The Matamata Record Published every Thursday THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1919 Brief Mention of all Minor Happenings in Matamata and Vicinity.

Matamata Record, Volume III, Issue 148, 4 September 1919, Page 2

The Matamata Record Published every Thursday

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1919 Brief Mention of all Minor Happenings in Matamata and Vicinity.

Offico Tower Road P.O. Box 38 Those 82

The Only Paper published in the Matumata County

Several farms and the hotel and land at Okoroire are reported to have changed hands this week. The monthly meeting of the Matamata Farmers' Union will be held in the Farmers' hall tomorrow (Friday) night. * The meeting of returned soldiers to have been held on Monday evening was postponed on account of certain papers not being to hand from Wellington. According to statements made at the Hydro-electric conference af Hamilton on Friday there is every possibility of Matamata becoming an important distributing station when the scheme is under way.

A visitor to the Cambridge stock sale on Monday states dairy stock, much of it inferior, was bringing higher prices than are ruling in Matamata, yet the grass is not coming away so well in that district. We regret to record that Mr G. G. Bell, of Matamata, was sent to the Waikato hospital on Monday. Mr Bell is suffering from an abcess on the neck, which is in very, close proximity to the spina. „J T-hs s&TiofflHunction in connection with the attempt to raise funds for the purchase of a piano for the Matamata school will be held on Friday of next week. "This will take the place of the ghost social previously advertised. A boy named Barnes sustained a broken arm and bad bruises at Hinuera a few days ago through falling from a bolting horse. The sufferer was transferred to the Hamilton hospital, and the latest report is that he is progressing favourably. Mr F. Quin, chairman of the Te Awamutu-Putaruru railway committee, has left Te Awamutu for Wellington where he will present the petition for the construction of the railway district to the Minister of Public Works. Among the purchasers of pedigree stock at the Monavale sale recently was Mr P. Quinlan, of Matamata, who gave £99 15s for Monavale Nancibel Hengerveld, £9814s for Monavale Canary, £64 Is for Monavale Fresia Regina and £66 3s for Pontiac Inka De Kol Gretque. Mr Quinlan also purchased four other pedigree Holstein cows. Mr J- H. Wilson, also 'of Matamata, secured the cow Monavale Claudia Paxton at £9O 6s. Mr Alfred Oldham, whose advertisement as candidate for the Rotorua electorate appears in this issue, is a settler in Rotorua. Beginning life in the flax trade, he by his own energy became in time a schoolmaster, accountant, and company manager. He is now a successful farmer. Mr Oldham considers that the affairs of the country call for the application of those qualities by which he had achieved success in his own career.