The Matamata Record THURSDAY, JUNE 27, 1918 Brief Mention of all Minor Happenings in Matamata and Vicinity.

Matamata Record, Volume II, Issue 88, 27 June 1918, Page 2

The Matamata Record

THURSDAY, JUNE 27, 1918 Brief Mention of all Minor Happenings in Matamata and Vicinity.

m The Only Paper published " in the Matanmta County Published every Thursday Office Tower Road P.O. Box 3S ' 'Puoxe 82

A meeting of dairymen interested in the dried milk proposition will be held in the Town hall to-morrow, Friday, evening. At a meeting of representative citizens held in the Farmers hall on Tuesday evening it was decided to tender a social function to Mr and Mrs Free, prior to their departuro from Matamata. The date has yet to he arranged. Thirteen candidates were presented for confirmation to His Lordship, the Bishop of Auckland, at Matamata last Sunday. Three christenings were also carried out in the church the same day. Judgment for the plaintiff was given at the Matamata S.M. Court on Friday, in the undefended cases, E. T. Stewart (Putaruru) v. Kemara Hamilton (Hawkes Bay), £2; and Robert Casey (Waharoa) v. S. Johnston (Kiwitahi), £6 18s. The annual meeting of the Matamata Library will be held on Saturday afternoon. All lovers of good books should certainly attend and assist in running the library on sound lines, and so keep the institution at a high state of efficieacy. Intending subscribers are invited. A large meeting of dairymen was addressed by Mr W. Goodfellow, at Hinuera, on Tuesday evening. Three thousand six hundred cows were guaranteed in the room for a dried milk supply. On Wednesday Mr Goodfellow paid a visit to Omahine and Turanga-o-moana. At the Matamata Magistrate’s Court on Friday, Ivan Bp log, for failing to register as an alien, was fined. 10s, with costs 225. On a charge of being drunk and disorderly at Tirau on March 30th Hinganui, a native, of Okoroire, was fined £2 and mulcted in costs 225. “ Don’t you think it would have been better for the valuer to have gone over my land instead of asking me how much fencing I had,” said an objector at the Assessment Court, on Friday. “ I think he showed great confidence in you by taking your word,” retorted the president amidst laughter. It is stated that the Auckland Acclimatization Society has again put a premium on hawk’s heads, the price being Gd per head. If the statement is correet the youths of the Walton district should quickly make enough to put down a deposit on a farm. A meeting of all interested in the Red Cross campaign is convened for Tuesday afternoon next by the chairman of the Town Board. It is confidently hoped that town and country will be well represented, and that such action will result that Matamata will find the quota expected from it.

Only two objections were received to the new valuations from the Matamata town area, and both appellants failed to put in an appearance on Friday. The objections were therefore struck out. The of the county ratepayers who objected failed to appear and their objections were treated similarly.

A cabled message received last week stated that an English Freisian cow which yeilded 2,400 gallons of milk in one year had beon sold for 3,500 guineas. At Palmerston North last week a a Freisian cow which had given 2,410 gallons in the year realised only £SOO. This would seem to indicate that either the New Zealand dairyman has a poor idea of the value of a real good cow or that there is money to burn in England.

*’ The worst road I have ever been on” remarked a person who recently travelled the Kaimai road. For about fifteen miles, he says, the road beggars description. He considers the money recently spent has been wasted, and in some cases worse than wasted, for in some places the road has been left in an absolutely dangerous condition. Apparently our hopes of having this road put into fair order have again been dispelled and Tauranga still remains as isolated as the worst of backblock settlements. Tauranga Times.