LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Putaruru Press, Volume IV, Issue 115, 7 January 1926, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A light frost during Saturday night did some damage to garden crops round about Putaruru. The number of telegrams forwarded and received at the Putaruru post office during Christmas week last year show a slight increase over those of the previous year, 1924. The fignres are as follows, 1924 being' given in parentheses: Forwarded, 300 (285); received, 285 (201). A story of mysteries that thrill and thrills that mystify will be screened at the Putaruru picture theatre next Saturday. The title is “ The Brass Bowl ” and the film is a Fox production.* /

Sig-n-posts for the camping ground at Putaruru are expected from Auckland this week, as well as additional posts for some of the roads. As some motorists have gone astray on the Te Awamutu-Arapuni road during the holidays, a sign-post is to be ere'eted at the junction in the road as Arapuni is approached.

The Matamata-trained Green Bonnet carried more than the hopes of Matamata and Mo-rrinsville district admirers in the Warea Stakes at the Taranaki Jockey Club’s second day last Monday but the best the mare could do was to get third. There was some recompense, however, through the win of Mr. Pat. Corbett’s Scat, which, ridden by the Te Aroha boy, T. Monkley, won the Flying Handicap of seven furlongs in 1m 28 l-ss. Scat started favourite. Scat looks like turning out a good one. The proceedings of the post office site meeting at Kaihere on Monday evening were very humorous (states the Hauraki Plains Gazette). At one stage, while several speakers were holding forth, one was heard to' allege that one of the men on Ngarua road had said that it would be worth £5 an acre to him to have someone put a match to the old post office building, as the department would then have a new building erected near his farm on the postal reserve. There were cries of “Name the man,” but a certain woman got up and' dared the speaker to cast aspersions on her husband, Few people heard this on account of the uproar, and there were many queries as to the cause of the new outburst. The old post office was burnt down under mysterious circumstances on the night of April 1 last.