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

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXX, Issue 5457, 5 August 1929, Page 2

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

As a result of a suggestion front the Main Highways Board the Ohinemuri County Council is considering the question of the appointment of a traffic inspector to operate in Ohinem.uri and adjacent counties in the same manner as one serves eight counties in the Hawke’s Bay district. The council is inviting the opinion on the subject of Coromandel, Hauraki Plains, Taurnnga, and Thames county councils, and the boroughs of Tauranga, Thames, Paeroa, and Waihi.

A sad bereavement befell Mr and Mrs R. Hounslow, of Willoughby Street, yesterday morning, when theirinfant son died suddenly after a few days’ illness at the age of 20 months.

Plans are being mooted for the erection of a municipal hall and council chambers at Te Aroha. A poll may have to be taken, but there seems little doubt that the majority of burgesses are in favour of the project.

Says “Mark” in the Te Aroha News, commenting on the PaeroaPiako junioi’ match played the Saturday before last “Piako juniors should not take the lead from their opponents and yell advice or discouragement to their own men. From a spectator’s’ point of view Rugby becomes cheap and undignified when such is the case.” And most heartily does public opinion support him. New Zealand has unwittingly imported a lot of pests, such as rabbits, blackberry, etc., and desires not the introduction of Australian “barracking” or the United States of America’s spectator tactics. The pests should be stopped effectively before the disease spreads.

At the first Auckland Chambers of Commerce Provincial Conference the follov ing remit ’ was tabled by the Waihi Chamber and passed : “That in the opinion of this conference the Government should hold a conference of geologists and mining engineers with a view to determining by what means, and in what.localities, efforts should be made to resuscitate and develop the mining industry.” Coromandel, Kaikohe, Otorohanga, and other unimportant centres were represented, but alas ! a perusal of the whole list fails to bring to light the name of Taeroa. Paeroa is fighting for just recognition, and sadly has Paeroa been let down.

The nomination of Mr G. Buchanan for the Paeroa Ward on the N.Z. Cooperative Dairy Co.’s board of directors has been received by that body. Nominations closed on Wednesday. Owing to the success attending the tom- of the last commerce train through the Auckland province, the metropolitan Chamber of Commerce has decided to run another one in November. Paeroa will be included in the itinerary, and a tour of inspection will be made of the proposed PaeroaPokeno line.