LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXX, Issue 5392, 25 February 1929, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The railway excursion yesterday from Te Kuiti to Tauranga was taken advantage of by 650' people, of whom 50 were from Paeroa.

The Government has declared all that part of the Waihou River between the Wajor,ongoniai bridge and the Mangaiti bridge over such river a sanctuary for native and imported game.

New Zealand naturalisation papers were gr,anted on the Ist inst. to two Dalmatians, one German', two Italians, four jugo-Slavs, two Russians, I Saxon, two Swedes, and three Swiss.

During December the place in New Zealand with the greatest amount of rainfall was Kaimai, Tauranga, which registered 18.55 inches, whilst Luggate, Cromwqll, showed the least with •73 of an inch.

Blenheim Oil shares had various fluctuations last week. One day the buyers would not offer more than IDs. Then a further flow of oil caused, buyers to offer £3, but asked £5 ss. At the third call £2 15s was offered, but there were no sellers.

The Hauraki Plains Co-operative Dairy Co., Turn., paid its suppliers for January milk and! cream at the usual rate of Is 6d fefr milk and Is 5d for cream, the sum involved being £5253 15s, of which £530 15s went to crqain suppliers.

At the annual confer,ence of the Wholesale General Merchants of New Zealand in Dunedin on Friday an expression of appreciation was recorded at tlie recent announcement of the Prime Minister that in his opinion the time had arrived when the Government should give business people more encouragement to develop their businesses, and that the Government should abstain from that interference which had characterised political activity in recent years.

Big, reductions in ladies’ footwear. Greatest bargains evei* offered for 14, days; big variety of styles and colours. See window display.—Masters and Son.*

The Paerpia Borough Council gives notice that the present consumption of water is, .seriously in excess of. the supply, and that the use of garden hoses is totally prohibited. Offenders and any consumers permitting, waste will be prosecuted without warning.

Five pig buying organisations are working on the Hauraki Plains, and it is estimated that over 600 pigs left tile district by train from Paeroa last week.

The annual report of the United Press Association shows a considerable increase in the cable Service, and that a total of 986,873 words of original messages; had been issued, forming a record. There had been an unusual quantity of important events in the King’s illness, most of which required reporting at great length,

For the period ended February 9, Comprising f 29 crushing days, the Waihi Mines produced 7230 fine ounces, of gold and; 34,998 fine ounces of silver. At Saturday’s prices the value of the gold was £30,704 18s l%d and the silver £4064 17s 6d, making a total of £34,769 15s 7V 2 d.

Rats arc fastidious creatures, according to a Wellington shopkeeper, who says that they raid boxes containing the dearer sorts of chocolates and pass by the qheapier, kinds. He also say« that when ra,ts tackle a bag of peanuts they 'take only one of the two nuts from each shell, having apparently not yet Jearnjed that there are two.

Auckland .apple groweis have had a particularly good season, and the exportable balance is expected to be fully 50 per, cent, above last season’s figure, when 65,000 cases were exported, principally to Great Britain and South America. Or. this occasion there is every indication that Auckland will export 100,000 some of which will go tpi new markets such as South Africa, Germany, and the Scandinavian countries.

The Norwegian whaler N. T. Nielsen Alonso has reached Hobart after a four months’ cruise in the North Antarctic, which resulted in the capture; of 732 whales, yielding 63,500 barrels of oil. The catch is jvorth approximately £350,000 —a world’s record 1 — but it is expected that the whaler C. A. Larsen, still at work in the Ross Sea, will exceed this figure. The- Ross Sv,a is a dependency of New Zealand.

That it is nevqr too late to repent is evidently the belief of a woman who entered! a Dunedin drapery store recently and announced, that she had an appointment with the manager. When he arrived an hour a-nfl a-half later, he; discovered' that tlie woman was a total stranger. To his surprise, she informed- him that she had stolen some goods, from the shop a year ago, and that her conscience was sn troubled that she was anxious to make restitution. Leaving with the assurance that she was forgiven, she returned next day with the few shillings which the articles would normally have cost.

A correspondent to the “Dominion” points-out that a statement to the effect that the reaping machine was invqi'.ited in America by C. H. Mc.Cormac in 1831 is incorrect. The first successful reaping machine was invented in 1826 by the Rev. Patrick Bell, of Carmylie, Fifeshire. 'As a youth the clergyman had experimented on a machine for mowing corn, and the principle fr© adopted, that a series of scissors fitted; to a “knife-board,” was in use for many years. Many other inventions of a similar nature had been made about th© same period, but the Rev. Bell’s invention was the first to prove a success. The foijn of reaper in general use to-day is the outcome of the machine devised by an American, C. H. McCormac, whose son is 1 at present, visiting the Dominion. Prior to the nineteenth century the siejde and the scythe were the only instruments used for the mowing of c,rppsL

"The public must be taught that early cancer is painless, and that, the absence of pain does not exclude the possibility of cancer. They must realise, above all, that early cancer is curable when it occurs in accessible positions, and that the worst pain connected with most orprations for canc.er under modern- conditions < s the pain, of anticipation. There is a good prospect that within the netxt few years the knife wild be largely superseded by an electrical method of removing cancer, perhaps even that radium -treatment will, i-p many e.asihs, replace operative removal.” The above statement was made by the; eminent LohdOn surgeon andi authority on cancer, Mr Sampson Handley, senior surgeon at the Middlesex Hospital, when opening, a discussion on cancer, following the official opening of the conference of the New Zealand branch otf the British Medical Association at Wellington last week.

Turua people, may like to have their district referred to as a land flowing with milk anil honey, but since Friday this appellation has lost some of its favour. Possibly due to hurry to get awtvy to the school picnic, a can P»f cream was spilled on the bitumen road, w.hqre the blazing sun reduced it to the conaistency of oil, and passing spread it for chains along the road- The road was made very slippery, and the raic c.id smell was strong enough- to permeate the whole atmosphere.

Your opportunity to buy cheap ladies’ shoes, good. Don’t delay ; genuine bargains offering' at Masters and Son’s for* 14 days only.*

“The best prophet ctf the Futu’re is tlie Past.”—Byron, To act on a precedent is always safe. That is why the majority of New Zealanders take Baxter’s Lung Preserver for coughs, and colds—it has sixty years’ popularity to bath it up. This rich, re d, sootbitag compound is always dependable amd gives relief from the very first dose. Obtainable at all chemists and stores. Generous-sized bottle 2/6; large family size 4/6 ; hachqlor’s siize 1/6.