of assaulting Joseph Brenan the night previously, so as to cause ac,tual bodily harm, made another appearance at the Police Court at Auckland! on Wednesday, when he was remanded to ap-, pear at Paeroa on December 19.

“We find that newspaper advertising is one of the best means of letti,ng the public know the value of our own service and qf attracting traffic to any special events,” said Mr G* G. Stewart, director of the Railway Department’s publicity branch, speaking at Christchurch on Monday.

On Tuesday evening Mr T. P. Viiglar met with rather a nasty accident to the thumb on 'his left hanfl. He was hanging some meat on a hook in his cooler, and in forcing the meat o> to the hook, the hook penetrated! his thumb and laid it open, necessitating thirteen stitches.

The Finance; Committee reported to last night’s meeting of the Pae-; rb a Borough Council that during the month the revenue in the district fund account amounted to £2712 3s 7d and the expenditure to £2266 18s 3d* including £785 3s 4d diue to the State Advances Department and £so4' 14s 4d on bitumen for main highways, which left a debit balance of £970 2s 3di An expenditure of £27 was made out of the swimming bath loan account, which left the variqus loan accounts as follows: Swimming bath (credit), £6 17s 3d ; ,1920 street improvement (credit), £2B 4s Id; house s.ewerage connections (debit), £504 12s 4d; council chambers (credit), £39 5s 9d ; sewerage (debit), £25 7s 7d. The cqmmittee recommended that the 10 per cent, penalty be imposed on all rates unpaid after. 12 .noon on Saturday, January 12, 1929.

Building permits to the value of £165 were granted by the Paeroa Borough Council at its meeting last evening.

It was unanimously resolved at last night’s meeting of the Paeroa Borough Council to place on record the council’s appreciation of what the resident engineer of the Public Works Department, Mr O. G. Thornton, had done fo,r. the council. The Mayor and Crs. Edwards and Flatt sspoke eulogistically of the assistance rendered and the capability of Mr Thornton, and congratulated him on his promotion.

A resolutin appointing a traffic irispector was passed at last night’s meeting of the Paerpa Borougjh Council.