LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXX, Issue 5388, 15 February 1929, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Building permits to the value of £3BB were granted at last night’s meeting of the Paeroa Borough Council.

Tlie increase in the number, of pupils in the secondary department of the Ngatea District High Schciol lias warranted the appointment of an assistant to Mr R. C. and. Mr G. N. Frear, of Te Alpha, and! late of the Training College, Auckland, has bepn appointed: to till the position until the end of t'he present year.

While proceeding to the Waihi Beach on Sunday last a party from Paeroa, were going over the narrow strip of road—a. one-car road —near the beach, when just before the car got over another car, coming from the beach, evidently failing to notice tlie .sign, proceeded on tel the roa.d, with the result that, it went over a. steep bank, turned two somersaults, and landed on its wheels again. The car was owned by Mr D. McCart'hr.ey, of Mangaiti, and! contained four, adults and three children. Nolt one of the occupants, nor the car, a Chevrolet, sedan, sustained a scratch.

Notice appears in the New Zealand Gazette of January 31 that the; following areas, have been set apart for permanent State forests : 6663 acres Paeroa Survey District; 10 ! 00 acres Thames Survey Distr,ict; 575 acres Waitoa Survey District; and 44 acres Oruatcwelu-Kaingaroa Survey District.

There were no sejroius epidemics in New Zealand' last year, but scar,let ever, diphtheria and influenza took a. greater toll of life than in the previous year. . Other diseases, shchving notable increases were tuberculosis, cancer, heart disease, and pneumonia. Deaths from motor and railway accidents increased, but those from measlep, diseases of the nervous system, bronchitis, senility, and diseases of early infancy decreased.

'* Ninety per cent, of accidents at level crossings, are due to the carelessness of motorists, and l the other 10 per; cent, to misadventure,” said! Mr F. W. Johnston at a; meeting of tlie executive of the ,Sbuth Is,land Motor Union. Mr F. W. Freeman said that at the busier erolssings if one took any notice 'of the bells one would nqvcr get home. Sometimes when the bells were ringing the motorist did not know whether, the train had passed or not . That sort of thing tended to make motorists careless.