THE Hauraki Plains Gazette With which is incorporated THE OHINEMURI GAZETTE. Motto: Public Service. Monday, Wednesday, & FRIDAY. WEDNESDAY, JULY 3, 1929. LOCAL AND GENERAL

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXX, Issue 5443, 3 July 1929, Page 2

THE Hauraki Plains Gazette With which is incorporated THE OHINEMURI GAZETTE. Motto: Public Service. Monday, Wednesday, & FRIDAY. WEDNESDAY, JULY 3, 1929. LOCAL AND GENERAL

A frost of almost record intensity was experienced at Paeroa last night. This morning trees, grass, and housetops were covered with a mantle of white. Some vistas resembled nothing so much as the dainty little Christmas card views of days gone by. Eleven degrees of frost was registered by Mr T. W. Kenny’s recording thermometer.

A social will be held in Mr Prendergast’s house at Tirohia on Friday, the sth inst., in aid of the Farmers’ Queen. A monster dance and euchre wiil be held in the Netherton Hall tomorrow night for the same purpose.

A service of thanksgiving for the recovery from his illness of His Majesty the King will be held at Ngatea next Sunday afternoon. Members of the Hauraki Plains County Council will attend officially.

The gallant youths who brave the perils of modern traffic on cycles as while peddling along they gaze nonchalantly around with their hands in their pockets will be called upon to pay for their little display of skill and heroics in future. At. the Hamilton Court Mr S. L. Paterson, S.M., ordered several of them to pay 10s and court costs as a warning to cyclists generally that such a practice is not permitted by the law, and constitutes a danger to other traffic.

The somewhat extraordinary fact was revealed at a meeting of the Wellington Hospital Board last week that a family of four has been receiving charitable aid to the extent of 25s weekly from the Social Welfare Committee, while during the period the income of the family amounted to £2l 15s a month.

The Ohinemuri County Council meeting to-morrow has been postponed until next Thursday, owing to the absence of Mr C. Mason, who has left for Hawke’s Bay to attend the funeral of Mrs Mason’s mother.

The miniature rifle shoot to-night will consist of practice, and next Wednesday evening a trophy shoot will be held. Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure

For Children’s Hacking Cough.

At noon to-day the Business Queen was leading, followed by the Farmers’ Queen and Sports Queen in that order.

A requiem mass will be celebrated at 10 a.m. to-morrow in St. Mary’s Church for the repose of the soul of the late Mrs Mary Brown.

The Kerepeehi Rugby Football Club has decided to hand over the whole oi the profits of its annual ball, which is to be held in the Kerepeehi Hall on Wednesday next, July 10, to the Earthquake Relief Fund. Elaborate arrangements are being made for this annual fixture, and patrons can rely on having a good night’s enjoyment. Free buses will run from Paeroa, Thames, Turua, and Waitakaruru.

“What struck me most forcibly in the course of extensive travel throughout the Dominion is the appalling condition of the teeth of the Average New Zealander,” states Mr Alexander Marky in the New Zealand Dental Journal. “Nowhere in the world have I seen such an astonishing percentage of decayed, dead, and artificial teeth.”

A contemporary, through a typographical error, in a report on a sly-grog-selling case, says, “The Magistrate sly-grog selling.” One wonders what the worthy magistrate in question would think of this, more especially as he had been discoursing on the deplorable modern habit of drinking liquor at dances, and the illicit opportunities to get liquor that slygrog shops offered to men who had to drive cars home after a dance.

Being representative, in the chairman’s words, of one of the most prosperous districts in New Zealand the Thames Valley Power Board, at its meeting yesterday, decided to contribute £5O towards the earthquake funds.

“The population of Thames is steadily growing by natural increase, there being 17 births this ‘morning’ in comparison with seven in June of last year,” says the “Stat.” Getting more like London every day, apparently.