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

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXX, Issue 5496, 4 November 1929, Page 2

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

An Order-in-Council in the New Zealand Gazette of October 31 announces the consent to' the raising of a loan of £2300 by the Ohinemuri County Council to be known as the "Kaimanawa Water Supply Loan, 1929.” This loan is for the purpose of reticulating and supplying with ivater for domestic and stock purposes from water supplied at the county boundary by the Thames Coupty Couricil the dwelling-houses and farm lands situated within the rating area. In the same Gazette appears another Order-in-Council consenting to the raising of an £11,500 loan by the Thames County Council, to be designated the “Thames Valley Water Supply Loan, 1929,” for the same purpose as the Ohinemuri County Council loan, but within the Thames Valley water supply special rating area.

, . Owing to Mr B. Gwilliam’s clearing sale, advertised for Friday, Bth inst., clashing with A. Buckland and Son’s Turua sale, it has been altered to Thursdayj 7th.

The net result of the Catholic bazaar held at Te Aroha was £2,350. The cost of the Catholic school was £6OOO, and hall £2000., On the day of the laying of the foundation stone of the school £l4OO was in hand, and the bazaar has increased the amount to £3,750, which is rightly considered to be a magnificent result, which redounds to the credit of all the willing workers and contributors connected with it.

Perhaps the queerest sale that has ever taken placq in Napier, and which will certainly be chronicled as having been attended with most unexpected results, was made recently when a large number of tombstones were offered for disposal (says the Daily Telegraph). It is not often that an auctioneer is called upon to sell such articles, and it was expected that the only prospective purchasers interested would be members of the trade concerned with the erection of tombstones. It was surprising, therefore, to find a large gathering of the public present, and the salesman found himself amid a mass of eager buyers. Members of the trade, instead of being present, were notable for their absence. Eager bidding prevailed throughout the sale and at the conclusion it was found that only four of the tombstones offered had failed to find appreciation in the eyes of those present. Whether the stones were purchased for erection in future years, or whether they are to be placed over the resting places of persons who have already departed this life is difficult to say.

“If there is any living man who can say, in the face of the living world around him, that he does not believe in the irresistible, enabling, marvellous certainty of Life, he can be left to his own devices (says the late Robert Keable, the novelist). It does not in the least matter that Life is inexplicable and incomprehensible. The fact is that, the more a man is alive, the more he knowg that he’s alive. The more he thinks and reads, the more he is struck by the achievements of life on earth. . . . Life everlasting seems more difficult, but the adjective is one upon which science, however reluctantly, is being more and more desperately driven

.... Christ himself was not annihilated, whatever happened on the third day after the crucifixion. His life has not merely been continuous — it has been ever-increasing. His thoughts, his message, his spirit, are enormously more alive to-day than ever they were when he lived on earth.”