LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXX, Issue 5385, 8 February 1929, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

At the Supreme Court at Auckland on Wednesday Ivan Sokalie appeared beforq Mr Justice Blair charged with assaulting Joseph Brenan at Paeroa on' November 26 last. Accused was remanded for sentence pending a medical examination.

Don’t miss this opportunity of hearing Mr G. V. Nagel, singing Evangelist, at the Presbyterian Church on Sunday evening and all next week.*

Cricket matches on the Plains tomorrow will be played at Ngatea against Orongo, at Pipiroa, where the Waitakaruru team will play, and at Kaihere, to where the Kopuarahi team will travel.

On January 21 the total number of unemployed in Britain was 1,425,000'--9397 less than the week befefre, “but,” states a cablegram, “246,850 more than the year before;” On the other side of the. picturie it; that recent utterance by Viscount Cecil: “We are spending something rather more than cne-’ejghth of bur total expenditure on armaments. It may be that if the prosperity of the world, and).particularly of this country, wejre abounding that would npt so very much matter, but we cannot claim in this country that our, prosperity is abounding. It does seem deplorable at such a difficult time to sacrifice every year upwards of £100,000,000.”

This week’s issue of the “N.Z. Sporting and Dramatic Review” is well up -to its usual high standard, and includes a coloured supplement of the Wellington Cup winner Vertigern that sheiuld appeal to followers of the turf. Racing is represented by photographs of the meetings at Wellington, Takapuna, a.nd Matamata. The N.Z. Swimming Championships, land girls’ cricket matches, and the; Auckland Anniversary Regatta are featured in picturesque series. The stage and screen sections have a particularly charming, selection of favourites, while the miscellaneous division covera many pages of interesting items. There has for some time been a shortage at Ngatea of labour for odd jobs. The School Committee, which had a week’s work for a man, has had to emplqy a Hindoo. LIFE IS GOOD. But many lives are ruined by the troubles, of colds, astma, bronchitis, and lung troubles. Wound you be brighter and liappiejr for. Pumonas ? If you are a ehest sufferer you will be. They are sure relief, and their health is imparted in a Pastille form. Pulmonas, 1/6 and 2/6, from all chemists.*