THE Hauraki Plains Gazette With which is incorporated THE OHINEMURI GAZETTE. Motto: Public Service. MONDAY, WEDNESDAY, & FRIDAY. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1929 LOCAL AND GENERAL

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXX, Issue 5470, 4 September 1929, Page 2

THE Hauraki Plains Gazette With which is incorporated THE OHINEMURI GAZETTE. Motto: Public Service. MONDAY, WEDNESDAY, & FRIDAY. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1929 LOCAL AND GENERAL

A number of prominent citizens of Matamata have decided to erect an up-to-date “talkie” picture theatre at a capital cost of £25,000. The sum of £15,000 has already been subscribed, and the balance is promised. The annual meeting of the Hauraki A. and P. Association will be held in the Soldiers’ Club this evening. All those interested, as well as members, are cordially invited to attend. A young Maori boy, the infant son of Mr and Mrs T. Taranaki, of Kaihere Landing, now lies in the Thames Hospital in a precarious condition as the result of pulling a basin of boiling water off the table over himself. By a singular coincidence a neighbour’s child, daughter of Mr A. Strong, ferryman at Kaihere Landing, is also in the hospital suffering from burns received in the same manner a week previously. “You people in this country do not want money; you are far too wealthy,’ satirically remarked a man who had a distinctly English air about him, at Wellington after the Welling-ton-Otago Rugby match on Saturday afternoon. The 13,000 spectators were streaming from the ground, and the few tramcars available were quite inadequate to convey the people who were waiting to get back to the city. “Here are thousands of us with money to pay for transport, and we can’t spend it,” he indignantly remarked. “If we were in London or Paris this little crowd would be shifted in five minutes. Come on, I suppose we will have to walk back to town,” and he joined the hundreds who were streaming on foot down Rintoul Street. Not only do we consume a great deal of canned fruit and vegetables from the United States, but that enterprising country even offers us its fresh fruits. There were on sale at Wellington last week gorgeous “Blue Diamond” plums (each one wrapped separately) at Is 4d from California, and alongside them were grapes also from the “Golden State” at 2s per lb. Other novelties on the market were green peas from Is 4d to Is 8d per lb (retail), and hot-house tomatoes at 2s 6d per lb. “I have come to the conclusion that the majority of the men are honest men, willing to work and hating the name of charity,” said the Pev. R. Inglis at the Wellington Rotary Club the other day, when speaking of the work of the Red Cross Unemployment Committee. “They only want to earn enough to keep body and soul together.” He related instances to show the distressing nature of the cases dealt with. “We do have men sometimes who waste their substance in riotous living, and we know how to deal with them. • also the sponger and the man with an insatiable appetite for drink. These are dealt with according to their deserts, although the last is often more to be pitied than blamed.” For Influenza Colds. Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure

The chairman, at the last meeting of the Thames Valley Power Board, remarked that there were hundreds of flat rate electric consumers using wireless sets without paying the £1 fee.

The money made by expert rabbit trappers, even in the district surrounding Matamata, is evidenced by the fact that a couple of young men who have been engaged at this work in the Matamata district for the last four years have saved £3OOO (states the Matamata Record). They have been making inquiries with a view to purchasing a farm in the district.

When a letter from a financial firm offering to raise money for it came before the Thames Valley Power Board at its last meeting, the chairman rema.’ked that pretty well every meeting the board received such letters offering money, adding that it was a much better position than when the board was chasing money

The alleged theft of a bent corkscrew and a worn table-knife, valued at one shilling, at Taringamutu on August 11, causing the whole machinery of the law to be put in motion occupied the attention of a judge and jury of 12 men, and caused five witnesses from the backblocks beyond Taumarunui to spend four days in Hamilton. The case came before the Hamilton Supreme Court last week, when Joseph William John Ross, 22, and Alfred Edward Nixon, 22, were charged with breaking and entering and stealing the articles mentioned, the prisoners, who had been in custody since August 11, were found not guilty.

At yesterday’s meeting of the Thames Valley Power Board the engineer, Mr N. G. McLeod, stated that the. board had small gangs employed in the Paeroa, Te Aroha, and Matamata districts. the main gang being at Waihi. It would be into December before the men had finished at the latter place, and a start would be made at Torehape before Christmas.

“We hear so much about the wonders of youth that it seems hard to suggest the real reason. But the real reason is that youth has been too much boomed. Our young people (and our middle-aged people, too) are nearly all of them Peter Pans. They are afraid of growing up. They want all the time to be irresponsible children,” writes Mr Frank Swinnerton, the novelist, in the “Evening News,” of London. “For this restlessness, from which two-thirds of the world is now suffering in one form or another, is due to worn nerves, exhausted by noise, and an over-peppered diet of life, and there is only one cure for it. This cure is a campaign for the extermination of all our fake Peter Pans. Fun, speed, noise, excitement, and pepper are all good things ; but we have had too much of them. What the world now needs is less childishness and more sense ; fewer hobbledehoys and more men and women. If our Peter Pans would try to grow up a little we should have .less restlessness and more real fun. We should also have a world fit for adults to live in.”