LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Thames Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 17928, 2 July 1930, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Stop Press news appears on I»ge 8.

Approval of the. Hauraki Plains road sealing scheme was received by the County yesterday. This covers all tho main highways at present in macadam on the Plains. The work will lie spread over a period of year-, according to finance. A subsidy ol £2 for £1 is allowed. The total distance is 46 miles and includes those highways from Haley’s Corner to the Hauraki Bridsre, from Dulget.v’s Corner to the Puke Bridge and the unsealed portion of the Orongo Peka Peka Koaa. i

Messrs. Coakley and'Co., general merchants, in a *new ‘ advertisement to day quote special prices for cowcovers, horse covers, plough coiiars, and chains. A special, discount of 5 per cent, is allowed during July.

The Manianoto Land Court, under Judge McCormick, is in session at the Thames Courthouse.

An enormous sheep was slaughtered at Waitakaruru last week, its weight, when dressed, being 1901 b. Mr. \V. Stretton lias had the animal, a Lei-cester-Romney ewe, running with his dairy cows tor the past four years. It ' was over 20 inches wide across the back.

Owing to the -exceptionally heavy traffic recently over the main road at Waitakaruru, some 21 chains of the road have cracked and slipped into the drain at the side. It is estimated that to sheathl-pile this drain for the distance w r ill take £4OO and the Main Highways Board and the County Council have to face this expenditure.

Acting under instructions from the Public Trustee, Mr. L. A. Williams sold at his auction mart, Rosemont Road, on Thursday afternoon, a farm of rather over 86 acres in the estate of the late Mr. Daniel Watson, of Whangamata. There were several bids and the property finally w-ent to Messrs. Bond and Bond, of Auckland, at £520, which is rather over £6 per acre.

The first of .a series of w r eekly 500 tournaments was held last evening in Costello and McMahon’s dining rooms. The proceeds from these tournaments will go tow-ardjj defraying the 'expenses of the College Old Girls Hockey Club in sending a team to Auckland to compete for the Provincial Cup l —a much prized trophy. Last evening’s prize winners were:—Ladies’ prize, Mrs. Pollock; gent’s prize, ■ fr. McMahon; ladies’ booby prize, -Mrs. Thomas; gent’s booby prize, Mr, Pratt.

For the six months ended June 30 there were 22 less births registered in Thames than for the preceding six months of 1929. For the month ol June there is a drop from 18 to 16.

There were six deaths in Thames during the past month as against nine for June, 1929. . For the sixmonthly period the figures are: 1929, 38, and 1930, 48. an increase of 10.

Heavy fogs have been the order of the weather here for the past few days, and the temperature has been raw.

There has been a big increase m the number of weddings performed in Thames this year, 44 having taken place in the past six months, compared with only 29 in 1929. During last June seven were celebrated, but only three took place in June, 1929.

There was moi'e than one humorous aspect of the commercial travellers’ drive in Auckland on Saturday, related by one who had participated in it to a Thames resident yesterday. One of the heads of the commercial world had, as a surprise, gent the office, boy home with a fur-trimmed coat as a present for his wife. Finding the lady of the house out the lad placed the parcel on the verandah, but when, hubby arrived home he got no thanks for his generosity. It later dawned upon him that the übiquitous traveller whose job it was to cover that particular street had remarked to him that someone had given a beautiful fur-trimmed coat, practically new, and worth at least £lO to the cause. 'lt is understood that for the only time in his life he became stricken dumb!