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LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Thq first meeting of the year of the Paeroa Borough Council is to be held to-morrow night.

A young Maori woman was this morning committed to the Auckland Asylum. Her actions during the past few days somewhat alarmed her family, and she was taken into custody by the police yesterday.

The latest official figures reveal considerable increases in the number of divorced persons remarrying. Out of every 1000 persons married in 1914 11-had been divorced, the corresponding figures for 1927 being 30'. The increase, it is suggested, is a r,efie x of the large number of divorce c.as.es, since the war.

Farmers and tractor-owners are notified by advertisement that Voco power kerosene in bulk will be available at Paeroa. and district from tomorrow (January'l7).

Anything over 200 miles is a good day’s r.un for the average motorist. Mr H. D. Bennett, of Wellington, who has been on a motor tour tlhraugnoul the Nor.tr Islanj during .the Christinas; and New Year holidays, arrived home on Thursday night. He came through from Tauranga in a day and a half, Thursday’s run being from the Spa at Taupo to Wellington, a distance of. 260 miles.

Between 2500 and 3000' New Zealand lambs were delivered to people in the Old Country this Christmastime as a result of orders given in New Zealand. The price was SI Ils a carcase, and even divided among four families a lamb would provide a substantial dinner. The total number of lambs delivered in England under this scheme, which has been in existence four or five years, now exceeds 15,000.

The Year Book of 1929 gives the number of pupils leaving the primary schools of. New Zealand for the year 1927 as 22,497 (11,892 boys and 10,605 girls) and of these 5977 boys. (50 per cent.) and 5247 girls (49 per cent.) went on to post primary schools, in the same year, 4851 boys and gjris -left the secondary schools.

After a lapse of several years the Katikati Agricultural and pastoral Society has dtecided to resume the solving of its. annual show, and has fixed on Wednesday, February 28, for, the 1929 event.

The Railway Department is running an excursion train from Huntjy t° Waihi and Strand! (Tauranga) on Sunday next. The; train stops at principal stations, and fares at half ordinary rates are being charged, particulars are advertised in this issue.

The Easter and Christmas seasons,according to the Year. Book, are regarded as the most suitable times of the year for entering the matrimonial state; and taking the quarterly figures for an average year Easter would appear to sjightly predominate. In four, of the last five years April has led by a small margin over December, while in the; remaining year the figures were approximately the same. Wednesday, the figures show, is the mos.t popular day for marriages, this diay claiming thr.ee-sevent'hs of thq to.tal. Sunday marriages are rare, and Friday is evidently regarded as an unlucky day, only 4%. per. cent, of the total marriages in 1927 being c.el e ' brated on that day. The thirteenth of the month alsp appears- to be. treated! with respect, the average number, of marriages on ithat day during 1927 being only 17, as against a general average of 29 and a grand total of 4354 to the credit of the popular Wednesday.

“Suppose you took the influenza that is raging in America just now. What would the firm -dto. then ? They couldn’t apply to Almighty God to let you off the influenza,” remarked Mr G. Cruickshank, S.M., at Invercargill, when refusing 'exemption from military camp to an applicant Whose firm stated that work c.ould not be gone; on with' in his absence. To this question no reply was forthcoming (state's the “News”).

Preparations, afe already in train for. Ratana’s birthday celebrations, which will be on a grand scale. It is expected that the gathering will be nearly as large as thq one last January 25, when Ratana Temple was dedicated. There will be no such ceremony on this occasion, but the festivitie? will include sports, with plenty of birthday cake and soft drinks. “There will be no hard stuff,” remarked a Maori to a newspaper, man. “Any Maori want te hard stuff, he have to buy it outside and take it into te; pa in him inside.” The rule is strictly enforced that no liquor is to be brought into the pa except inside the person, and if a man happens to have an overload abo.ard fines are inflicted. Consequently very few Maoris go there intoxicated; As a matter of fact, the followers of Ratana are a sober people.

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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXX, Issue 5375, 16 January 1929, Page 2

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LOCAL AND GENERAL. Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXX, Issue 5375, 16 January 1929, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL. Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXX, Issue 5375, 16 January 1929, Page 2

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