THE Hauraki Plains Gazette With which is incorporated THE OHINEMURI GAZETTE. Motto: Public Service. MONDAY. WEDNESDAY. & FRIDAY. MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1929. LOCAL AND GENERAL

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXX, Issue 5469, 2 September 1929, Page 2

THE Hauraki Plains Gazette With which is incorporated THE OHINEMURI GAZETTE. Motto: Public Service. MONDAY. WEDNESDAY. & FRIDAY. MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1929. LOCAL AND GENERAL

It is expected that a flight comprising six aeroplanes of the Auckland Aero Club, under the command of Major Cowper, will be made to Paeroa in about three weeks’ time. The object of the visit will be to search out and inspect various areas, which might be possible as landing grounds. This is a policy the club is energetically pursuing.

The Railway Department has decided to allow seats to be reserved for children under three years of age travelling with their parents or guardians. The usual registration fee of one shilling will be charged.

In an address given at Cambridge last week by Dr. Bernstein, of Morrinsvil’e, the speaker said : Consumption is contagious and is not inherited. Most of us can withstand a few germs from time to time without becoming ill, but frequent exposure to the germ, especially ur.der bad conditions; as when the system is lowered by drink, privation, or other sickness, will render the person liable to contract the disease.”

“There were 6276 inquiries for missing packets, and as the result of investigation 3728 were traced or satisfactorily accounted for,” states the annual report of the Post and Telegraph Department. “It is a remarkable fact that postal packets containing banknotes and other articles of readily negotiable value form a surprisingly large part of the unregistered mail matter carried by the Post Office. Such unregistered packets constitute a souice of continuous temptation to all persons, outside as well as inside the Post Office, through whose hands they pass.” According to advice received by the Auckland Education Board the Minister of Education has authorised grants for enlargements to two schools, one of which is the Ngatea District High School. In Prior. a during August there were four births, two deaths, and three marriages, as against nine, three, and four, respectively, the same month last year. Some indication of the decline in the kauri gum industry was given by Mr M. H. Wynyard, chairman of the Kauri Gum Control Board, in an address to merchants, diggers, and members of Parliament at Penrose. When the industry was at its best, he said, there were six or seven thousand diggers in the field, and tc.-day the number was probably reduced to about one-tenth. The European market for the gum for use in varnish and linoleum industries was dislocated by the war, and a quest had been in progress in the past few years for new, but smaller, markets. The Kauri Gum Industry Act of 1919 provided for the State purchase of gum from diggers and the disposal of the gum, and that had enabled the industry to keep going during its most difficult years, in spite of the disorganisation caused by the war.

For Influenza Colds. Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure

The post office lobby clock has made its return bow after a long absence. No guarantee is given as to how long it is to be with us this time.

The staff quarters at a local hotel were visited by a purloining prowler on Saturday, with, the result that one of the staff lost a sum of money.

Twenty-two millions of the world’s people died during the great influenza epidemic in 1918, stated Dr. Bernstein in his address at Cambridge last week on consumption.

Yesterday many people took advantage of the new roadway up Primrose Hill to ascend to the top. Many who undertook the wplk bad never been to the crown of the hill before, although having lived in Paeroa all or most of their lives. The state of the Bradford memorial, which so very few have seen close at hand, came in for some extremely scathing remarks.

A service officer of the Auckland Automobile Association will be in Paeroa on Wednesday to adjust members’ headlights. The adjusting will take place over a stretch of road opposite the Public Works Department's office.

Zn average of 150 lives in New Zealand are lost through drowning evr ry year, states a circular issued by the Dominion Council of the Royal life Saving Society. The Australian Commonwealth Statistician estimates the average value of life to the community at £2lOO, and on this basis New Zealand loses £615,000 worth of lives per annum.

Dr. Bernstein, of Morrinsville, during his address on tuberculosis at Cambridge last week, told the story of Dr. Bodington, who, a hundred years ago, advocated fresh air and rest as the treatment for consumption, and opened a little sanatorium, from which he secured remarkable results, but his colleagues were so infuriated e.t the thought, of the doctor having triumphed over something which they had, more or less, -failed in. that Bodingtun’s life was endangered and at last the strain on his nervous system became so great that he broke down, and his little sana torium had to be turned into a lunatic asylum.

The wild life of the Coromandel peninsula is evidently increasing. During recent tours throughout the district wild duck, opossums, weazels, quail, stoats, and pheasant have been seen in close proximity to the roads, whilst wild pigs are said to be nun erous this spring.

Mr E. G. Banks, ex-general manager of the Waihi Gold Mining Co. in New Zealand, and now representing the company in Siam and Malaya, is at present in London. He lift New Zealand for Singapore to look after the c nnpany’s tin mining interests ir the East. Mr Banks spent five weeks in Malaya and Siam, and then went to London to arrange for the necessary equipment to work a large alluvial tin area lately acquired by the Waihi and Tronoh Companies. He expects to be in England until the middle of September, and then will return to the East.

Illustrative of the increased export of New Zealand meat to the United States of America direct are the figures just published by the Meat Producers’ Board. For 10J months ended August 15 muttbn exports increased by 9437’carcases, and lamb by 55, iB6 carcases, over the same pern I last year. What will hapoen when the new United States tariff comes int? force remains to be seen.

“Along the lines of an all-enfolding kindliness, of good-will, in the cultivation of a universal sympathy, must we proceed if we would co-operate with the influences that are termed the factors of Evolution. The hunting spirit is a link with the godless past, when man maimed and persecuted and slew where and how he chose,” writes Mr Clifford W. Greatorex, in “Cruel Sports.’’ “We a» - e here not to destroy, but to protect, to appreciate, and to learn more and yet more of the beauty and the wonder of all life. It is difficult to believe that any man or woman who sets value by the Christian idea! can ever sanction the torture and the slaughtei’ of beasts and birds in the name of Sport.”