LOCAL AND GENERAL

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXX, Issue 5414, 22 April 1929, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

It was mentioned at the meeting of the Acclimatisation Club on Saturday that pheasants are very plentiful around Paeroa and district this year. The annual general meeting of the Thames Valley Rugby Union is to be held on Saturday evening next at the Soldiers’ Club. The friendly games of football playon Saturday by teams of the Paeroa Rugby Union resulted as follows : Waihi 6, v. West 5 ; East 27, v. Pirates 0. A reminder is given of the householders’ meeting which is to be held at the Paeroa District High School tonight. The committee of the Kerepeehi Sports Association at a meeting on Wednesday evening last declared that the five persons whose calculation of the weight of the sheep was nearest correct should be asked whether they would consent to a draw being made to decide who should have the prize. Woods;’ Great Peppermint Cure First gid for cQuglis, colds, influepzl

The following resolution was passed at last Thursday’s meeting of the Borough Council in connection with the Paeroa-Pokeno railway : “That the council urge the member for the district to use his best endeavours to persuade the Prime Minister and the Minister of Railways to visit the district for the purpose of personally looking into the question of immediate construction of the PaeroaPokeno railway.”

The Hauraki Plains West Drainage Board having entered into an agreement to construct a drain which, by reason of its proximity to a cowshed, and the fact that it would not be fenced, would be troublesome to maintain, but which would only benefit one settler, has made it a condition that the settler should maintain the drain for all time at a fixed price.

The Hauraki Plains Primary Schools Rugby Football Union, which was formed last season, held its annual meeting at Ngatea on Wednesday evening last. Mr W. Chappell was elected president, Mr G. Boswell vice-president, Messrs G. Boswell and R. C. Abel delegates to the Thames Valley Primary Schools Union, Mr G; Boswell delegate to the Hauraki Plains Rugby Union, and Mr R. C. Abel secretary. It was agreed that the inter-school competition should Commence on June 1. It was thought that there would be only three teams,

Delegates of ‘ the Waitakaruru, Ngatea, and Hauraki Plains West football clubs met at Ngatea on Friday evening for the purpose of defining the boundary of the two new clubs which are to be formed on the western side of the Piako River under the Hauraki Plains Rugby Union’s scheme of reducing the number of clubs. The matter was amicably discussed, and it was agreed to define a boundary along Hopai Road to Pouarua Road, thence to Torehape Road, and straight over the hills to the boundary of the union. The clubs will be known as North and South, respectively.

Officers appointed by the Turua Ladies’ Hockey Club at its annual meeting last Friday evening were as follows : President, Mr F. C. Robinson ; vice-presidents, Messrs K. Cosson and J. Kendall; secretary, Miss L. Aberhart; delegates to Hauraki Plains Associaton, Messrs C. Muller and H. Aberhart; committee, all officers and Messrs F. Scott, S. Stephens, G. Clark, and Misses 1/ Stephens, A. Curtis, and E. Aberhart. The club will have one team, and will enter' two teams for the five-aside tournament at Thames on Saturday next.

The Kopuarahi Cricket Club won the Hauraki Plains Association’s club competition by beating Ngatea by 41 runs in the play-off match, which was concluded at Kopuarahi on Saturday. Ngatea made 73, and Kopuarahi 48, which, added to the scores of the first innings played on the previous Saturday, made the totals Kopuarahi 162, Ngatea 121.' Details will be published in Wednesday’s issue.