THE Hauraki Plains Gazette. With which is incorporated THE OHINEMURI GAZETTE. Motto: Public Service. MONDAY, WEDNESDAY. & FRIDAY. WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1929. LOCAL AND GENERAL

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXX, Issue 5497, 6 November 1929, Page 2

THE Hauraki Plains Gazette. With which is incorporated THE OHINEMURI GAZETTE. Motto: Public Service. MONDAY, WEDNESDAY. & FRIDAY. WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1929. LOCAL AND GENERAL

John Connor appeared in Court this morning before Messrs P. E. Brenan and E. Edwards, J’s.P., charged with being drunk, and also with being idle and disorderly. Accused pleaded guilty, and after being cautioned, and on promising to leave the town, was convicted on both charges and ordered to come up for sentence if called upon within six months.

New Zealand horses, Nightmarch, Paquito, and Phar Lap, gained first, second, and third places in the, Melbourne Cup, which was run yesterday. Nightmarch won by three lengths from the'fast-finishing Paquito, with Phar Lap a length away third.

The Railway Department is running an excursion from Frankton to Waihi, Tauranga (Strand), and Mt. Maunganui on Sunday next at cheap fares. Particulars are advertised in this issue. '

People of imperfect hearing from now on will be able to use the telephone as easily as those whose hearing is perfect. An Order-in-Council in the last issue of. the Gazette amends the Electric Line Regulations to provide that special amplifying telephones and apparatus for use by persons of imperfect hearing may be provided subject to special payment. ■

The House of Representatives has given attention to the wishes of the Municipal Association in regard to the Urban Farmlands Rating Bill. The matter is now to be deferred until the Municipal Association has had the opportunity of making a more thorough examination of the Bill’s provisions.

At yesterday’s meeting of the Thames Valley Power Board the engineer stated in answer to questions asked in letters for comparisons of costs between flat-i’ate and meter service, that as the meters had only been installed for two months, and at that only in some places, it was not as yet possible to give a full comparison. It would not be possible to get a final comparison as far as milking was concerned until the meters had been in operation 12 months.

The chief inspector of schools, acting upon information supplied to the Auckland Education Board by the headmaster of the Hikutaia School, Mr E. Turner, has arranged that Hikutaia will be the proficiency examination centre for the area this year.

Improvements to Torehape Road are now being undertaken by the Lands Drainage Department. At the top end of the road sections which were lowered when the fires last summer burned the peat are being raised, and the whole road is being widened. Although the drain bridges are not very strong, and notices are posted closing the road to vehicular traffic, cars use the road despite the rough state of sections at each end. The Auckland Ladies’ Hockey Association has handed down its finding in connection with the appeal against the decision of the Hauraki Plains Ladies’ Hockey sub-Association by the Kerepeehi Club concerning the action of the Kopuarahi Club in playing a girl whose qualifications were in doubt. The Auckland body considered a letter which it had received direct from the Kerepeehi Club, and on this evidence directed the Plains Association to reconsider its decision. The local association set about securing full particulars, but in the meantime the Auckland Association has considered further communications and has now advised the Kerepeehi Club that its protest has succeeded and in consequence it has won the inter-club competition. The Kopuarahi Club proposes to appeal to the N<Z. Hockey Association.