THE Hauraki Plains Gazette With which Is incorporated THE OHINEMURI GAZETTE. Motto: Public Service. MONDAY, WEDNESDAY, & FRIDAY. MONDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1929. LOCAL AND GENERAL
In conversation with a representative of the “Gazette” yesterday, an orchardist on the Thames Coast said that this season, so far as apricots were concerned, is an early one, and he was now picking apricots that were not usually ripe before the middle of January.
Money spent outside the town by the Waihi Hospital Board has caused comment by local tradesmen, who have claimed that preference to them might have been given. Figures for the year ended last October show, however, that £5776 had been spent within the borough, and only £1144 outside. Of this there were hundreds of pounds for chemicals, drugs, etc.
A team of Melbourne lady bowlers is to visit New Zealand next month, having been invited over by the ladies’ bowling clubs of Dunedin, which city is about the only one in New Zealand where bowls are played by the fair sex.
At the last meeting of the Hauraki Plains County Council, the final one of the year, the chairman, Mr C. W. Harris, extended Christmas greetings to members, staff, all ratepayers in the county, and to the Press.
A local business man’s shop (says the Ngaruawahia Advocate) was visited last week by a very well spoken young Englishman, who said he was working on a farm. He bought a quantity of goods, and paid for them with the farmer’s cheque, receiving over £8 change. The cheque was a “dud,” and inquiries showed that the photo of the pleasant young man was in the police art gallery, and that he was an old hand at the game. He was subsequently arrested in Hamilton.
A herd of 3000 reindeer are making a fifteen-hundred-mile trek across America from Alaska to Canada, where they will be used to furnish food and clothing for inhabitants of Canada’s furthest north. It is only comparatively recently that the value of this animal, symbolical of Santa Claus, has been fully realised. In fact, Alaska itself only 25 years ago had scarecely a hundred reindeer altogether. But for reindeer many parts of the Arctic • would be uninhabitable to this day. Nbt only do they provide a reliable means of transport, carrying a 3001 b load at some ten miles an hour, but they provide practically every other necessary of life. They yield good milk. Their flesh makes excellent meat —so good, in fact, that there is talk of importing reindeer carcases into the cities of the United States at considerable profit to the Eskimos. Their skins supply clothing materials for the inhabitants of those cold countries, and even the harness used by the reindeer themselves is made from their hides.
The glorious weather of the last few days has made an active time for farmers. Hay-making was in progress everywhere yesterday.
The number of single women domestics assisted overseas during the year ended September 30 was 6834, of whom 4748 went to Canada, 1920 to Australia, and 184 to New Zealand. Their wages varied, averaging 14 dollars 45 cents a month in Canada, £4 8s in Australia, and £4 7s in New Zealand.
A party of Canadian bowlers will commence a tour of the Dominion in the New Year. They will arrive in Auckland on December 30, and after playing there and in North Auckland will go south. To show how prolific rats are, a “beacher” when cleaning up his washhouse at Puru yesterday came across a rat in a nest with a litter of no less than ten young ones. Small scores were registered in the cricket matches on the Plains on Saturday, for bowlers had a field day. Kaihere made 90 against Ngatea’s 52 ; Waitakaruru made 39, and dismissed Pipiroa for 12, of which H. Wallis made 6, and at Turua the Kopuarahi eleven made 67, and Lawrence, 4 for 4 and Gill 6 for 7, dismissed the home team for 16. The Ngatea-Kopuarahi school match was not played. In addition to the 427,337 .acres of land already open for selection, 10,164 acres will be made available during the present month. The areas to be opened are in the North Auckland, Taranaki, Hawke’s Bay, Wellington, Nelson, Canterbury, Otago and Southland provinces. The largest area to be offered will be 5300 acres under pastoral run license in the Kaweka and Pohui survey district, Hawke’s Bay. A number of town sections in various parts of the Dominion also figure in the offering. A reduction of over £200,000 in the working profits of the New Zealand Railways is shown by the accounts for 32 weeks of the financial year. Operations in the latest period ended November 9 have resulted in a loss of £23,518, the fourth and largest this year. Tn the corresponding period of last year there was a working profit of £39,853. The gross revenue for the October-November period was £573,733, which is £7537 more than last year, but the working expenses increased by £70,908 —to £597,251. Striking evidence of the extent to which motors have replaced horses in farm work may be seen on a trip across the Hauraki Plains at the present time, when hay-making operations are in progress. Tractors, trucks, and even cars may be seen drawing or pushing hay sweeps, and at places cars are being used to operate hay lifts. This latter operation must be very expensive, and is obviously only done because there is not a horse available.
“There are two difficult classes of men with whom we have to deal. There is the man who went away to war too young, without having had a chance to take his place in the economic, commercial, or social system, and who came back to nothing. Secondly, there is the man who enlisted at 57 years of age or so, and who cannot now get back,” said Mr J. S. Barton, S.M., chairman of the Soldiers’ Rehabilitation Commission, which heard further evidence at Wellington in regard to the position of the returned soldiers.
The population of the United States of America has been officially estimated at 120,013,000. The population of Great Britain and Northern Ireland was 45,318,000 in 1926.
Lord and Lady Bledisloe will sail by the Rangitiki, arriving at Auckland on March 19. Major Bathurst and the staff have pencilled passages by the Corinthic on January 30. Sir John Hanham has been appointed military attache.
Hay-making is now in full swing in all parts of the Hauraki Plains, and great crops are being harvested. In addition many farmers are still making silage.
The latest innovation in Wanganui is the erection of a motor service station, the station having been imported from America all ready to be fitted up. “We import these service stations,” remarked a resident.
During last week a gathering of young men of Paeroa was held in Mr W. Bain’s Rooms, the occasion being to farewell one of their number, Mr C. H. Vincent. During the evening Mr W. Neil, on behalf of those present, made a presentation of a leather suitease to the guest. Mr Vincent left on Wednesday for- Dargaville, where he will follow his occupation as a saddler.
Training in farm work will shortly be given to Taranaki girls at the Massey Agricultural College, according to a decision recently arrived at (says the New Plymouth News). Permission has been granted to use part of the Taranaki Scholarship Fund for Massey College bursaries. The New Plymouth High Schools Board last week discussed the syllabus which should be drawn up for girls who might qualify. The Minister of Education (the Hon. H. Atmore) advised that it could be arranged, if desired, for Taranaki scholarship-holders to attend Massey Agricultural College with the permission of the chancellor of the university. A later letter from the Minister stated that the Taranaki scholarship might be held at either of the agricultural colleges, provided that the chancellor approved of the tenure of the scholarship at one of them. It was decided that a sub-committee should be set up to go into the question with the heads of secondary schools in Taranaki, and to draw up a syllabus for girls and forward it to the senate for approval.
Farmers of the Turua district will have a merry Christmas if the quantities of wine and ale arriving by boat : and train are any indication.
Crickets were heard chirping at Ngatea last evening. This is much earlier than usual.
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