THE Hauraki Plains Gazette With which is incorporated THE OHINEMURI GAZETTE. Motto: Public Service. MONDAY, WEDNESDAY. & FRIDAY. MONDAY, JULY 8, 1929. LOCAL AND GENERAL

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXX, Issue 5445, 8 July 1929, Page 2

THE Hauraki Plains Gazette With which is incorporated THE OHINEMURI GAZETTE. Motto: Public Service. MONDAY, WEDNESDAY. & FRIDAY. MONDAY, JULY 8, 1929. LOCAL AND GENERAL

• The Auckland Rugby Football Union, has advised the Thames Valley Union that as Messrs R. G. Buchanan and T. V. Vangioni are residents within the latter union’s boundaries they should play for it. The Auckland Union has advised the Thames Union to that effect. This matter was referred to the Auckland Union at the last meeting of the Thames Valley Union, and the above decision settles a question which originated at the beginning of the present season.

A concert and picture night in aid of the Business Queen will be held in the Aurora Theatre, Paeroa, to-mor-row night. Leading outside and local artists are billed to appear, a splendid programme being assured.

The post office at Paeroa has been gazetted a place where beer duty shall be paid, received, and collected. The othei’ places in the Auckland district are the Customshouse, Auckland, and the post offices at Hamilton and Te Awamutu. This is further proof of Paeroa being considered a main centre.

On Friday an Auckland Aero Club Moth aeroplane passed over Paeroa. The ’plane, which was on a flight from Tauranga to Auckland, was piloted by Major Cowper, who had Colonel J. E. Duigan, D. 5.0., as a passenger. At Tauranga the aeroplane landed and took off from the beach, which, if it were not for the power poles there, would be one of the best flying fields in the Dominion.

In giving his verdict on the death of the Maori girl who died at Te Moananui’s Flat, and which appeared in the issue of the “Hauraki Plains Gazette” on Friday last, the coroner, Mr F. E. Flatt, stated the name of Te Moananui tribe. It should have been Ngahutoitoi tribe of Ngahutoitoi Pah on Te Moananui’s Flat.

A Plains farmer who has experienced the difficulty of getting paspalurn seed to grow, and who has noticed the vigorous growth of the self-sown seed along the roadsides, has adopted the idea of transplanting the clumps of paspalum from the roadsides.

From the 11th to the 28th June, 1929, N.Z. Naturalisation papers were granted to two Danes, two Germans, two Italians, one Jugo-Slav, one Norwegian, one Swede, and one Syrian.

Owing to the prevalence of influenza the Plains representative of the “Hauraki Plains Gazette ’ states that his job is one long wild goose chase. Meetings of local bodies, conferences of local bodies, meetings of associations, committees, and even clubs, during the last few weeks have been postponed or have lapsed for want of a quorum owing to the illness of members.

In the written part of the last Plumbers’ Board examination Wanganui had the highest percentage of passes with 80 per cent., and in the practical Greymouth came first with 100 per cent.

Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure For Children’s Hacking Cough.