THE Hauraki Plains Gazette With which is incorporated THE OHINEMURI GAZETTE. Motto: Public Service. MONDAY, WEDNESDAY, & FRIDAY. FRIDAY, JULY 5, 1929. LOCAL AND GENERAL

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXX, Issue 5444, 5 July 1929, Page 2

THE Hauraki Plains Gazette With which is incorporated THE OHINEMURI GAZETTE. Motto: Public Service. MONDAY, WEDNESDAY, & FRIDAY. FRIDAY, JULY 5, 1929. LOCAL AND GENERAL

At noon to-day the Farmers’ Queen was leading, followed by Business, with Sports third.

After having spent £90,000 in mine development and on the crushing plant—all raised in the Dominion —the Ohinemuri Gold and SilverMines, Ltd., expects to be in a position to start crushing operations at its battery at Maratoto within two months. ’

A dance and euchre- tournament will be held at the Karangahake Hall to-night by the Sports Queen’s committee in aid of the unemployment fund.

For the theft of 4s 9d from the clothes of a football player at Govdonton on June 8 a native was sentenced by the magistrate at Ngaruawahia to seven days’ imprisonment.

All football clubs on the Plains have assured the Hauraki Plains Rugby Union that they will field teams for the rest of the inter-club competition, so the matches to-morrow will be Waitakaruru at Turua, both seniors and juniors ; Ngatea seniors at Patetonga, and Ngatea juniors at Maramarua.

In 1863 the value of gold exported from New Zealand amounted to £2,432,000, and butter £125. In 1928 the figures were £490,000 for gold and £11,303,000 for butter.

A herd of 30 dairy cows, with a production average for the past season of 311.471 b of butter-fat, was sold at a clearing sale at Waitakaruru on Tuesday at prices which averaged £l5 6s lOd per head.

The Ohinemuri County has produced through the agency of cyanide twice as much bullion as the Thames and Coromandel counties put together.

A competition for the most popular girl in Morrinsville has just been concluded, the winner being Miss Sylvia Bowers. The sum of £6OO has been raised towards the funds of the Catholic Church.

A triple-trip device for automatically dropping an arm barrier over level crossings on the approach of a train and raising it with the passing of the last carriage was demonstrated before the Hamilton Agency of the Automobile Association this week by the inventor, Mr F. T. Clarke, of Hamilton. Members regarded the invention as inexpensive and workable, and decided to suggest to the Minister of Railways that the device was worthy of consideration.

The first ship to come to New Zealand definitely for trading purposes was the “Fancy,” which visited the Thames River from Sydney in 1794, taking away a cargo of spars and flax. Her owners were induced to undertake the expedition through Captain Cook’s glowing account of the timber trees in the vicinity.

With over 100 of its certificated teachers out of permanent positions, the Aucklad Education Board is considering the advisability of displacing uncertificated teachers in order to oven further positions for competition.

On Sunday next the special service of Thanksgiving for the recovery of His Majesty the King will be held in St. Paul’s Church at 10 a.m. The form of service will be the same as that held in Westminster Abbey and authorised for use in the Anglican Churches throughout the British Empire.

To-night there will be a dance at Mr A. S. Pendergrast’s house, Thohia, in aid of the Farmers’ Queen. Intending donors to the monster cattle drive to be held at the stock yards on sale day are respectfully requested to hand in their names to the Queen’s organiser or secretary before the 17th instant.

A man who had been confined in a lunatic asylum in Australia, and who is said to have killed a Chinaman, was brought to Wellington from Sydney on Tuesday under custody of two warders. The patient is a New Zealander, and his repatriation was effected as the result of correspondence between the Commonwealth and Npw Zealand Governments. As he has homicidal tendencies, he was kept in close confinement on the Marama, and was handcuffed at night-time, the warders being on watch continually, taking turn about.

“Did it ever occur to you that research may be the solution to the unemployment problem ?" asked Mr W. Calder Mackay in an address before the Canterbury Advertising Club at Christchurch. The invention of thermos flasks created jobs for 25,000 people ; the invention of steam turbines, jobs for 100,000 people ; artificial silk manufacture has provided work for .1,000,000 people. It is science, not government, that can provide work for the unemployed. No doubt at this present moment there is a scientist plodding away in his laboratory with some, new invention that will provide work for many. Science is the best creator of jobs.”

The seasonable movement of sharemilkers which is now taking place is affecting the roll numbers at schools on the Plains. At Ngatea there has been many changes, but the roll number has increased, while at Netherton the number has been reduced.

The old wooden structure known as McCormick’s bridge in Thornton’s Bay has now been replaced by a splendid solid-looking concrete one. The new bridge is finished, but as the cement is still green, it will probably be a couple of weeks before traffic can cross. In the meantime cars have to use the deviation via the beach, and pedestrians the temporary footbridge.

The splendid variety of the wJlchosen illustrations in this week’s issue of the “N.Z. Sporting and Dra matic Review” will make this number a favourite throughout New Zealand. Varied outdoor recreations include aviation, the “Globe of Death,” Arabs visiting England, and cute animal studies. The trotting at Alexandra Park is covered nn an animated set of photographs, while the page of individual drivers and another of caricatures of horses are added attractions of equine interest. Our photographers were, busy in the week-end attending the famous King’s V. Grammar college football match, obtaining a brilliant series of photos of the great game. The opening of New Zealand's Parliament by the Gov-ernor-General makes a very impressive page of snapshots; and another very fine page shows the parade of the Horse Guards in London with the, notable personages attending. Florence Vidor, the beautiful screen star, is the subject of a very picturesque coloured supplement, and the frontispiece is of another vivacious screen star. Glancing through the miscellaneous division one notices Max Schmeling, the German heavy-weight boxer; the earthquake, visit of Emden to Auckland, ladies’ intercollege hockey in Auckland, etc.