THE Hauraki Plains Gazette. With which is incorporated THE OHINEMURI GAZETTE. Motto: Public Service. MONDAY, WEDNESDAY, & FRIDAY. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1929. LOCAL AND GENERAL

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXX, Issue 5485, 9 October 1929, Page 2

THE Hauraki Plains Gazette. With which is incorporated THE OHINEMURI GAZETTE. Motto: Public Service. MONDAY, WEDNESDAY, & FRIDAY. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1929. LOCAL AND GENERAL

At the Paeroa Magistrate’s Court on Monday judgment for plaintiff by default was given in the following cases : J. F. Rush v. W. Pearcey, 12s 6d and 8s costs ; Robson Bros. v. Geo. Pakinga, £lO 6s lOd and £1 8s costs ; Robson Bros. v. R. Paaka, £6 18s 4d and £1 costs.

For riding a motor cycle without a sufficient silencer on the exhaust Richard Edwards was fined £2 and 12s costs at the Hamilton Magistrate’s Court last week.

In common with other Government works, the Lands Drainage Department, Kerepeehi, has been asked to find work for unemployed men, but as yet no advice has been received as to whether any men will be sent to the Hauraki Plains.

Expenses totalling anything up to £3OO are expected to be incurred in the ceremony in connection with the opening of the Auckland War Memorial Museum. The opening, which will be performed by the Governor-Gen-eral, Sir Charles Fergusson, has been fixed for Thursday, November 28.

The Turua Plunket Society’s king and queen carnival is proceeding steadily, and money is being raised by all .manner of means, including the collection of bobby calves. House parties are .held at frequent intervals. On Saturday next the society is holding sports at Turua for the benefit of all the contestants. Included in the programme will be fancy dress football and hockey matches, tug-o’-war, footraces, and competitions of all kinds.

An instance of how stories are magnified as they pass from mouth to mouth was shown at Ngatea on Friday, when rumours were current in the township that a service car had run over the end of the Rawerawe wharf into the Piako River. No particulars were available as to how the passengers had fared, but it was hinted that they had probably been drowned, as the river is very deep at that point and the car was a closed one. Investigation showed that a service car had picked up a passenger and had experienced difficulty in turning, as there is no suitable place on Rawerawe Road. While endeavouring to turn near the wharf the car had gone forward further than was intended, and the front wheels had gone into the mud, where they sank rapidly until the radiator was partly submerged. Little difficulty was experienced in removing the car.

At the county abattoir during September 76 cattle (57 cows and 19 heifers), 149 sheep, 2 lambs, 1 calf, and 9 pigs were slaughtered. Fees received amounted to £4O 12s 2d, and fees for September £4B 7s sd.

During Septembei’ 35 cases ‘of explosives were issued from the county magazine and none received. Fees totalling £7 2s 8d were received, and £4 15s for September.

An Auckland party visited the cinnabar deposits at Mackaytown yesterday and inspected a considerable portion of the ground, including several old and new shafts. A number of samples were taken for testing purposes. The visit was purely a prospecting one.

Anent the article which appeared in this paper recently concerning cattle eating earth, an instance has occurred at Kopuarahi, but in this case the cow died. From a post-mortem examination it was concluded that the cow had swallowed a piece of road metal about the size of a man’s fist, and this had punctured the wall of the stomach, and the dirt had been eaten in an effort to relieve what must have been intense pain. The quantity of earth found was estimated to weigh about 141 b.

At the Paeroa Police Court on Monday Donald McGuinness, who did not appear, was accused of riding a bicycle on the footpath in Normanby Road. McGuinness was convicted and discharged, the police stating that as he was a stranger and his whereabouts unknown, it would probably cost the country more to find him than the fine would amount to.

A notice appears in the N.Z. Gazette revoking the prohibition of the exportation to China of arms, explosives, military stores, naval stores, and munitions of war of every description.

The Wellington Hospital Board has raised its maintenance fees from 9s 6d to 12s per day for adults, and from 4s 6d to 6s 6d per day for children.

For to-night the Paeroa Miniature Rifle Club has arranged a handicap competition for a trophy presented by Mr A. A. Jenkinson.

Five interments took place at the cemetery during September, and five sections were sold. Fees amounted to £5 15s, and sales of sections to £5 15s, making a total of £ll 10s.

"The woman, who out of scanty materials and under difficult conditions, produces a good dinner, has as much right to her full portion of. praise and appreciation as the woman who gets into the semi-finals at Wimbleton. But does she get it ? She does not,” writes Susan Ertz in the “Daily Chronicle.” “One of the bitterest things about housework, the care of children, or any common task, is the fact that the performers so rarely get thanked or rewarded for putting the best there is in them into it. Some day, when even the busiest and most hard-pressed woman has a little more leisure and a little more money for the graces of life, and living is looked upon as an art rather than a sordid struggle, more admiration and praise will be ceded to the woman who excels in it now than falls to her lot.”

After a day during which rain clouds hung all about the Hauraki Plains but no rain fell, farmers were gratified to hear gentle rain falling during last night. It will do a great deal of good.