LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXX, Issue 5405, 27 March 1929, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

In common with general practice, there will be no issue of the “Hauraki Plains Gazette” on Friday or. Monday—the Easter holidays. As usual, through lac,k of co-operation on the shopkeepers’ part there 'is no indication of. what they intend to do, country buyers therefore being at a loss as far as shopping days are concernedHowever, bakers and butqhers will be open on Saturday morning to ensure supplies of fresh foodstuffs.

As a result of a petition presented to the Paerca Borough Council and signed by the requisite number of burgesses, a vote will be taken on the half-holiday question concurrently with the polling for mayor and councillors on May 1.

The building of the Paeroa Matei> nity Hospital is expected to be compl ted in July.

The ohinemuri Cdunty Council decided yesterday to make inquiries as to price, etc., in regard to a portable crusher, a crusher of this type being likely to prove invaluable, consider,iag, the varied nature of the council’s! i oadwork.

So far no success, has attended the efforts to- right, the meta] scow which turned turtlq in. the Piako River a little- ab®ve Ngatea ten days ago. On Sunday the vessel was towed to the deeper water just below the bridge} The. loss of this scow and the delay to others while being used in the effoits to turn it have resulted in the hol<l-;up of the road metalling work which the; County Council and JLahds; Drainage Department have in- hand at Kaihere and Kerepeehi.

A sale of high-class furniture and effects, on account of Mr J. W. Cocks, will be held at his residence. Station Goad, on Wednesday nCfXt, April 3, by Messrs R. Coulter and- Co., auctioneers, of Te Aroha, commencing at one o’clock.

At thq Ohinemuri County Council meeting yesterday ft was stated that there was every indication that the Waihi- Whaneamat:- Road would be declared' a main highway. The local district cotiii -.il had signified its approval, and it was now apparently only a question of waiting for Board’s answer.

In t.‘hq N.Z. Gazette of the 14tfi inst. appears the notification that the Rev. John Lowden has been reappinted Child Welfare Officer for Paeroa.