THE Hauraki Plains Gazette With which is incorporated THE OHINEMURI GAZETTE. Motto: Public Service. MONDAY, WEDNESDAY, & FRIDAY. MONDAY, AUGUST 26, 1929. LOCAL AND GENERAL

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXX, Issue 5466, 26 August 1929, Page 2

THE Hauraki Plains Gazette With which is incorporated THE OHINEMURI GAZETTE. Motto: Public Service. MONDAY, WEDNESDAY, & FRIDAY. MONDAY, AUGUST 26, 1929. LOCAL AND GENERAL

The question whether to amend the pensions law to provide pensions for those returned soldiers who are broken in health and unable to prove that their disability is due to war service will be considered by the Government in the near future.

There are now three commercial aviation companies operating in the Dominion. The Air Survey and Transport Co., Ltd., Auckland, which owns a D.H. 60x Moth aeroplane and carries out photographic surveys in addition to air-taxi work ; the Southern Cross Airway, Ltd., with one Blackburn Bluebird Genet; and the Hamilton Airways, Ltd., Hamilton, with a D.H. 60x Moth, the ’plane that visited Paeroa some weeks ago. The two latter companies undertake short passenger flights only.

Criminal statistics for the year ended December 31 last show an increase of 158 in the number of prosecutions against hotelkeepers, compared with the preceding year. There were 667 prosecutions, resulting in 361 convictions during 1928, as against 509 prosecutions and 292 convictions in 1927. There were thirty-seven prose cutions for selling liquor without license. resulting in thirty-six convictions, and there were also fifty prosecutions, resulting in forty-four convictions, for other offences against the provisions of the Licensing Act in force in no-b’cense districts. The fines imposed on sly-grog sellers amounted to £BB2.

Excluding widows and teacher’s of Grade 0 schools, there are 117 married women teachers, and seven married couples, employed by the Auckland Education Board.

With the advent of the motor age the growth of service stations and “bowsers” has shown remarkable advance in recent years. The idea of giving service to fountain-pen users, however, is a new one. A Wanganui firm of stationers has instituted the first “bowser” for fountain-pens, and at this the customer may fill his pen, free of charge, from any of four inkwells, being given the choice of blue, red, green, or purple ink. It is a novel idea, and appears to be a very popular* rendezvous.

“In the good old days, when the stick was wielded often and with vigour, people got their proficiencies because they had to,” said Miss Park at the meeting of the Wellington Federation of Educational Associations last week. “Nowadays there is a new system, more civilised, in vogue, and this is wrapped up with the need for* smaller classes and stability of staffs. I can tell you . that the child who thinks that its opinions are equal to those of its parents is a problem at school.”

There was no tender message of farewell (writes a Sydney correspondent). There was no explanation of a hurried departure. All the nurse found was a pair of silk pyjamas. And that is how George Nepia, the All Black full-back, left a Darlinghurst private hospital. The Maori lad was sent to hospital following the recent match at Armidale. So serious was his condition that he was labelled a pneumonia case. Nepia was so ill that a nurse was told off to take his temperature every two hours. The fullback did not like thermometers, so he just left. Eventually a distracted nurse heard that the footballer had found his way back to the rest of his mates at the Mansions Hotel—minus a pair of silk pyjamas.

A Government scheme provides for the metalling of the road between Patetonga and Kaihere next year. When this work is completed there will be a metalled road all the way between the former place and Paeroa. The road from Patetonga to MorHnsville is already metalled.

Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure First aid for coughs, colds, influenza