LOCAL AND GENERAL

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXX, Issue 5461, 14 August 1929, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

The sum of 2s 6d from “Orphan” has been added to the Borough Council’s Earthquake Fund, making the total £l5B 4s 3d.

At the weekly meeting of the Paeroa Rugby Union’s management committee on Monday it was decided that the application of the Marathon Club to play a junior team be left in the hands of the secretary to make inquiries from Mr E. V. Slyfield, and report at the next meeting. The arrangements for the Waikato-Thames Valley match were also left in ’ the hands of the secretary to arrange with the secretary of fhe Thames Valley Rugby Union, with the re joiner that the Paeroa Union would fall in line with xybat was adopted. Last Sat ui’day’s matches. between East and Suburbs juniors in the Williams Cup round, and United v. Suburbs thirdgrade, were awarded to the first-men-tioned in each case, as Suburbs teams did not turn up Accounts totalling £6 10s were passed for payment

At the meeting of the Thames Hospital Board bn Monday notification of the admittance, as urgent cases of four patients from the board’s district 1 Was received from the Waihi Hospital Board. Three of these cases were approved without question, but the other, that of a Paeroa man, aaed 67, who had been a patient at Thames with heart trouble and who had walked out of the hospital and gone to Waihi, where he had had a relapse, it was decided to accept liability until such time as he was fit enough to be sent on to the Thames Hospital. The facts of the case were well known to members, and it had happened'that a member was in the Waihi Board’s office when admittance was sought.

In a recent law case a judge remarked that the prisoner had spent a dissolute and -wasted life. His Honour was probably correct, but under the circumstances it is interesting to discover just what an average man who attains the age of 72 does with his life. In the first place he sleeps for 23 years 4 months. He spends six years travelling and four years in being ill. It takes him no less than two years to dress, and six years two mo.nths to eat. This does not leave very many years for anything else, but in the remaining period of life he generally -works for 18 years 8 months, and spends a solid nine years eight months in recreation and amusement.

Mr E. A. Chester was the successful tenderer - for the erection of the Waihou sub-station workshops extension' in connection with the Arapuni power supply;

On a charge of unfairly packing cauliflowers for the market, Sun Hing fined £lO by Mr E. Page, S.M., in the Wellington Magistrate’s Court last week.'