LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Putaruru Press, Volume II, Issue 21, 6 March 1924, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

J' ; Mfcotorua A. and P. Association 1 | exhibiting a Rotorua next Waikato Winter lljireless telephone plant at 1! -j « Hester Ray Wheeler BKieard other New /.(-aland Auckland, Gisborne, ■etc* So far ffc° plant is equipped With a single set of telephones, which . permits of only one person at a time ‘ enhng in,” but a loud speaker is ■pcing obtained to make it audible to present at once. The district also jM|* another wireless enthusiast in Cecil Bathe, of Puketurua, SBB| Ji-ectinif a plant at his fatlvi; -

Advice was received in Putaruru on Saturday by telegram that the Methodist conference, then sitting in Christchurch, had approved the constitution. of the Putaruru district as a separate circuit. A party of Matnmata anglers had , quite good sport at Ngongotaha this week, obtaining in one day over 60 good size fish. The party consisted of Messrs. R. McCabe, W. W. Livingstone, S. H. Wilson and a visitingfriend. The new post office at Lichfield is completed and was opened by the postmistress, Miss Kells, for business on Monday afternoon. The building is opposite the old stone bank at Lichfield, being beside the main road and close to the T.T.T. railway. It is nicely sheltered by pine trees and is about a quarter of a mile from the school, where the post office was previously located. At the meeting of the Thames Valley Electric Power Board on Tuesday the chairman, Mr. F. R. Claxton, remarked that I hey were obtaining particulars of the charges of other power boards so that comparisons could be made. Comparing the charges of one other board which claimed to have the cheapest rates in the Dominion, Mr. Claxton said that the Thames Valley charges were below these. The following is an extract from a letter which was received at Tuesday’s meeting of the Thames Valley Electric Power Board from a Matatoki settler:—“ Regarding the increased charges T note what you say regarding the board’s decision and quite realise that if the majority of the consumers are prepared to be fleeced it is net for an insignificant lamb like me to bleat —and wool is a good price-now.” At a meeting- of the committee of the Morrinsville Racing Club last week it was decided to write to the Minister of Internal Affairs asking that as the Matamata and Franklin clubs had been granted totalisator permits would it not be possible to assist the Morrinsville club to reduce its liability by holding a totalisator meeting in some other centre, the proceeds to go to the Morrinsville club. In support of this request a deputation waited on the Prime Minister at the Te Aroha races on Saturday. The prompt manner in which Mr. N. G. McLeod, engineer to the Thames Valley Electric Power Board, dealt with the break in the cable across the Piako river at Ngatea recently was a subject of congratulatory comment at Tuesday’s meeting of the beard. It was stated that on the day of the break Mr. McLeod arrived in Te Aroha at 6 p.m., went straight to the scene of the break, and working as one of the men stayed on the spot until the repair work was completed at 8 o’clock the next evening. It was decided that a motion of congratulation for Mr. McLeod’s prompt work be recorded in the minutes. A considerable number of the prizes in the live stock section at the Rotorua A. and P. Show, held on Wednesday last, came to Putaruru. Mrs. L. E. Allen won the following in the pedigree Friesian section: Bull, two years or over, 1; yearling bull, 1; bull calf, 2; yearling heifer, 2; heifer calf, 1; group, bull and heifers, 1; cow, 1; two-year-old heifer, 1. Mrs. Allen was also awarded the first prize in the classes for grade Fresian cow, grade Friesian two-year-old heifer, best dairy cow (any breed) on the ground, best bull (any breed) three years and over, and best leading cow. This makes the very creditable total [ of eleven first prizes, including one cup, and two second prizes to this Putaruru exhibitor. In the pedigree: Jersey classes, Mr. R. J. Wilson, of Putaruru, was awarded first prize for bull calf, second prize for two-year-old heifer, and second prize for heifer calf, while in the pig classes he secured first prize for Berkshire boar and first prize for Berkshire sow. A general meeting of members and others interested was held by the Putaruru Bowling, Croquet and Tennis Club in the supper-room of the Town Hall on Friday evening to make arrangements for the annual garden fete this month in aid of the club funds. There was an attendance of about 15 ladies and gentlemen, over whom the club chairman, Mr. G. P. Portas, presided. Suggested arrangements for the fete were submitted by the ladies’ committee, and these were augmented and adopted, making- a comprehensive and attractive programme. A suggestion that during the winter months the club should conduct an art union with a view to raising, say, £l5O, to lay down a bowl ing green and a croquet lawn, was discussed at length and approved, a committee comprising Messrs. Portas, F. Phillips, T. F. Snell and G. E. Martin being appointed to further this matter. Organisation is in full swing- for the garden fete to be held on March 22. * The school teachers are cooperating with the committee, and the children right throughout the district are looking forward to a great day.* The Central boardinghouse at Putaruru has been taken over by Miss R. Strugnell, whose aim it is to provide comfortable accommodation, not only for the travelling public, but for those who wish to take advantage of the fishing and other sports available in the district, or to spend a health holiday in this tonic climate. The tariff is 9s per day or £2 5s weekly, with special rates for permanents.* Are you afflicted with rheumatism, neuritis, lumbago, sciatica or other muscular and nerve pains? Then read what Mr. J.L., of Paeroa, says: “ Will you please send me three more boxes of your ‘Uricalls’? The last lot you sent have done a world of good. I am now able to work, and the pain has nearly all gone. The next lot should about fix me.” “ Uricalls ” relieve pain so quickly, yet contains no injurious drugs. From all chemists and stores, or direct from A. M. Loasbv, the only prescribing chemist, 26, His Majcstv’s Arcade, Auckland.