LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Putaruru Press, Volume II, Issue 51, 9 October 1924, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

[ The rainfall at Putaruru last month ■ (September), as measured by the school gauge, totalled 5.34 in. ■ The supply received at the Tokoroa S:'f cheese factory to the end of September this season was as follows, the corresponding particulars for the previous season being given in paren•Jr theses for the purpose of compari--August: Milk received, 32,1301 b ■fcjterfat content, 1332.841 b -Hlknher: Milk, 211,1111 b [H 1 1 jhlLj |> f ; if, J \pj. ( <[-r % 1 ' p hf-ri' -1, 'ra||Pl!.'!! on i 1 li, , *7% f k 111 J T wHlPiwk. col'r . J ii The ■ h yTf 'l; lb^ n’' r I i l .!' 11 ! c ;'lj' tf |i ] 1 hI VV II Jh HRciuh h:s - arI ,rP ' ent ation B the B Putaruru The function B is to be on the same-scale as last B-! year and tickets may be obtained ■ from members bf the club.* Over 50 sections have now been r; sold in the Putaruru Residential Sites H Syndicate’s subdivision between the ! |Bt— office and the Oraka river. The latesF is Mr. H. A. Hr JScholz, of Putaruru, who has secured a particularly desirable section overlooking the river. It is underH| stood that Mr. Scholz intends to erect a residence on this property, j -while a number of the other purchasBj. : ers are also expected to commence llbuilding shortly.*

The new school at Mangatapu is to be officially opened next Saturday afternoon by Mr. E. C. Banks, of the Auckland Education Board. Whether or not the Putaruru school will be entitled to an additional teacher next year depends on the average attendance for the present quarter. For the first two quarters of the year it was 117 and for last quarter 12G.4. If it reaches 125 this quarter the average for the year will be 121, the figure necessary for the appointment of an additional teacher. The attention of contractors and farmers who desire to provide for winter feed is directed to an advertisement in our columns calling foi tenders for GO acres of Algerian oats now growing on the afforestation block. The crop has been cultivated and manured and is now looking extremely promising. Having been sown early it should be ready to cut ir. December and if chaffed out of the stook would be available for use or sale before the present extreme prices for chaff (£l2 to £l3 per ton) are affected to any great extent by the new season’s crop.*