LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Putaruru Press, Volume II, Issue 11, 28 December 1923, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The formation of the Tokoroa Rabbit Board was gazetted last week. The territory taken jn comprises approximately 120,000 acres and is the largest tract of country controlled by one board in the province. The meeting of the Putaruru-Tanpo Railway Board this month dealt with the present position in regard to the negotiations between the board and the Taupe Tdtara* Timber Co. It Is understood that the next meeting of the board will probably be held early J ~ hn-fajiuary, after which the conference the Government, the board and the company will take place in Auckland. The expectation that the Mangai-ti deviation would be open by Christmas was not fulfilled. By Saturday, December 15, it was apparent that with •i great deal of rock work yet- to be done two to three weeks’ work would .-till be necessary to give a vehicular track along the new route. This precluded all hope of having the deviation open by Christmas and consequently the gang stopped work on the 15th for the holidays. Miss J. I.ochhead, who has beer, a resident of Putaruru for approximately two years past,' returned to Hawke's Bay last Friday. During her >ojcrrcn here Miss Loch head took ail active part in local affairs coming within her scope, and. in particular was secretary to the ladies’ branch of I he golf club. Prior to her departure she was entertained by several of her young lady friends here and presented by them with a dainty purse as a i-okeh of their regard for her. Some idea of the variation in the producing capacity of different cows - = priven in the returns prepared by the New Zealand Co-op. Herd-testing Association, which is now testing some 30,000 cows- throughout the Waikato. One cow, u five-year-old bh or thorn. owned by a Eureka farmer, gave 111.181 b of fat for the 30 days of November, and 135.00! h of butter-fat for 47 days up to December -y Another cow, a three-year-old Holstein., owned bv a Tirau settler, gave only 5.41 bof Fat for the 30 days of November and 15.21 b of fat for 04 days up to December 2. / 4 b-g mob of.store sheep, some 2000 in number, reached Cambridge at the end of last week, after being thriven trom Gisborne. The trip occupied 20 days. The sheep arrived in goon condition, there being no casualties on the long journev. The sheep were auctioned by Messrs. Dalget.y and Co.. Ltd., ai Hie Cambridge saleyards. They were all 2 and 4tooth wethers and ewes, mostly Romney cross. The wethers realised from 0d to 27s 3d, and the ewes brought ar. average of about 24s 3d. The prices were considered satisfactory. . The latest addition to the subscribers’ list, Putaruru exchange, is Telfer ! and Smith, ’phone No. 54.*