LOCAL AND GENERAL.
The. new daily mail service by bus from Paeroa to Auckland, via Hauraki Plains, will commence on Friday, March 1. Mails fiqr Auckland will close at 7 a.m., and return, mail will reach Paqroa at 7 p.m.
A member of the Thames Valley Jersey Breeders’ Club who .was dne of the party viewing Mr W. Muir’s farm and cattle on the Waihi Plains yesterday, expressed the opinion that if he were a young man starting farming he would choose land in the same loc.ality. This is only one of, the remarkably tributes paid to land that, i' as once thought worthless.
The Bank of Australaisia opened a receiving, agepey in Ngatea yetserday. A room in Mr E. L. Walton’s buildings has been obtained, and an officer from the Paeroa branch will be in attendance from 11 aim. until, 3 p.m. on Tuesdays and Thursdays.
As a further instance of Government interference in business may be quoted regulations permitting the manufacture of .standardised cheese. At a meeting of, the council of thq New Zealand Ayrshire Cattle Breeders’ Association held at Palmerston North on 'Wednesday it was decided to write to the director of the dairy division, Department of Agriculture, protesting,, as the association was. of the opinion that, standardised cheeses with less butter-fat content would have a detrimental effect upon the good name of New Zealand full cj-eam cheese. z
One of the largest stoc,k trains from the east coast to Frankton since the Waihi-Tauranga branch line was opened passed through Paeroa on Sunday afternoon. The train, consisting of 53 trucks laden w,it ( h sheep, le(ft Whakata,ne West at 5.50 1 on Sunday morning and arrived’ at its destination at 3 p.m.
The Survey branch of the Lapels and Survey Department is continuing the work of installing permanent survey peg,s on the roads of, the Plaiuy. Thy concrete bloc.ks, which will be buried at. the various road corners, were recently distributed in the Turua and Netherton districts.
Big, reductions in ladies’ footwear. Greatest bargains ever offered for 14 days ; big variety of styles and colours. See window display.—Masters and Son.*
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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXX, Issue 5391, 22 February 1929, Page 2
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352LOCAL AND GENERAL. Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXX, Issue 5391, 22 February 1929, Page 2
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