THE Hauraki Plains Gazette With which is incorporated THE OHINEMURI GAZETTE. Motto: Public Service. MONDAY, WEDNESDAY, & FRIDAY. MONDAY, AUGUST 12, 1929. LOCAL AND GENERAL

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXX, Issue 5460, 12 August 1929, Page 2

THE Hauraki Plains Gazette With which is incorporated THE OHINEMURI GAZETTE. Motto: Public Service. MONDAY, WEDNESDAY, & FRIDAY. MONDAY, AUGUST 12, 1929. LOCAL AND GENERAL

• The Paeroa Hospital has now been completed as far as the Public Works Department is concerned, the department’s part having been confined to the actual erection of the building.

The Railways Department will take over the Westfield deviation, at Auckland, on September 2. The work has taken four years to complete, and has cost £500,000.

On the last day of the Queen Carnival £455 was handed in, including a donation of £3 13s from the Paeroa Defence Rifle Club to the Sports Queen.

The eost of naval defence this year is estimated at £504,967, as against £463,496 last year. Wages, etc., in connection with the Dunedin, Diomede, Philomel, and Nucula are estimated at £226,100, in comparison with an expenditure of £232,304 last year.

A long journey ended when Daniel le Roux died at Worcester, Cape Colony, recently. He was a tall, thin Africander who set out in 1922 with threepence in his pocket and accompanied by his wife to walk from Johannesburg round the world, pushing a. wheelbarrow before him. The pair passed through Hamilton last year, and had almost arrived at their starting when le Roux succumbed to exhaustion and strain.

It is estimated that about 3000 New Zealanders are now on a visit to England (according to a London paper). About 700 attended a reception in London to meet Sir James Parr, the High Commissioner. A New Zealand man, in close touch with the tourist traffic, said there had never been so many New Zealand visitors there before. Most of them stayed several months. The cost of a trip from New Zealand, including fares and hotel expenses cannot be much short of £5OO. This means that about £1,500,000 is being spent by New Zealanders on a trip to England.

A useful service, which is very much appreciated, is being performed by the ladies of the Turua branch of the Piurket Society who have adopted the practice of providing light luncheon and afternoon tea at the monthly stock sale held at the Turua yards. The venture is proving a source of steady income to the branch, for the charge made is a small one, and those doing business regularly at the saleyards have learned to depend on this service.

A lively debate ensued at the annual meeting of the Morrinsville Dairy Company on Monday last, when Mr N. Nehmann asked whether it was true that the organiser of the Mcrrinsville district for the Pig-market-ing Association received a shilling for every pig sent from Morrinsville. The chairman, Mi’ J. E. Leeson, sail this was the case, and the organiser earned it. From the money he received the organiser had to pay all trucking, advertising, and travelling cists. Last season, of a total of 43,000 pips handled by the association 9100 came from the Morrinsville district. The next most successful organiser was at Matamata, where 6000 pigs ware secured/