THE Hauraki Plains Gazette With which is incorporated THE OHINEMURI GAZETTE. Motto: Public Service. MONDAY. WEDNESDAY. & FRIDAY. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 28, 1929. LOCAL AND GENERAL

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXX, Issue 5467, 28 August 1929, Page 2

THE Hauraki Plains Gazette With which is incorporated THE OHINEMURI GAZETTE. Motto: Public Service. MONDAY. WEDNESDAY. & FRIDAY. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 28, 1929. LOCAL AND GENERAL

If a tree falls on a high tension power line and the result is that someone is killed, the owner of the tree is responsible for the damage. This statement was made to the WanganuiRangitikei Electric Power Board at a meeting last week by Mr W. Morrison. The well-known yacht Carnegie, which is on a world cruise, will arrive in New Zealand early next year, and is due in Lyttelton on February 10. Captain J. P. Ault is in command of the ship, which is being sent out by the Department of Terrestrial Magnetism of the Carnegie Institute. Magnetic surveys and investigations into the nature of the sea floor form the principal part of the work carried out. The Carnegie has twice visited New Zealand in the course of long world cruises. She is unique in having practically no iron or steel in her construction, al! heavy metal being non-magnetic. The first shipment of frozen beef left New Zealand on February 15, 1882. On that date the ship Dunedin (Captain Whitson) was despatched from Port Chalmbers for London, where the cargo, consisting of 4311 sheep, 598 lambs, and 22 pigs, arrived in excellent condition. Amongst a jumble of goods in a pawnshop at Paddington, Sydney, has been located a gold watch and chain belonging to the late Mr H. S. Hitchcock, who lost his life with Lieutenant Anderson when the aeroplane Kookaburra was forced to land in Central Australia. The watch was a treasured possession of Mi’ Hitchcock’s, and he had it with him when he died. How it came to be in the pawnshop is a mystery. Mrs Hitchcock, who ’ives in Western Australia, declared that when she received her dead husband’s possession the watch and chain were missing, and inquiries were instituted at once in an effort to find the missing articles. A widespread search was fruitless until a visit to the Paddington pawnshop revealed then. The watch and chain have, of course, been redeemed and forwarded to Mrs Hitchcock. An anti-noise by-law is about to be adopted by the Melbourne City Council. The by-law aims at the suppression of unnecessary street noise, and provides that for any person to sing or harangue, to sound or play upon any musical or noisy instrument, or to make a violent outcry shall constitute an offence. Wireless sets, gramophones, and piano-players are mentioned as instruments which shall not be allowed to create offensive noise calculated to “cause annoyance to any such other person as aforesaid.”

For Influenza Colds. Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure

A sequel to the collision in Ngatea on a Friday evening some weeks ago, when a motor-cyclist ran into a stationary motor-car in front of the Ngatea Hall, was heard at the Magistrate’s Court, Thames, yesterday morning. Leslie Henry Tucker, the cyclist, admitted that he had been guilty of negligent riding and of not having adequate foot-rests, and was fined £2 on the first count and 10s and costs on the second, the magistrate taking into account the fact that he had been seriously injured in the accident. The owner of the motor-car, the other vehicle concerned in the collision. Neville Mudgway, was fined £2 and 15s costs for having only one light on his car. The police stated that Mudgway was not to blame for the collision.

Trial runs of tiw second power unit at Arapuni and the drying out of the generator have commenced. The unit will probably be ready for service within a month’s time.

Mr Wesley Woolhouse, piano tuner, is now in the district, and orders left at this office will be promptly attended to.

A large meeting of Anglican churchmen was held in Hamilton on Monday to confer with a committee set up by them some months ago. It is understood that a strong resolution was passed unanimously pledging all present to support whole-heartedly the Bishop and the Church in the Supreme Court action which is set down for hearing during the present session.

An announcement was made in Wellington by Mr V. C. Smith, of Messrs Cadbury and Fry. Hobart, that a proposal to erect a factory in New Zealand is maturing. “There are three impoitant factors that must receive consideration,” he said. “Climate, transport, and the adjacency of markets <rould have a great weight in the choice of locality. As to climate, they have almost reached a decision that Wellington or somewhere south of Wellington had the most suitable conditions in that respect.

It may not be generally known that farmers seeking information regarding weather prospects in their locality are permitted to send telegrams to the weather bureau in Wellington. Telegrams addressed “Weather, Wellington,” and prepaid Is, will receive prompt attention, the information being telegraphed direct to applicant. Arrangements have also been made under these rates for information to be supplied by postmasters to aviators and aero clubs throughout New Zealand.

“Many advertisers imagine that it is wise to withdraw or curtail advertising during times of national excitement or depression (says Mr J. Murray Allisoc in “Second Essays on Advertising”). “They think that the public is sometimes too far up in the heights or toe far down in the depths to smoke, drink, eat, sleep, dress, play, or travel. They find in a general election or Stock Exchange panic a firstclass reason why they should draw in their advertising horns. They are wrong. The time to advertise is all the time. The experience of a most critical period of our history proved it.”

Most people take their theatrical entertainment as it is offered them without, worrying about how it is brought about or what it costs. In the case of a big professional company playing musical comedy the expenditure entailed (including fares by steamer and rail) may easily run into £l2OO to £l4OO a week, so that they must take over £2OO, and in some cases £250. per night to pay bare out-of-pocket expenses. It is no joke for amateurs to put on a musical comedy. This year the Wellington Amateur Theatrical Society produced one play only (“Oui’ Miss Gibbs”) and its expenditure (without having to pay any salaries to performers) ran into £866 10s 6d. Of that the Opera House expenses (rent, royalties, lighting, etc.) amounted to £291 Is 8d ; advertising and printing, £l’9 18s Id; stage hands and orchestra, £ll9 18s Id ; producer, £75 ; musical director and secretary, £2l each. The society lost £BB on the season.