THE Hauraki Plains Gazette With which is incorporated THE OHINEMURI GAZETTE. Motto: Public Service. MONDAY, WEDNESDAY, & FRIDAY. MONDAY, JULY 29, 1929. LOCAL AND GENERAL

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXX, Issue 5454, 29 July 1929, Page 2

THE Hauraki Plains Gazette With which is incorporated THE OHINEMURI GAZETTE. Motto: Public Service. MONDAY, WEDNESDAY, & FRIDAY. MONDAY, JULY 29, 1929. LOCAL AND GENERAL

Efforts are being made to have a geological survey made of the Waihi goldfields area by Mr D. K. Henderson, preparatory to commencing proposed diamond drilling operations in the early summer. It is also suggested that a Waihi prospecting and minting development company should be formed to raise funds to aid the scheme. “It is a pqor look-out for a country which is governed by men of average intelligence, because the average is very low,” declared Professor Murphy, of Victoria College, in an address at Wellington on “Public Expenditure,” before the Dominion Executive of tht Farmers’ Union. He explained that intelligence tests had recently been made in the United States, and it had been proved that the average intelligence of the population ‘ was about equivalent to a boy of 13 years of age. The N.Z. Treasury has received in the form of conscience money 5s forwarded through the .High Commissioner for New Zealand, London; £5 forwarded to the General Post Cfficc; and £4 and 2s forwarded to the Railway Department. Coming events cast their shadows before. The specifications for the new bridge on the Main Trunk at Ngaruawahia call for a single track. This would appear to be a significant sign that the duplication of the line the whole way from Auckland to Hamilton is not contemplated. The constantly increasing freight traffic has to be coped with in some manner in the not too distant future. Does this mean that at last the PaeroaPokcno agitation is to come into its long-deserved own ? An unfortunate fatal m<shap to the infant son of Mr and Mrs R. J. Andrew, Palmerston North, on July 16, occurred. The father of the child had been panering one of the rooms of his home and had left the steps in the room. Mrs Andrew did not know that the baby, who was two years eight months old, had gone into the room. Q he was at the front of the house and when she heard a cry wen! to the baby to find it had fallen off the steps. The child hit the back portion of his head, probably striking the bedstead. When admitted to the hospital there was a profuse leak of brain fluid from the right ear. Conditions gradually became worse until death ensued. Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure First aid for coughs, colds, influenza.