LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Putaruru Press, Volume II, Issue 55, 13 November 1924, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

On the Hauraki Plains they have a way of their own of doing things. Meetings at Netherton (states the Gazette) usually commence and end very late. The annual meeting of the sports club was called for 7.30 p.m. It commenced at 8.30 p.m. and i closed at 12.30 a.m. \ 14 if understood that mail contracts for the Putaruru district have recently been let as follows:—Putaru-ru-Mokai. thrice weeklv, Taupo Totara Timber Co., Ltd.; Putaruru-Ara-puni, daily, E. M. Finlayson, Ltd.; Putaruru-Waotu, thrice weekly, Mr Johnson; Bart’s Siding-Te Whetu yfdaily, Mr. P. Forbes. JirAnother aspect of the wandering stock problem on the Hauraki Plains cgmes from Turua, where a resident -.of the township discovered one momKentiy that his household cow milk. During the night some hat fed been running on the IT gone through the fence and

Mr. Victor Herbert, who has a member of the traffic staff at ihe Putaruru railway station for some time past, left on Friday for Otahuhu on transfer. On Thursday evening he was entertained by the members of the local station staff, on behalf of whom Mr. W. Donaldson handed him a Loewe pipe as a token of their regard and best wishes for his future.

We are frequently told that the Post and Telegraph Department is now being run on commercial lines: if anyone doubts the truth of the assertion let him have his name put on the telephone directory in place of that of another person when a change of residence lakes place. The Department's charge for this service is five shillings; for a similar service, or the mere changing of a line of type in a catalogue, the average printer would think himself fortunate if he got fivepence.

An elderly man named William Charles Campbell, employed taking the mails from the Waharoa railway station to the post office, was examined last Thursday by Constable Heeps, of Matamata, on a charge of pilfering from the Waharoa railway sheds. In the whare where the man lived the constable found three of the missing articles: A spade, a new suit case, and a bag of meal. The man is fairly old, being just on 60. He will be brought before the magistrate at Matamata, when application will be made by the police to have him sent to a home. A unique pastoral event has taken place this season at Te Poi. Mr. F. C. Whytcross had five ynung ewes and a yearling ram, all Border Leicester crossbreds. The ewes have ali had twin lambs, which, 'all being and. healthy, mean a 200 per. cent, increase iri the flock' Strange! c "~rv of the nrst pair of lambs, the ram became exceedingly wild, attacking a member of the owner’s household in her endeavours to save the young lambs from their sire’s fierceness. The frenzied animal received treatment but became so ferocious after the birth of the second pair of youngsters that he had to be destroyed. An amusing reference to the grading of the August output of butter was made at a meeting of suppliers of the N.Z.C.D.C., Ltd., at Matamata on Tuesday. It was stated that, with the exception of a trifle at Waharoa and Ngaruawahia, there had been no superfine butter for August, that is, on the Government graders’ reports for the Auckland province. The speaker opined that, like the factory managers, the Government graders had stiffened the standard up for the start of the season. At anyrate, it was significant that after the conference of factory managers was arranged to discuss the August grading, the grade went up so satisfactorily that the matter was not given great attention by the time the conference date came round. The commercial abbreviations “ C.1.F.” and “ F. 0.8.” are not the kind of stuff that sonnets are made of, though doubtless they sometimes conjure up dreams of wealth. Something of the latter kind of feeling was what a Waiau Pa supplier to the N.Z.C.D.C., Ltd., must have had when he arrived at his interpretation of “ C.1.F.” Mr. A. J. Sinclair said he had been asked to explain to the meeting at Waiau Pa what the difference was between “ C.1.F.” and *** F. 0.8.” He told the meeting that “ F. 0.8.” meant free on board at main ports, New Zealand, and thereafter no further expense was incurred by the company exporting; “ C.1.F.” meant “ charges, insurance, freight,” from New Zealand to London, or the port of delivery. One supplier was greatly astonished, and owned up that he had always thought 4t C.1.F.” meant “ cash within a fortnight!”

The usual monthly meeting of the Putaruru Hall Committee was held in the hall on Monday evening. Four members, Messrs. A. R. Vosper (in the chair), C. H. Woodgate, G. E. Martin and J. B. Rolfe (secretary), were present. Owing to the poor attendance it was resolved that the notice of motion to hold an annual effort in aid of the hall funds be deferred to a special meeting of the committee, to be held in a fortnight’s time, meanwhile it to be ascertained from the Deed of Trust when the annual meeting of the public to elect a hall committee for the ensuing year was due. A request for some concession in the price for the hire of the hall for the popular concert in aid of the Salvation Army Boys’ Christmas Fund was declined, it being pointed out that any such concession would create a serious precedent, and couid not be entertained, while there still remained a debt on the hall. The Putaruru Rugby Union’s annual presentation social in the Town Hall to-morrow evening promises to be a popular function, the arrangements being good and a considerable number of residents particularly footballers —from all parts of the district having intimated their intention of being present.* A meeting will be held in Mr. r \. F. Snell’s hardware store to-morrow (Friday) evening, at 7.30 o’clock, to discuss the advisability of forming a chess club in Putaruru. All interested are invited to attend.* Everyone is helping with the Glee Club’s effort, for the Salvation Army boys’ Christmas gift fund, on Friday, the 21st inst., and the school children throughout the district are selling tickets. The Brass Band will play for half an hour prior to the concert itself, which will ccmmence at 8 o’clock sharp. A fine request programme will be given. Admission Is. The entertainment will be continued to midnight (supper being supplied by the Glee Club and dance music by the Railway Orchestra) at an additional Cost of Is to all who wish to stay, the latter proceeds going to the local school library fund.*

The prevalence of influenza in the district has caused more than ordinary inconvenience on the farms. At one Morr'nsville homestead the whole of the family is in bed and neighbours are doing the milking.

Guy Fawks’s night, November 5, was somewhat spoilt for the young folk of Putaruru by light rain. However, one or two bonfire celebrations took place, but they were curtailed on account of the weather, and there was an aftermath on succeeding evenings.

“ The policy that is often adopted is to allow these, things to get into such a state that the architect comes round and authorises the work; the Education Board then pays for it,” was an explanation of school committee methods advanced at Saturday evening’s meeting of the Morrinsville District High School Committee, when an account for an expensive item of repair work was being discussed.

Trust a State Department for finding out all the fine points of the game when it comes to advancing reasons for keeping up charges. Mr. A. J. Sinclair, general manager of the N.Z.C.D.C., Ltd., speaking at Matamata on Tuesday, said that the railwav charges were still 120 per cent above 1914 rates on dairy produce. The Department advanced the highly ingenious reason for failure to come down to pre-war rates, that those rates were too low at any time.