THE Hauraki Plains Gazette With which is incorporated THE OHINEMURI GAZETTE. Motto: Public Service. MONDAY, WEDNESDAY, & FRIDAY. FRIDAY, APRIL 5, 1929. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXX, Issue 5407, 5 April 1929, Page 2

THE Hauraki Plains Gazette With which is incorporated THE OHINEMURI GAZETTE. Motto: Public Service. MONDAY, WEDNESDAY, & FRIDAY. FRIDAY, APRIL 5, 1929. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Another new industry ,ha,s been established in Paeroa. Yesterday a moving picture company was farme,d with the object, of filming any subjects desired for commercial or theatre use. All the apparatus necessary for the enterprise has already been instaJlCjd in Pa.eroa, and from the photographing to the finished film, everything will be dome here.

The official closing fox’ the season of the; Paeroa Tennis Club will take place to-niorro.w. Commenaing. at 2.30, a Yankee tournament will be playefl during the afternoon.

Tho M.C.C. (England) received from the Victoria.h Cx-icket Association .£8940 as its share of the gate at thq thhj test match. sunx alone Would have paid the tpital expenses of some of the tours by English teams in the pre-war times.

An indicaticn of the better financial position of Haufaki Plains farmers is afforded by the fact that during the financial year just closed! the Hauraki Plains County Council’s collection of current rates and arrears of rates was such that only £3l 3s 3d was pajil in interest, on the bank overdraft, as compared with £126 16s 9d in the previous year and £228 15s 6d in the year before.

The official clewing o f the Paqroa Swimming Baths will take place tomonow afternoon. Commencing, at too o’clock, the Paeroa Amateur Swimming club will swim the finals for points, prizes and ra.ees for club members.

A successful trial run was made with the pumping plant at the; sewage tanks on Wednesday morning last. The work of installation has been in ham.l lor sumq time, and was dc•’igned and the w.holc work planned out. by ,Mr W. Marshall, Mayor, who also litted up the pump . a pump to cope with tlxe water in flood time has also been erected, but, of cour.se, tin’s cannot be tried out until a flood occurs. The; Mayor is certainly to be congratulated' on the successful issue of what was indeed a big under-: taking.

It. is reported from Te Awamutu that two members of a household were violently sick after eating apples and that untouchejd pie madq out of apples from tbc same case, when thrown to the fowls resulted, in theii' death. No explanatieln is, given ag to the cause of poisoning, but the. circumstances strongly call to mind that in England about three years ago many people were poisonqdl by imported American apples which had been sprayed with insectide containing arsenic. The Home authorities went, into the matter, and after thorough investigation and exhaustive tests banned the; import of such apples and placed a very heavy line on those exposing, for sale a .ny of the remaining stocks.'

Tlie Lands Drainage Department’s Anuriean steam dipper dredge NP'. 24', which lias bee.n working in the uppq l ' leaches of the Piako Rivei' for many months, came down-stream this week and on Tuesday afternoon left Kercpeehi en route, to Waitakai’urii, where it will ccinmence cutting a canal lionx tiiq Waitakaruru-Maukoto c.anal eastward on the, southern boundary of the sections fronting the PipiroaM aitaliai tit u road. The. dredge wa.s towefl by the s.s. Hauraki, and 1 a launch towedt he houseboat in which tlie dredge crew live and also l a punt carrying the dipper and its arm. Woods’ (heat Peppermint Cure For Influenza Gqlds.