LOCAL AND GENERAL

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXX, Issue 5439, 24 June 1929, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

As soon as the sleepers promised by the Railway Department arrive it is expected that the work of erecting a temporary fence at Finlay’s Crossing, Cadman Road, will be put in hand immediately. The ratio of unemployment is steadily increasing in the Thames district. The week before last there were 47 men registered upon the books of the local officer of the Labour Department. Last week-end the figure had risen to 54, an increase of seven. It is considered that this is partly due to the seasonal work on farms slackening off ,to the cessation of work on the Coroglen-Tapu road, and to the slackening of work at the various engineering businesses. At the moment there is no work in sight for these men.

Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure For Coughs and Colds, never fails.

At 12 o’clock to-day, in connection with the Queen Carnival, the Sports Queen was leading, followed by the Business Queen, with the Farmers’ Queen third.

During the course of his answer to a question with reference to the Government’s railway policy, Mr M. L. Savage, M.P., stated on Friday evening that he was fully in support of the Paeroa-Pokeno railway and would vote for it in the House.

Considerable merriment was caused during the course of the senior representative trial game at the Domain on Saturday, when the ball belonging to the juniors, who were playing on the adjacent ground, fell among the players. For a few minutes there were two balls being earnestly played before the referee pulled the game up. ■lt was really amusing to see two separate games in one.

Keen interest and amusement was caused on Saturday night by the appearance in the streets of the “Bridal Party” in connection with the Sports Queen. The eventful happening will be staged at the social to be held on Tuesday evening next at the Gaiety Theatre, and several prominent citizens will officiate.

On the King’s Birthday about 26 members of St. Paul’s Church Choir visited Thames and took part in the choral festival which is annually held in St. George’s Church. The choir of the latter church will return the visit on Wednesday of this week, when full festal Evensong will be sung in St. Paul’s Church at 7.30 p.m. by the combined choirs, and, after the Evensong, solos and anthems will be given by members of the choirs. At the conclusion of the service a solemn Te Deum will be sung, before the Altar, as an Act of Praise.

Before the Warden of the Court, Mr F. W. Platts, S.M., at Paeroa, the application of the Public Trustee to abandon two sites was agreed to. The application of the Imperial Gold Mining Co. made to the Court held on May 15 for reduction of rent on property at Karangahake to 2s 6d an acre from January 1, 1928, to December 3, 1929, was granted by the Minister’ of Mines.

The opinion that Parliament’would not interfere with daylight saving in New Zealand for some time was expressed by the Minister of Labour (Hon. W. A. Veithch) in the course of his address at the conference of the Bank Officers’ Guild at Wellington last week. The subject had been raised by the president (Mr R. A. Dixon) who, in jocular vein, said he wished to give the Minister a word of advice. “At our last smoke concert,” the speaker added, “we said to the then Acting Minister of Labour (Hon. R. A. Wright) : ‘lf you don’t give us day-light-saving, look out,’ You all know what has happened,” Mr Nixon added amidst laughter.

“There are some teachers in the service who should not be in—about one per cent.,” said Mr E. C. Banks at a meeting of Matamata teachers on Saturday. “A case cropped up the other day in regard to a teacher who was courting, and who opened the school on only two days a week.” (Laughter.)

“Is your printing done out of town ?” asked Mr P. H. Wood at the meeting of the A. and P. Association at Marton, and when the reply came in the affirmative he described the policy as a bad one. “A local institution which depends on local people for support should distribute its expenditure locally,” he said, and when informed that tenders were called and the local price was higher, he replied that local industry should be supported even if there was a little difference in a big order.