THE Hauraki Plains Gazette With which is incorporated THE OHINEMURI GAZETTE. Motto: Public Service. MONDAY, WEDNESDAY, & FRIDAY. MONDAY, MARCH 18, 1929. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXX, Issue 5401, 18 March 1929, Page 2

THE Hauraki Plains Gazette With which is incorporated THE OHINEMURI GAZETTE. Motto: Public Service. MONDAY, WEDNESDAY, & FRIDAY. MONDAY, MARCH 18, 1929. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

This morning a rumour wag abroad that Mr S. Henderson, the jockey who was injured on Saturday, had died the Thames Hospital last night. The secretary of the Ohinemuri Jockey' Club, on inquiring this mdrning, was informed by the matron that Mr Henderson was the same as last night, and was very comfortable.

A young man, Victor Milton Rowlands, who was in this district in the early part of last summer, was charged with false pretences at the Hastings Court last week, and .was admitted to probation fPlr two years and ordered to pay £8 15s within three months.

With only one section left unleased, the Civic Square at Auckland will shortly become $ solidly-built area. The latest enterprise is. the acceptance of. a tencter of about £23,000 for the erection, on behalf of a Company, of a block, to. be known as Fergusson Buildings.

“Newspapers stand far ahead of. any other advertising media as butynessgictters. This has been proved conclusively by the biggest advertisers in the world,” said Mr Danie] Yaffa, of Sydney, in an address; on “Advertise ing and Its Influence,” at the; Advertising Club luncheon at Auckland last week.

Owing to the falling-off in the at-, tendance at the baths a.t. night, the Borough Council has decided that after Friday next the baths will be closedddur ing the evening except on Club nights,

To, pjpee Bibleg in the bedrooms of hotels throughout New Zealand, for t,he use of the travelling public, is the; task recently taken in hand by the Dominion Council of thie British and Foreign Bible Society. This de-, cis,ion has been come to after much, thought and careful inquiry. BibleSi are now to be found in hotel bed L roonis in Scotland, .Canada, United States, and Australia, and occasionally in New Zealand. Already ow four hundred have been placed by the society in leading hotels in .Wellington, and the work is now being furthered in Auckland. The volumes, ato handsomely bound in rexine leather and' the print is in clear lonic type.

The timber for the erection of the seating accommodation at the baths ■has arrived, and a. w’orking bee, organised by the secretary bf the Paer.oa Swimming Club, will be busy for a few evenings placing the timber on trestles already erected by the club’s working bees.

The members of the principal religious bodies of. New Zealand last year’ are estimated! by the Government Statistician as follows : Church of England, 553,993; Presbyterian, 330,329 ; Roman Catholic, 173,332; Methodist, 121,268 ; Baptist, 21,959 ; Brethren, 12,939; Salvation Army, 12,311 ; Church of Christ, 7985 ; Congregational, 7281 ; r'qligion not stated 62,567.

A banquet on a colossal scale, surpasing all banquets previously held in New Zealand; will be tendered t' a the Rt. Hon. Sir Joseph Ward, Prime Minister of New Zealand and the membejr for Invercargill, by the citizens of Invercargill on March 20', says the Chrsitchiirch “Sun.” Two thousand guest.:' are being catered for. To obtain the necessary crockery, dutlery ami paraphernalia of a banquet, the caterer hns exhausted the resources of Invercargill, Dunedin, and! Christchurch ; and he may find it necessary to tap the resources of. Wellington also. One hundred and sixty to 180 dozen plates, glasses, knives and forks are required! for each course, a,nd 530 yards of tablecloth will be needed.