LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXX, Issue 5397, 8 March 1929, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Auckland Automobile Assaria-. tion has information that the PaeroaTe Ai.oha road is to be raised i' vo feet. When this is, accomplished all troubles from flood will be qibviated.

Mr H. Dent, has, on requisitjon, decided to be a candidate for the Nga? tea riding at the next election for representation on the Hauraki Plains County Council. This Mr Dent has consented to cm account of the rcjtirc-. ment of Mr E. L. Walton the present riding, member and chairman of. the council, who is not seeking re-election.

On Saturday last Mr Laurie Smith, son of Mr W. Smith, Willoughby Street, Paerpa, and until recently a local resident, was a successful competitor in the annual swim of one and a-half miles in the Waitqmata Harbour.

Miss Lola •Mai'cia Warn, aged 18. daughter of Mr and, Mrs Fr.ank Warn, of. Waihi, the young, woman who was struck by the pointed end of a tent-, pole in a motor collision between Whakatane and Taneatua on the night of February 23, passed away yesterday.

Anxiously-waited-for rain has at last fallen in Paeroa. and district. On Wednesday very slight showers occurred, but yesterday good refreshing rain fell at intervals throughout the eday, with a result that pastures and stock will not be long, in showing a decided improvement.

Word has been received (says the Thames Star) that a portion of the goeds-shed at the Thames North station is to be dismantled and re-erected at Paeroa at. an early date. On the basis of. the present traffic, there will, however, still be ample accommodation retained for freight.

For some considerable time past Mr A. M. Samuel, M.P., has been endeavouring to get the Railway Department to build back porches on the houses in the railway settlement at. Paeroa, and he has now been advised that the material is in preparation and the work will be commenced in about a fortnight’s time. This will be good news and: a great boon t.o the wives of the Paeroa. members of. the Railway Service, who have had to work in continual draught, and sometimes with rain beating up the passage unde" the unprotected back door of t.hoir houses.

The Auckland Automobile Association is advocating the discontinuanc.e of level crossings and urging thei construction of. bridges «r subways in their places.

Besides the movement by train of large numbers of sheep to the Waikato via the East Coast-Paeroa, line, many have been taken there recently by steamer from the Soift.h Island.

Whilst Mrs E. Connolly, of Hill Street, was out visiting friends on Monday night, washing to the valuqoC £1 was. stolen from her clothes-line.

Published' in these columns a few days ago, the extraordinary fact that seven Paeroa children had never seen the sea evoked great interest thruughout the Thames Valley, Hauraki Plains, Wa.ikat'ol, and Bay of. Plenty. As a result of the school picnic the number has now been reduced t.o two — two unfortunate lads, whose parents, on learning that t'he school was to. have a holiday, refused ta let them join the pic, nickers and made them work on the farm. These two have to milk the cows at 4.15 every morning and again on return borne from school. As an example of d9wn-. wright slavery this stands out on its own.

The total number, of consumers connected to the Thames Valley Power Board’s mains is now 6897, which includes the Thames and Te Aroh a Boroughs with 1074 and 640 consumers respectively. During the month 19 lighting and heating consumers, 20 water-heaters, 8 electric ranges, and 7 motors on farms —of which one was a 2 h.p. milking mpttor—wepe connected. There are; now connected and operating 1669'water-heaters, 284 electric ranges, and 2138 motors on farms —of which 1791 are 2 h.p. milking motors. In addition, 19 consumers had Ighting and lieatng extensions made during the month.

Proposals for utilising Taranaki ironsand have been placed before the New Plymouth Harbour Board' by an American corporation. The prefcess involves, the use of an electrp magnetic separator and a specially designed electric, furnace for’reducing the ore, refining the concentrate into steel of. any quality. The company is already successfully working the black sands Of, Monterey Bay, a little to the •southward uf San Francise.o, but maintain that they are entirely inferior to the sands of Tarajiaki. From New Zealand irpnsand’ the company prophesy tliat steel will be made iu any quantity desired, of any quality desired, and at a price which will allow a New Zealand company to domiinate the entire steel industry of Australia and this country.

Eves non-amokera must for snould) admit that tobacco is a splendid disinfectant. It was found to be so in the gr«a»t plague year in England (1665), and in our own day medical men often consider it invaluable in helping to ward off infection. But it is in times of mental stress that sc luajiy value it. Every smoker knows how comforting it is in time of trouble. Inferior brands., however, are best avoided, and it should, of course, be as free from nicotine ais possible. The American .tobaccos, by the ‘.'ay, are all more or less loaded with the latter. But our New Zealand varieties, on the other hand, contain very little. Hence their appeal to the smoker who can go on puffing them all, day long if lie likes without fear of consequences. And, owing to the fact that the leaf is, toasted —quite a novel notion —they are as. remarkable for flavour as for fragrance. Your tobacconist has them. Ask for Riverhead Gold, mild ; Navy Cut (Bulldog), medium ; or Cut Plug No. 10 (Bullshead), full, strength*