LOCAL AND GENERAL

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXX, Issue 5478, 23 September 1929, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

To-day being Dominion Day, Government offices and local bodies are flying the national ensign.

The annual meeting of the Paeroa Tennis Club will be held in the Centenary Hall to-morrow night.

The Mayor, Mr W. Marshall, and Cr. H. J. Hare have been invited to make the trip from Auckland to Paeroa by air with the visiting Auckland Aero Club flight. Cr. Hare’s brother, Mr L. M. Hare, will make the journey in the aeroplane piloted by Major Cowper.

In another column appears a notice from the Associated Agencies stating that as the firm is going out of the hardware business, it has that part of the firm’s stock to dispose of. Through a typographical error in our Friday’s issue the advertisement read as though the firm itself was going out of business. This is entirely incorrect ; only the hardware side was meant.

A meeting of the committee of the Paeroa Swimming Club was held in the president’s office on Friday last, when the balance-sheet and report to be brought before the annual meeting on Friday next was approved. A number of recommendations for the forthcoming season were also prepared.

On Tuesday last the work of dry-ing-out the second unit at Arapuni was completed, and only a few adjustments are now necessary. It vrtrt expected that the unit would be generating power- for general consumption within a week. It is expected that the diversion tunnel at Arapuni will be closed again this week in connection with the tests that are being carried out to combat the effect of the erosion below the spillway.

Claiming that he has not been able to get to sleep at an early hour during the past week owing to people ringing him up offering to sell him a windmill, a Turua fanner has asked us to announce that he has obtained a suitable mill. His advertisements, costing 2s 6d, appeared in last week’s issues of the “Gazette.”

The net loss on the Revenue Account of the Hauraki Plains Settlement Account for the year ended March 31, 1929, was £20,597 15s sd, while the debit balance from the previous year was £64,107 11s Id, against which there is a sinking fund reserve of £4837 13s Bd.

Daylight saving, it is fondly hoped in some quarters, will this session become.a permanent institution in New Zealand by Act of Parliament. The late King Edward VII. was a firm believer in daylight saving. All the clocks at Sandringham were always kept half an hour ahead of Greenwich time by His Majesty’s orders. The King deplored the way in which the first hours of daylight were wasted, and in the last two years of his life caused the same rule to be observed at Windsor and Balmoral.

The balance-sheet of the Hauraki Plains Settlement Account sets out the values of the Lands Department’s plant on the Hauraki Plains as follows : Buildings, £6429 Is Id ; machinery and plant, £51,061 15s lid ; live stock, £147 10s ; loose tools, £361 7s lOd ; stores and fuel, £7370 19s 7d ; while the wharves which the County Council has under offer of purchase for the sum of one shilling are valued for balance-sheet purposes at £4799.

Apropos of the intended flight of Auckland Aero Club machines in search of landing grounds, the club has received acknowledgments from a number of local bodies. The Mayors of Cambridge, Gisborne, Paeroa, Te Aroha, Te Awamutu, and Wanganui have signified their willingness to arrange conferences. Morrinsville has had to be eliminated from the programme, as pilots report that no convenient landing ground is available.

Engineering and land surveys carried out by the staff attached to the Lands Drainage Department on the Hauraki Plains during the past year required 14i miles of theodolite survey (chiefly in connection with the flax-planting areas), 31 miles of compass survey, 80 miles of levels, and 16J miles of cutting. Over 300 crosssections of river and canals were taken and 130 borings were made for sub-soil investigation. River stage records and discharge measurements were obtained as required for flood control investigations.

Fifty-two settlers hold grazing leases from the Lands Drainage Department on the Hauraki Plains, the total area being 9931 acres. Nine areas, totalling 3095 acres, are leased for flax, and on these the annual rental totals £1587 3s. The grazing leases produce £567 7s annually.

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