LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXX, Issue 5396, 6 March 1929, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

At. an expenditure of £9O the playground of the; Paeroa District High School has. been put in. splendid order. The Borough Council carried out the work in a most satisfactory xaanner.

The Minister of JJdnds (the Hon. GW. Forbes) will not accompany his colleagues on the f.or.thep|ning Ministerial visit to the. south Auckland district, but proposes to make a special inspection with his officers at a later date.

The O.hinemuri County Council lias decided, on the request of Messrs Miller Bros., to put the fords, bridge, etc., alcjrg Peel’s Road, near Komata, in order at a cost not exceeding £25.

To inspect reading progress, to attend to the organisation of th,e. association’s hotel scheme, to keep in touch with members and perspnally hear their suggestions and requirements, to inspect the very comprehensive system of signposting and a r " range for supplementary directions, and to generally cater for the ownerdriver, are the clbjectisi of the visit of Mr R. B. Spinks, member ofl the executive council, and Mr R. E. Chaanptaloup, touring manager, of the Auckland Automobile Association, who are at present,in the district.

Summertime will came to an end on Sunday, March 17, when clocks throughout the Dominion will be put back half, an hour. The advance was made on October 14. New Zealand’strial of summertime with a full hour advance was made in the 1927-28 sessin, but Mr T. K. Sid.ey’s Bill tn continue the measj-e was dtefeated in the House of Representatives by 33 voters to 28 last July. The sequel was a movement for local option and a compromise for a-universal half-hour was effected by the Government’s adoption l of the recommendation of the Select Committee on the Local Summertime' Bill. The alterations to the official cjocks are ni.ade at 2 a.m. Tiie Act expires on September 39 next.

While Hauraki Plains pastures are showing the effects of the lon< ep»ll of. dry weather, being, in the opinion of farmers, drier now than at. this time last year, the country looks much better than the Pukekohe and Waikato districts, w.h.ich. a.re burned brown and where hay is already being, fed out.

The members of the New Zealand rifle team in Australia were on Friday the guests of the Melbourne Cricket Club at the; England v. Victoria cricket match and lQ |f. the Victoria Racing Club on Saturday at the races.

Speaking at a mqpUv.g to consider publicity matters in Napier, business men urged the value of newspaper advertisements. Mr J. Harris said the newspaper advertisements caught the reader in a receptive: frame of, mind, after he had hadl his tea and finished his dry’s work,and were more impressive to readers than poster propaganda. Mr A. Hobson agreed. Newspaper advertising, had a psychological effqct upon Its readers not given by any other form of publhity.