THE Hauraki Plains Gazette With which is incorporated THE OHINEMURI GAZETTE. Motto: Public Service. MONDAY, WEDNESDAY. & FRIDAY. FRIDAY, JULY 26, 1929. LOCAL AND GENERAL

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXX, Issue 5453, 26 July 1929, Page 2

THE Hauraki Plains Gazette With which is incorporated THE OHINEMURI GAZETTE. Motto: Public Service. MONDAY, WEDNESDAY. & FRIDAY. FRIDAY, JULY 26, 1929. LOCAL AND GENERAL

Yesterday, during the lunch hour, a horse and trap was to be seen careering down Normanby Road The horse had taken fright and was entirely out of control of the youthful driver. The lad jumped clear’ just as the vehicle struck a wooden post on the outside of the pavement in front of Masters and Son’s and came to a sudden stop. The post was demolished, and the horse itself finished up at the shop window, which narrowly escaped being smashed.

Arrangements for a second tour of the Auckland province by a commerce train next November are well in hand. Accommodation will be provided for 67 members of the Auckland Chamber of Commerce, and there are only a few vacancies left. The tour will commence on Friday, November 15, and will conclude on Sunday, November 24. Side trips will be organised in addition to travel by rail. Places to be visited will include Te Aroha, Paeroa, and the route of the proposed Paeroa-Pokeno railway deviation.

The hockey matches between teams of ladies against men in aid of the Sports Queen ended in both being won by the men, the first game by 3 to 0 and the second by 2 to 0. ,

The Rev. E. R. Alexander, Methodist minister on Hauraki Plains, has received notice of transfer to Ohura, King Coutry. He will be leaving at the end of next week. Mr A. R. Thomas, of Ohura, will be his successor.

Football enthusiasts the world over try their hand at selecting representative teams, but it is fortunately seldom that any of them succeed in having their selection published in a city daily newspaper as the officially selected team. A Turua “selector” succeeded on Thursday morning, and from the city paper the list was copied by another paper in this district, so endless confusion has resulted. The proper team is as published in this paper. The membership of the New Zealand Farmers’ Union now stands at 18,815. This information was imparted at the conference of the Dominion Executive at Wellington this week. The Hauraki Plains school dental clinic at Ngatea was closed this morning, after being open for the last four weeks. The dental officer, Miss L. E. Ellis, returned to the Paeroa clinic today. “No one is allowed to wear their boots or shoes on their feet in a really nice Japanese restaurant,” said Mr J. Beveridge, of Wellington, who has just returned from the East. “You see, Tokio is being rebuilt after the great earthquake, and the streets in wet weather are pretty muddy, so it would never do to have everyone tramping over the gleaming floors and clean mats. There is a place provided for everyone’s footwear,' and it is quite common to see 1000 pairs of boots and shoes, all neatly tabled in an ante-room at the entrance. Each visitor is given a‘‘tab’ corresponding with the one on his shoes, but he has to pay his bill before he. gets his shoes.”

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