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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXXII, Issue 2722, 11 May 1931, Page 2

To-morrow the Arbitration Court will commence its sitting'at Wellington to hear the application for a general order reducing wages paid under awards and industrial agreements. The hearing of the application and the subsequent arguments, both for and against, are expected to take fully a week, and probably longer. It is anticipated that any reduction the Court decides to make will come, into force at the beginning of next month. A man was summoned from another town to appear at the Thames Court at a recent sitting, to answer a charge of ill treating a horse. As a man failed to appear on the grounds that the Police had made an order against him restricting his movements to another town and prohibiting him from going to Thames, and as the horse in question had since died, the case was struck out. There is apparently no limit to the number of people that can squeeze into one seat of a motor car. At the Thames Court recently a motorist jiomplained of a car being parked in the middle of the road without lights. When asked if there was anybody in the car, the complainant answered, “Yes, Your Worship, there were six.” “Did you speak to the driver ? ” was the next question. “There was no driver—they were all in the back seat.” In another column the Railway Department advertises the issue of Holiday Excursion tickets in connection with the Waikato Trotting Club’s Meeting at Claudelands on 16th May, also the train arrangements in connection therewith. Digestive Tonic. A purely vegetable tonic for the instant relief and cure of indigestion, heartburn, stomachic headache, and all other painful affections of the digestive organs arising from irregular diet, nervousness, sluggish liver, etc.—de Castro’s Pharmacy.* Middle-age Stoutness Removed by taking Youth-O-Form Capsules. 201 b reduction six weeks, 6/6.—S. J. Hedge, Chemist. * '■ Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure For Coughs and Colds, never fails.