LOCAL AND GENERAL

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXX, Issue 5441, 28 June 1929, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

The temporary protective fence at Finlay’s Crossing, Cadman Road, has been erected.

Approximately £4OO has been banked by pupils of the Waihi District High School since the school banking scheme was inaugurated about two and a-half years ago. Every Tuesday is banking day, and most of the depositors attend the primary classes.

Influenza is very prevalent on the Hauraki Plains at the present time, and the attendance at most of the schools is seriously affected.

No appointment has yet been made by the Hauraki Plains Farmers’ Veterinary Club, as the applications for the position of surgeon which were referred to the Agricultural Department for a recommendation have not been received back from Wellington.

After paying the expenses of the Bay of Plenty team to Gisborne and back again to Whakatane for Monday’s (June 3rd) representative game at the Oval, the Poverty Bay Rugby Union has a balance of about £B5 remaining from the gate takings. The total gate for the day’s game was £1.67, including £2l collected at the grandstand.

Asbestos has been discovered in the Nelson, district of the South Island. A South African magnate is understood to have interested himself to the extent of £5OOO for the purpose of further investigations. Asbestos is worth anything around £lBO per ton, so that should the deposit prove at all extensive and satisfactory New Zealand’s export returns should benefit, and work be provided for a considerable number, of men.

1 The Ngatea members of the Church of England Ladies’ Guild held another of their dances and euchre tournaments in the Ngatea Hall on Wednesday evening, but the attendance was very small and the Church building fund would not be augmented. The music was by the Ngatea Orchestra, and Mr J. Neate was M.C. The euchre prizes were awarded to Mrs Bertelsen, Mrs Martin, H. Martin, and H. Harper, while the Monte Carlo waltz was won by Mr H. Harper and Mrs Rowlings.

A rather interesting case was recently. decided at a sitting of the Auckland Supreme Court. A man had been charged before two Justices of the Peace with drunkenness and assault, to which he pleaded guilty. He was convicted and fined and a prohibition order was issued against him. It was the latter he appealed against. His Honour, Mr Justice Kennedy, said that the Justices acted without jurisdiction in issuing the order. They had, he said, no more right under the circumstances, to issue a prohibition order than they had to order punishment in excess of the statutory minimum. It is not an unusual thing to hear of Justices issuing prohibition orders in similar cases but unless the offender consents no such power exists .