LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Putaruru Press, Volume IV, Issue 118, 28 January 1926, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Miss E. M. Smith has been ap pointed assistant teacher at the Puta ruru school.

Thirty car loads of teachers now in conference at Cambridge visited Horahora and Arapuni last Tuesday.

A very light frost occurred in Putaruru on Monday night but practically no damage was done to growingcrops.

Mr. F. W. A. Handman, agent for Messrs. Armstrong, Whitworth and Co. at Arapuni, is at present in Tauranga on a fortnight’s sick leave. Mr. J. E. Rumble, of the Wellington office, is in charge at Arapuni during Mr. Handman’s absence.

Cr. Darby asks us to point out that the £l7O, which was the difference between the lowest and next highest tender for contracts on the Waotu main road, is a charge on county and not on riding- funds.

Atmospheric conditions on Monday night resulted in blasting operations at Arapuni being felt in Putaruru as if taking place within a mile or so. “ Reminded me of old times,” said one ex-Digger. “It was just like a lot of ‘ dumps ’ going up.”

Rev. Brabyn, of Kihilcihi, who has recently been appointed by the Presbyterian Church to take charge of the Putaruru and other_ districts round about, made a flying- visit to this area this week. So far Mr. Brabyn has not decided on his headquarters.

A resident in the Thames Valley Power Board’s district recently received a non-consumer’s notice, one of those circulars which are intimating to the consumers that they have hail 10 per cent, tacked on to their levy, and if they do not pay there will be trouble. He met an official of the board and asked him what it meant. The official explained that it was a rate being- paid by nonconsumers of current. “ Well, that’s red hot. There I have been trying for three years to get the board to lei me have the current and they won’t give it me, and now they want to make out it’s my fault. They’re the limit.”

The possibility of infection from books, or rather “ danger,” was the subject of a lectui-e to the Dominion Libraries’ Conference at Dunedin by Dr. Burns. He did not consider the danger serious. He remarked that infection was everywhere in the air, the tramcars and streets, and on the covers of books, but it was purely a matter of susceptibility to attack. Anyone looking- round the room and seeing- the healthy-looking representatives to the conference would realise that they at least had not suffered in any way through handling books. 1-L suggested, however, that a certain course of preventive measures might be adopted to do away with any possible causes of infection, although, as he had stated, there was no greater risk in handling books than from any other cause in the ordinary walks of life.

Putaruru orchestra ensures delightful dancing on Anniversary Night, novelty dance. 3 ’ The ever-popular Tom Mix, with Tony the wonder horse, play the leading- roles in a sensational film to be screened at the Putaruru picture theatre next Saturday. A horse race is a big feature of the story. *