THE Hauraki Plains Gazette With which is incorporated THE OHINEMURI GAZETTE. Motto: Public Service. MONDAY, WEDNESDAY, & FRIDAY. FRIDAY, AUGUST 9, 1929. LOCAL AND GENERAL

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXX, Issue 5459, 9 August 1929, Page 2

THE Hauraki Plains Gazette With which is incorporated THE OHINEMURI GAZETTE. Motto: Public Service. MONDAY, WEDNESDAY, & FRIDAY. FRIDAY, AUGUST 9, 1929. LOCAL AND GENERAL

The first of the season’s lambs are to be seen in the Paeroa Domain. Further to the question put in the House by Mr A. M. Samuel, M.P., to the Minister of Marine relative to the rising of the sea bed off Whangamata by at least 100 feet, and which might be a danger to shipping, the Hon. Mr J. G. Cobbe replied that Captain Boltons, of the Government lighthouse tender “Tutanekai,” would take soundings in the vicinity. When the Ngatea third-grade football team played in Paeroa about three weeks ago several players had gear stolen. One boy tost a new jersey, shorts, and a grip, while several tost boots. Last Saturday one boy tost a £1 note from his coat pocket while he was dressing. The Chief Scout, Lord Baden Powell, will visit Australia and'New Zealand at the latter end of 1930 if the Dominions so desire. Some large pieces of machinery and ironwork, constituting as a whole what was a crusher at the old Grand Junction mine, are passing through Paeroa by lorry en route to Maratoto for re-erection there. Although it is now some considerable time since the Postmaster-Gen-eral visited Kerepeehi and promised that something would be done immediately te ensure privacy for telephoning and sending telegrams, nothing has yet been done ; neither has the posting box been removed from a telegraph pole to the post office. The recent general election expenses amounted to £28,495 and the licensing poll to £12,728, while the preparation and printing of electoral rolls absorbed £30,817. The Electoral Department’s expenditure in the electoral year totalled ££91,000, but the current vote is £9965. The chairman of the Hauraki Plains County Council, Cr. C. W. Harris, mentioned at yesterday’s meeting of the council that in company with the clerk, Mr E. A. Mahoney, he proposed visiting Wellington on business in connection with subsidies for that county t<-morrow. Mr A. W. Hall, M.P., had arranged for them to interview the Minister of Lands and the Minister of Public Works on Monday and Tuesday next. The sum of £5 13s 9d was raised by the Ngatea branch of the Plunket Society yesterday afternoon at the. monthly meeting of members, when a “bring and buy” sale was held. In the review on “All Quiet on the Western Front,” which appeared in Wednesday’s issue, the words “to visually disabuse the lay mind of the horrors of war” should have rend “to visually disabuse the lay niind of the heroics of war.” The season has arrived when parts of Hauraki Plains suffer from a plague of the common earth-worm, and settlers mention that this winter, the numbers were greater than ever, although the area affected was less. Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure For Children’s Hacking Cough.