LOCAL & GENERAL

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume 47, Issue 2665, 3 September 1937, Page 4

LOCAL & GENERAL

Golf Matches. As no outside matches will be played by the Paeroa Golf Club during the week-end, members are requested to complete their club handicap and championship games in that period. Rugby Trophies. The two trophies donated by Mr Hugh Poland to the best back and best forward respectively in the Paeroa senior rugby competition are on view in a shop window in Belmont road. They are a crystal water bottle and a crystal water jug, and should make useful ornaments to any home. A Residence Tax. “All persons over 15 years of age who stay more than two months in Tahiti must pay a residence tax of 500 francs.” This information was gleaned by those who recently visited the island during the pleasure cruise of the South Sea Islands in the Maunganui.

Housing Survey. An immense amount of exacting detail is required by the Government in connection with the housing survey of the Paeroa borough. The actual survey has been completed for some time, but the tabulating of the information received and the assembling of the data in statistical form is a task that has occupied the town clerk, Mr R. S. Nicol, for many weeks, although the end is in sight. The Paeroa Domain. Neat lawns and paths, trees bursting into bud, and a long stretch of greensward as a background, make the Paeroa Domain a most attractive spot for the gaze of the passer-by. With spring coming the domain is beginning to look a most inviting spot for walks or quiet meditation.

Racing at Paeroa. With only one month to go before the Taumarunui Racing Club’s annual fixture is due, interest in spring racing will quicken among Paeroa sportsmen. The meeting, which will be held on the Ohinemuri Jockey Club’s racecourse at Paeroa, has been set down for October 2 and 4. The ladies of the town will very shortly be turning their attention to fashionable frocks, eschewing racing form and leaving that to the men.

Partial Derating. The New Zealand Counties’ Association conference held last week at Wellington on the recommendation of its legislation committee, adopted the following remit: “That this conference re-affirms its application to the Government for the granting of a £1 for £1 subsidy on expenditure on roads other than main highways in lieu of the present Government subsidy on general rates.”

Player and Spectator Clash. A report from a referee about a match in which, it was stated, a player had been ordered off for trying

to strike a spectator aroused discussion at a meeting at Rangiora of the North Canterbury Rugby Sub-Union. It was reported at the meeting that the spectator had become involved in play near the line, and that he had struck the player in the face. Members of the sub-union were of the opinion that the spectator should have been far enough back from the line not to have become involved. It was recommended that where possible playing fields be roped off so that onlookers could not encroach on them. “Waste of Time.” The opinion that power board conferences were a waste of time and only a picnic for most of the delegates was expressed by Mr J. Elder at the last monthly meeting of the Dannevirke Power Board when the matter of instructing the board’s delegate how to vote on the question of a Dominion award for supply authorities was being considered. The chairman (Mr M. O. Grainger) said he believed that some good resulted from these conferences in spite of the fact that a lot of nonsense was sometimes talked. Mr H. P. Horne said he thought the conferences were held too frequently, and that once every three or five years would be preferable. Mr Elder: “The remits carried are not worth a tin of fish. Anyway, they are pigeon-holed, and that is the end of them.” The meeting instructed its

delegate to support a Dominion award.