THE Hauraki Plains Gazette With which is incorporated THE OHINEMURI GAZETTE. Motto: Public Service. MONDAY, WEDNESDAY, & FRIDAY. MONDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1929. LOCAL AND GENERAL

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXX, Issue 5505, 25 November 1929, Page 2

THE Hauraki Plains Gazette With which is incorporated THE OHINEMURI GAZETTE. Motto: Public Service. MONDAY, WEDNESDAY, & FRIDAY. MONDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1929. LOCAL AND GENERAL

• Yesterday afternoon the Paeroa Cadet Band performed to an appreciative audfence at the children’s playground on the old railway station site. A meeting of the Paeroa Chamber of Commerce will be held in the Coronation Chambers to-morrow evening. The Hamilton Airways are advertising for a limited number of flying pupils. Should sufficient names be forthcoming the company will carry out instruction in Paeroa itself. Major G. A. Cowper, who, while with the Auckland Aero Club, trained the record number of pupils in New Zealand to qualify for their pilot’s .license, has joined the Hamilton Airways as its instructor, and it will be under his tuition that the training will be carried out.

A farm at the corner of the NgateaWaitakaruru road and Rawerawe Road, which was submitted to auction on Saturday last, was bought by Mr W. F. Jones, of Ngatea, for plus encumbrances as advertised.

With two broken ribs and suffering from laceration of an arm and shock, Mr A. Hudson, who is employed on the afforestation works at Whangamata, was admitted to the Waihi Hospital on Wednesday evening. Mr Hudson sustained the, injuries as the result of slipping from some rocks during blasting operations on the side of a road.

In the Turua Hall on Wednesflay evening a grand concert will be given. Such well-known Auckland artists as Mr James Simpson, tenor ; Mr Duncan Black, basso; Miss Alma McGruer, soprano; Miss Beryl Smith, contralto ; and Mr Dan Flood, humorist and entertainer, will render items.

In connection with the opening of the War Memorial Museum at Auckland on November 28 and 29 the Railway Department is issuing holiday excursion tickets. Particulars are advertised in this issue. 1

After having been closed from Monday to Thursday of last week for an extensive overhaul, the Pipiroa ferry ceased running on Saturday afternoon owing to the breaking of the main shaft in the winch. A start was made immediately to effect repairs, and the crossing is probably again available by now. .

In the electrical wiremen’s 1929 examinations Oamaru headed the list of passes in the written test with 33 per cent, and Wellington the practical with 46 per cent. At Paeroa four candidates sat for the written examination and five for the practical, all of whom failed. How hard the examinations were can be judged from the fact that out of & Dominion total of 318 entering for the whitten part only 50, or 16 per cent., passed, while in the practical part the entrants were 282 in number, of whom 39, or 14 per cent., passed. 5

“There is only one way to stop this offence—by haking it too expensive,” remarked His Worship, Mr Wyvern Wilson, S.M., in the Hamilton Magistrate’s Court on Friday, in fining Atha L. A. Dent, motor omnibus proprietor, for operating a motor lorry over the Hamilton-Matangi road, a road classified as a fifth-class road to carry a load not in excess of 21 tons. A fine of £5, with costs 10s, was imposed.

It is evident that farmers of the Hauraki Plains are beginning to become interested in silage. One Netherton farmer who has made stack ensilage for many years reports that during the past week seven of his neighbours have made inquiries on the subject.