THE Hauraki Plains Gazette With which is incorporated THE OHINEMURI GAZETTE. Motto: Public Service. MONDAY, WEDNESDAY, & FRIDAY. WEDNESDAY, MAY 22, 1929. LOCAL AND GENERAL

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXX, Issue 5427, 22 May 1929, Page 2

THE Hauraki Plains Gazette With which is incorporated THE OHINEMURI GAZETTE. Motto: Public Service. MONDAY, WEDNESDAY, & FRIDAY. WEDNESDAY, MAY 22, 1929. LOCAL AND GENERAL

The i Paeroa Maternity Hospital i* well on the way towards completion, and it is expected that the end of June will see the building ready for occupation.

At the annual meeting of the Thames Valley Power Board on Monday Mr F. M. Strange was re-elected chairman and Mr J. Price deputychairman. The special finance committee, consisting of Messrs C. A. Arthur, F. E. Flatt, J. Price, and J. B. Thomas, was also re-elected-

The fourteen months’ period for which existing motor vehicle licenses are available will expire on May 31, and the new licenses will be for the period June to May 31, 1930. It will be illegal to use the present brown and white number plates after May 31, under a penalty of- £2O. The new number plates, which have been made under a contract running over five years, are white on blue.

The Thames Valley Power Board at its annual meeting on Monday decided to maintain the chairman’s honorarium at its present figure of £l5O per annum.

The advisability of the Press publishing full details of poisoning cases was referred to by Mr J. S. Barton, S.M., at Wellington recently at the conclusion of an inquest at which he presided on a woman who died as a result of taking poison. Mr Barton said that if he had the power to do so he would make an order suppressing details of the manner in which the deceased took her life. He had not that power, but, nevertheless, in the interests of the community he thought that no good purpose could be served by the publication of the detailed particulars. From past experience he knew that the publication of such details sometimes led to others taking their lives in the same manner.

The convent school which is being built in .the main street at Te Aroha will add greatly to the attractiveness of that town’s principal thoroughfare.

Of the electricity sold by the Thames Valley Power Board during the year ended March 31, Paeroa district consumed the most, paying £11,480 17s for light and heat. The Matamata district followed, with £7160 14s 9d, and then Morrinsville district, with £5599 Is Id, and Te Aroha district, with £3548 0s 4d. The Te Aroha borough bought £1456 13s 5d worth of electricity, and the Thames borough £3699 12s lid.

The pay-out of the Te Aroha Dairy Co. for April was £12,187, an increase of £3285 over last year’s figure of £8902, making a percentage increase of 36.9. The amount paid out to date for the 1929 season amounts to £176,228, as against £115,310 in 1928, an increase of £60,918 or 52.9 per cent. The value of butter-fat for April rose from £133,679 in 1928 to £172,158 in 1929, an increase of £38,479, or 28.8 per cent. For the season the butterfat showed an increase from £1,764,065 in 1928 to £2,482,371 in 1929, a rise of £718,306 or 40.7 per cent. The net cash farm-gate advance rose from Is 4d to Is sd.

The removal of the Piako County Council from its old offices in the Thames Valley Power Board’s building at Te Aroha to the council’s own new building was commenced on Monday. Lorries were kept continually going all day transporting furniture and documents.

Mention was made in this paper last week that motorists deeii.ied to make use of their cars as read rollers at the approach of the r.e-.v Waitakaruru bridge. It is now learned that the bridge has been roped off.

Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure For Coughs and Colds, new fail?