LOCAL & GENERAL

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume 47, Issue 2664, 1 September 1937, Page 4

LOCAL & GENERAL

The Peace Cup. ■ ocroa had a strong team, said Mr W. B. Sutherland in replying to a presentation made him by the rugby union on Monday evening, and it was unlucky in not winning the Peace Cup. He hoped that if the team did not win the trophy next year it would do so in the following year. Hundred Per Cent. Vote. The chairman of the committee of the Ohinemuri Jockey Club, Mr P. E. Brenan, was given a remarkable vote of confidence by members of the club. With three other committeemen Mr Brenan retired by rotation this year and was returned after polling 81 votes. The total number of votes cast was 81. A Case of “Pay Up.” “If you’re not a bankrupt there is no law that can make you keep books,” remarked Mr A. Constantine (Ngatea) at the farmers’ union conference at Paeroa yesterday when the assessment of incomes for unemployment taxation was under consideration. Members had given instances of high arbitrary assessments. “No, but they can make you bankrupt,” stated a delegate amid laughter. i Thames Valley Rugby. j The Thames Valley Rugby Union i was a weak minor union, said the secretary, Mr W. B. Sutherland, at a ' social gathering of the Paeroa union j to farewell him on Monday evening, ! but it should develop into one of the : strongest minor unions. It had a strong area with Paeroa, Waihi and Te Aroha towns and a strong country district in the Hauraki Plains. Taxation and Farming. The union’s “bright little star” was to get all taxation direct and to do away with all indirect taxation, stated Mr A. E. Robinson, provincial secretary of the farmers’ union, at the quarterly sub-provincial conference held at Paeroa yesterday. The farmers kept asking for relief for various little things but forgot the main objective. A resolution was carried asking for exemption for farmers from unemployment taxation as farmers could not obtain labour. Adventure Cruise. Comment on the great opportunity for adventure opening for Mr W. B. Sutherland, who is leaving on a cruise with the Cap Pilar, was made by Mr D. G. McMillan at a Paeroa Rugby Union function to Mr Sutherland on Monday evening. “It is what most of us would like to do if we had the opportunity,” remarked Mr McMillan. “He will have to take the rough with the smooth... .That is the stuff that makes the British Empire.” Farmers’ Week. The Farmers’ Week organised by the Northern Thames sub-province of the union and held in May was reported on to the quarterly conference at Paeroa yesterday. The president, Mr A. H. Blackmore (Waihi) submitted an audited statement of accounts showing a debit balance of £l5. There was every chance of that being made into a credit as new members, on which 5s each was allowed by the provincial executive, were still being enrolled. The campaign had resulted in an increase of 100 members so far, with many more being reported.