THE Hauraki Plains Gazette With which is incorporated THE OHINEMURI GAZETTE. Motto Public Service. MONDAY, WEDNESDAY, & FRIDAY. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 23, 1926. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVII, Issue 4991, 23 June 1926, Page 2

THE Hauraki Plains Gazette With which is incorporated THE OHINEMURI GAZETTE. Motto Public Service. MONDAY, WEDNESDAY, & FRIDAY. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 23, 1926. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

To-day is tiie 32nd birthday of Edward Albert Christian George Andrew Patrick David, His Royal Highness the Prince off Wales.

The elderly Maori who was charged with a.n alleged serious offence at Omaliu was brought before tiie Court at Thames on Monday, and was remanded to appear at Paeroa on Monday next.

At Monday night’s meeting of the committee of the Paeroa Rugby Union a resolution df sympathy with tiie widow and sons of the late Mr C. H. Ladner was carried in silence. Mr J. M. Crosby intimated that in tiie year 1885 the late Mr Ladner had been one. of the prime movers in forming a Goldfields football team, and had played for some years, afterwards becoming an efficient referee.

A school of eight, porpoises was seen in the Waihou River near Turua last week. As a, rule, porpoises come.' into tire river when rough weather is expected.

The approaches for the Pipiroa ferry are completed a.nd ready for use, raid the construction of the pontoon has been completed several weeks, but until the next, spring tide it cannot be launched. The hauling gear will be fitted on the pontoon by then, though this could have been done some time ago if necessary. Tne ferry will be in operation a day or two after the pontoon is launched.

The road from Waitakaruru to Pokeno is in fairly good order, witli tile exception of about four chains in a cutting behind the quarry, where the mud is very deep. The rest of the unmetalled portion does not become, bad. Some, deep ruts are forming beyond Maramarua.

The Piako County Council has been informed by the Public Works Department that the Mangaiti bridge across the Waihou River is in a very bad condition and is no.w unsafe for heavy traffic. The cost of a new bridge would be £9oo'o, allocated as l follows : Waihou and Ohinemuri Improvement Scheme, £2400; Ohinemuri County Council, £2200 ; Piako County Council, £2200.

A Victorian lady, a Mrs Moore, of Melbourne, died recently in England, leaving a personal estate valued a.t £78,187. After providing for various' bequests and legacies, totalling about £BOOO she left the residue, of her estate to Dr. Crossley, formerly Bishop of Auckland. As Bishop Crossley died in the lady’s lifetime, a codicil was. added to the. will directing that his widow should take his share in the estate.

How many rooms must there be i n an hotel ? At the last meeting of the Buller Licensing Committee the question arosq as to whether, in the six rooms that must be provided in hotel premises for use by the general public, to comply with the Act, the barroom should count. Mr J. J. Molony submitted that it did, and, quoting from the Act the phrase "exclusive of the billiard room,” stated that this indicated the intention of the Legislature. The police held that as the bar was closed from 6 p.m. until 9 a.m. the, bar could not be counted. The chairman remarked that this room was not closed to boarders, but cited a Supreme Court judgment in which it Had been held that the drinking room was not included in the six rooms.

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