LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXXII, Issue 2765, 21 August 1931, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Primary schools in the Auckland Education Board’s district commence the August term holidays this afternoon. It is the Kerepeehi Hotel is to be shifted from its present site in November and placed at the cross roads corner. A concert in aid of troop funds is to be held in the Ngatea Hall this Friday evening by the Girl Guides. A good evening of variety entertainment is promised and a dance will follow. Prices have been fixed at 2s. Is and 6d, and will cover both concert and [lance. As a means of wiping out the small debt on the Wharepoa Public Hall, a meeting of settlers held this week, decided that a social be held in the near future, and that later, on a Paady’s Market be held. Hikutaia Primary School B Grade basketball team beat the newly formed Wharepoa school team by six goals to nil in a match at Hikutaia this we,ek. Miss Bailey was referee. The Hikutaia team entertained its /visitors to afternoon tea.

While A. and P. Societies'throughout the country gave serious consideration to the question of abandoning their annual shows, and many associations did reach that decision, the Hauraki A. and P. Association gave no indication of abandoning its annual fixture at the annual meeting on Wednesday eveing. but fixed the date for Thursday, December 3.

The Koromatua Block, which adjoin.-, the Otway Settlement and lies at -the south east corner of Hauraki Plains, is now being prepared for Si ttlcment. Of th« 941 acres in the block a considerable portion hm been cleared and grassed by relief workers, v. ho aie also engaged under the control of the Lands Drainage Department in road and drain making.

The N.Z. Co-operative Dairy Company’s Paeroa factory, after undergoing its annual overhaul, commences the new season’s operations tc-day. Ngatea factory, where the Paeroa cream has ! been taken for some time past now, will thus be relieved of a rather heavy burden. Overhauling operations at Ngatea have almost been completed, though it was not found necessary to suspend manufacturing during such operations.

‘ Wrting in the latest issue vf the Port of London Autohority’s magazine, Mr A. G. Linney claims that “The Street of Tobacco,” running from Tidal Basin to Connaught Road station, 1 is the richest street in the world. Along it are 32 bonded warehouses,’ and in these (plus, certain warehouses at King George V dock and at West India dock) are stored more than 50,000 tons of tobacco. The value of this, with duty, is close on £60,000,000.

At a meeting of the executive committee of the Alley Memorial Park, Hikutaia, on Tuesday evening, Mr E. Elliott presided over a full attendance of members. It was decided that the attention of the Public Works Department be again drawn to the serious erosion of the Hikutaia stream near the entrance to the memorial gates, and to ask that a fence be erected to guard against the danger of people falling down the steep bank.

When Sir Thomas Wilford was at Avbnmouth Docks, Bristol, in June, a certain vessel was pointed out to him which has a .special interest to New Zealanders. It was a trim, white steamer of about 4,000 tons, called the ‘Changuinola,” and it was engaged in the banana trade between Central America and Bristol. '• This was one of the German ships which was handed over to the scheme, of reparations,' and its original name'was “Moewe ’—the German raider which was loose in the Pacific in the early days of the war. It is now one of the fleet of the Elder Dempster Line.

Motorists who drive ’ along 'the Mountain road between Inglewood and Sentry Hill to-day can have little conception of the difficulties the settlers of fifty years ago had to contend with in travelling • along it. The Inglewood correspondent of the “Taranaki Herald” in those days recorded that there was, at the time he wrote, a tuft of horse-hair, at which all the inhabitants who passed by had tugged lustily without being able to lift it from the ground. It was currently reported to be the tail of a grey horse which had foundered in a pot hole in the road and -gone down head first with an old gentleman from Wanganui. Surplus Flesh means faulty food assimilation; . Corrected by taking Youth-O-Form. — S. J. Hedge, Chemist.*