LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXX, Issue 5370, 4 January 1929, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Tenders arc invited by the Ngatea School Committee for -the transport of 48 children from Waitakar.uru and Hopai to the Ngateja school.

A steady douwnpour of rain commenced shortly after 8.30 o’clock last evening and continued for some hoars, being particularly heavy about eleven o’clock.

The Aucklnd Education Board has authorised the following teachers’ appointments: Secondary assistant; Mr E. H. Audley, Tauranga District High ; assistant, Miss L. M- Real, Paeroa District High.

The following vital statistics for Paeroa for the quarter, ended Decern-, ber 31, 1928, have bqen supplied by the Registrar, with the figures for the corresponding period in 1927 in parentheses : Births, 14 (8) ; deaths, 3 (3) ; marriages, 1 (3). For the full year the figures were;: Births, 99 (80) ; deaths, 20 (14) ; marriages, 25 (19).

The Ne,w Year issue of the “N.Z. Sporting and Dramatic Review” will appeal to all tastes with its wide diversity of subjects and the excellent reproductions. “The Tally-Ho” season in England is graphically portrayed in the double; centre pages, and some wonderful views, ar,e given of this English sport. The /Christmas races are covered in several pages of exciting starts and; finishes and lawn snapshots at Ellerslie, while trotting at Epsom is well repr.es,ent-, ed. The Second Test, England vAustralia on the Sydney cricket ground will appeal to cricket enthusiasts Who will be interested in the snapshots of the players and the incidents in the game. The coloured supplement “Expressions” is r.eally unique, depicting the various; equine moods. The frontispiece, of Corinne Griffiths, the attractive screen star, carries its own charm, and stage and screen have an extra special showing of bright photos. In, ,the miscellaneous division testing out Auckland’s new speedway, Princess Mary inspects H.M.A.S. Canberra, honouring Old Contemptiblles, the L'or.d Mayor o f London’s procession, the Prince of Wales’ tour of Africa, etc,.

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