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

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXX, Issue 5512, 11 December 1929, Page 2

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

At the meeting of the Thames Hospital Board on Monday the chairman intimated, in reply to Mr P. E. Brenan, that the Paeroa Hospital would probably be opened about March next. While playing with some other children on the way hofne from school yesterday afternoon Lucy Edwards, the six-year-old daughter of Mr W. G. Edwards, of Ngatea, met with a rather painful accident. It appears that while she was carrying another little girl on her back she tripped in the long grass and fell on a tin, which cut her knee very deeply,, necessitating several stitches. After being attended by Dr. Miller at Turua she was able to return home. Mr J. R. Noble', superintendent of the Ohinemuri Gold and Silver Mines, Maratoto, states that everything at the mine and crushing plant is running smoothly, and that between 50 and 60 men,are now engaged in the mine and some 30 in and around the mill. Last week about twelve' or thirteen hands employed in construction work at the mill were put off with the completion of the job, but the management found employment in the mill for all of them except the master carpenters.

Mr Walter Greening, late of Waiorongomai, and very well known at Te Aroha, has drawn a prize in Tattersails worth £4OOO (says the Te Aroha News). He drew the favourite in the Melbourne Cup, Phar Lap, which ran third. Mr Greening was for some time manager of the Waiorongomai mine property.

Ensilage making has this season become quite a common farm operation on the Hauraki Plains, and if the present progress is maintained rit will soon be easier to count the_ farms without stacks of silage than those with them. Farmers are finding the work involved much greater than in hay-making, and, that all their implements are not suitable for the heavier crop. Quite a number of farmers are making use of the tip given in this paper some weeks ago, and are using a sheet on the windward side of the stack to prevent unequal heating.

According to the Government Statistician, it would appear that a spirit of optimism is pervading the Dominion at the present time. “The number of marriages recorded for the first nine months of 1929 (8047) shows an increase of 376 over the corresponding period of last year,” he states in the “Abstract of Statistics” for November. “The marked recovery in this direction is significant, but more particularly so at the present time, as it reflects, to some extent at. least, that psychology of optimism which precedes or accompanies greater activity in business conditions. It should not be overlooked that the first nine months of 1928 were a lean period as far as marriages were concerned, the number recorded being below those. for the immediately preceding years.”