THE Hauraki Plains Gazette. With which is incorporated THE OHINEMURI GAZETTE. Motto: Public Service. MONDAY. WEDNESDAY. & FRIDAY. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1929. LOCAL AND GENERAL

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXX, Issue 5486, 11 October 1929, Page 2

THE Hauraki Plains Gazette. With which is incorporated THE OHINEMURI GAZETTE. Motto: Public Service. MONDAY. WEDNESDAY. & FRIDAY. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1929. LOCAL AND GENERAL

The Paeroa Municipal Swimming Baths will be opened for the season to-morrow.

The new refreshment rooms at the Paeroa railway station were officially opened this morning.

The local Earthquake Relief Fund closes at the Borough Office to-mor-row.

News has been received that owing to the date suggested and the splendid swimming baths at Paeroa there is every likelihood that the two champion Australian swimmers, Ryan and Grier, will be here early in December.

It now takes £1 12s Id on the average to purchase what could have been purchased in July, 1914, according to the Abstract of Statistics for September.

The first batch of Auckland unemployed arrived to work on the Hauraki Plains yesterday, twenty men going into camp at Ngarua Landing. They will be employed on drain work under the Lands Department.

Since the last meeting of the Paeroa Borough Council the following building permits have been granted : J. P. Gamble, to erect a garage," Willoughby Street; Street and Street, to erect brick office, Flora Street, for Vacuum Oil Company, Ltd.; R. I. Roberts, to repair dwelling, Belmont Road, owned by Mrs C. Keller; A. Scott, to repair roof of dwelling Wharf Street, owned by Mr W. Sorensen ; W. Chamberlain, to erect a garage, Albert Street; Shell Oil Company, to erect three additional storage tanks, Coronation Street. The value of the above permits amounts to £l5BB. The value of permits granted for the half-year ended 30th September, 1929, amounted to £4,786 10s.

Settlers of the Huirau Point, Turua, who have been agitating for some time to have the Waihou River stop-bank continued northward to connect with the Hauraki United Drainage Board’s bank, have been advised that a gang of 100 unemployed men will be sent to the district in the very near future to construct the bank by hand labour.

The Te Aroha Tennis Club is divided on the subject of tennis being played on Sundays, and it has been decided by the committee to arrange a postal ballot to decide the question.

There are at present seventeen unemployed men on the Waihi list, twelve of them being urgent cases (says the Waihi Telegraph). The Mayor (Mr Wallnutt) has wired to Mr A. M. Samuel, M.P. for Thames, regarding the promise made by the Hon. E. A. Ransom, Minister for Public Works, to place a number of these men on relief works in the district. So far the Minister has evidently not communicated with the Public Works Department at Paeroa on the subject, as the engineer advises the Mayor that he has received no authority to go on with any work.

A meeting of all those interested in forming a Paeroa branch of the N.Z. Labour Party will be held in the Soldiers’ Club to-morrow night. Active branches are already in existence at Waihi, Thames, and Kerepeehi.