THE PUTARURU PRESS, THURSDAY, JULY 81, 1924. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Putaruru Press, Volume II, Issue 41, 31 July 1924, Page 2

THE PUTARURU PRESS,

THURSDAY, JULY 81, 1924. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Office ... Main Street ’Phone 28 - - P.O. Box 44 (Lewis, Portas and Dallimore’s Build* £9-)

The Rotorua County Council is submitting loan proposals to its ratepayers for £40,000 for road improvements.

During the recent killing season the Waingawa works put through 213,000 sheep and 7000 cattle, as against 171,000 sheep and 4000 cattle for the preceding season.

At the Putaruru golf links last week-end an eclectic competition, comprising two rounds of 18 holes each, was started. It is to he completed next week-end.

Messrs. F. H. Claxton (chairman), F. ai. Strange (deputy chairman) and R. Sprague (manager), of the Thames Valley Electric Power Board, visited Rotorua last week to inspect the trees growing on the State forest with the view to obtaining a supply for future requirements.

It is understood that the Railway Department has now agreed to provide a truck at the Putaruru railway station for cream for the Rotorua Co-op. Dairy Co.’s factory at Ngongotaha. The truck will be shunted on to the morning train from Putaruru to Rotorua.

The request for the provision of a morgue at Putaruru was the subject of a reply received at the last meeting of the Chamber of Commerce from Sir Maui Pom are, Minister for Health. He stated that when the Arapuni ' works were started, such provision might be found necessary and would be made.

The improved state of the roads as the result of the fine weather of the past two weeks resulted in a resumption of the Putaruru-Taupo motor service last Monday, the service having been suspended for a short period owing to the bad state of the roads.

A horse died under peculiar circumstances at Walton the other day. The animal belonged to Mr. Kenneth McCardle, and discovering a bag of washing soda on the side of the road it became curious as to what the contents tasted like and started to lick the same. It did not prove good horse feed, however, and shortly after the horse was found dead near the

Apropos of the question of electric lighting for the Putaruru railway station, the assistant general-man-ager of railways, Mr. Sterling, has assured Mr. F. F. Hockly, M.P. for the district, that the Putaruru station is well forward on the list of those at which electric light is to be installed in rotation, according to urgency.

Messrs. H. M. Martin (Ngongotaha), J. Price (Matamata) and A. C. Sutherland (Whakatane), the Eastern Committee conducting the revaluation of soldiers’ sections, have practically completed all the field work in connection therewith. The revaluation on the east side of Matata, with the exception of the Matuku block, has been completed, and the field -work at Rotorua, Reparoa settlement, Taupo, and Matamata as far as Cambridge, is also finished. There remains now only the field work from Matata to Katikati and the northern side of the main range to be completed.

Mr. R. T. Smith wishes to announce that the arrangements for the establishment of his butchery business at Putaruru are well forward, and he expects to start delivering meat early next month, August.*