Hauraki Plains Gazette With which is incorporated THE OHINEMURI GAZETTE. Motto: Public Service. MONDAY, WEDNESDAY, FRIDAY WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 19, 1931. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXXII, Issue 2764, 19 August 1931, Page 4

Hauraki Plains Gazette With which is incorporated THE OHINEMURI GAZETTE. Motto: Public Service. MONDAY, WEDNESDAY, FRIDAY WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 19, 1931. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Paeroa brewery was broken into on Monday of last week by two youths, • who gained admittance by filing through a link in a chain which held a-back door. From statements which they made to the PoLce on being apprehended, only 18 quart bottles of ale were stolen. The matter will be dealt with by the Juvenile Court.

With a view to encouraging prompt payment of rates the Piako County Council decided at its August meeting to offer a rebate of 5 per cent, on the general rate when all rates for the ensuing year are paid within a month after receipt of the demands.

Meat consumed by Paeroa people last month, according to the report from the Paeroa abattoir, included beef from 51 cows, 16 heifers and 8 steers: mutton from 152 sheep and three lambs; veal from two calves, and pork from ten pigs. Of the amount paid for this meat £47 7s 10:1 went to the Ohinemuri County Council for slaughtering fees.

No less than 150 applications were received for the position, of assistant clerk to the Piako County Council at a salary of £4 a week, letters coming from all over the Dominion. The applicants included several women, several returned soldiers, and a number with considerable experience in local body work. After about two hours’ consultation the Council appointed Mr S. Torepe, assistant clerk of the New Brighton Borough Council.

■A Taranaki farmer, famous for his vegetables, states that he avoids attack of the green fly on his cauliflowers and broccoli plants by planting the alternate rows with carrots. The same farmer adopts the Australian orchardist’s plan of always fertilising his apple trees with sheep manure as a preventive of codlin moth. Fowl manure, too, is used in the flower garden with wonderful results, especially as regards r.ntirr'hinums, which are simply gorgeous in hue.

“No, I would not claim to be exactly an expert farmer,’' said plaintiff in a caSe of, dispute over a farm which was before the Supreme Court at Wanganui. “How many years have you been farming?” asked counsel. The plaintiff replied that he had had 28 years’ experience of farming. ‘ Then how long do you think it would l.jke to become- an expert farmer?” continued the counsel. ‘ Oh, anything up to a hundred years,” replied plaintiff Some farmers needed more experience than others, he added.

New Zealand shipped the greatest quantity of pork and bacon to the London market for the first six months of 1931 than did any other country, except Ireland. Of the 21,186 tons handled in the London Central Markets 9,852 tons came from England and Scotland, 5,098 tons from Ireland, 1,296 tons from New Zealand, and 1,293 tons from Australia. Denmark only sent 783 tons of bacon.

The Te Aroha-Thames Valley Cooperative Dairy Company on Saturday last paid out to its shareholders for July cream supply at the late of Is id per pound butterfat. This company closeci its books for the first financial year, a period of eleven l months, at >'3oth June, and is just about to publish the balance sheet. In respect of monthly ’ advances this conipany was well to the fore during the last, season, the average being lOffd, exclusive of cartage. On the 15th July the company paid an interim bonus and will shortly make a final payment, bringing the season’s average for finest grade up to 12.378 d, inclusive of cream cartage. The turnover for the year was approximately £150,000. . 414 farmers supplied atsome time during the season and 93.3 per cent, of the cream graded finest. A number of new suppliers have already joined the company for the opening season, and a large increase in output is expected. The annual general meeting is to take place on Saturday, 29th August. The Paeroa Golf Club are holding a dance and card evening to-night in the Soldiers’ Club Rooms. Influenza Cough Specific.—A most marvellous remedy for the speedy relief and cure of influenza, nasal and. faucial, catarrh, feverish , colds with body pains and headache, cold in the head, rheumatism, etc. Prepared only by de Castro’s, Chemist, Paeroa?