THE Hauraki Plains Gazette With which is incorporated THE OHINEMURI GAZETTE. Motto: Public Service. MONDAY. WEDNESDAY. & FRIDAY. FRIDAY, AUGUST 2, 1929. LOCAL AND GENERAL

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXX, Issue 5456, 2 August 1929, Page 2

THE Hauraki Plains Gazette With which is incorporated THE OHINEMURI GAZETTE. Motto: Public Service. MONDAY. WEDNESDAY. & FRIDAY. FRIDAY, AUGUST 2, 1929. LOCAL AND GENERAL

Ten degrees of frost was experienced in Paeroa last night.

During .the last month there were 13 births, one death, and no marriages in Paeroa,' as against 8,2, 0, respectively, in July last year.

Prior to the departure of the Morrinsville party after the Farmers’ Qjieen on Wednesday night the members were entertained to supper by Mr and Mrs A. F. Steedman. The Farmers’ Queen, Miss Helen Matthews, was present, and during the course, of the evening one of the visitors added yet more territory to her already extensive domain by calling her the “Bobby Calf Queen.”

The weekly meeting of the Paeroa Rugby Union was held last night. In order to discuss and complete arrangements for the interprovincial match with Auckland to-morrow, the correspondence, and the minutes of the last meeting were deferred until next meeting. Details for to-morrow’s match were completed. A resolution of thanks was passed to Mr W. J. Pratley for his services to the union, and regret was expressed at his departure from Paeroa. Mr G. D. Frost was welcomed as the new delegate for Pirates.

Some days ago the “Hauraki Plains Gazette” reported a dead cow in the Rotokohu drain near the Te Aroha Road. It’s still there—very much so, in fact. In mute protest it proclaims its inauspicious and undesired presence far and wide. Yesterday the Ohinemuri County Council held a post mortem examination on the now decidedly obnoxious bovine. But the trouble is, as is usual with cattle; that go and inconsiderately get stuck in the mud and lay down to die, that that cow does not belong to anybody. Nobody wants it—nobody ever does in these circumstances. That cow just evolved itself out of the limpid waters of the Rotokohu drain and became an acknowledged fact, a fact realised and acknowledged regretfully by all who pass by, whether visually or olfactorily. The said council got quite worried about it. Who was going to remove the beast ? Deadlock! The engineer said the police had requested him to get his men to remove it, an invitation, the engineer feelingly added, he had not complied with. As it was absolutely none of the council’s business to send men round the countryside removing defunct cattle it was decided to inform the Health Inspector about it. And there the matter lies, and there also, in the Rotokohu drain lies the cow, unhallowed and unsung, but certainly humming ! In the Fleming Shield competition of the Primary Schools Rugby Union Paeroa will play Hauraki Plains at 1.30 to-morrow on the Domain. A movement is afoot among the settlers in a portion of the part of Tauranga County which borders on Ohinemuri for the inclusion of that territory into the latter county. The area embraces, roughly, from Bowentown across to Athcnree, but excludes those two townships, and then to a point south of Waihi. The seven-aside match between Paeroa schoolboys, to be played during the interval of to-morrow’s interprovincial match, has been arranged. Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure First aid for coughs, colds, influenza