LOCAL AND GENERAL

Putaruru Press, Volume IV, Issue 127, 8 April 1926, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Practically a full team is already available for the proposed Putaruru soccer club, and if Arapuni can field two teams, as is suggested, there is every possibility of organised soccer being played in this district this coming- season. A little boy named Aynsley Barrett, who quite recently was living in Putaruru, fell into a hot pool at Rotorua at Easter time and severely scalded one of his legs. The little patient is now in hospital and progressing very satisfactorily. Mr. J. M. Dowd, of Putaruru, advises that if a few- sheep are kept on ragwort they will eat the weed bare, and also any roots showing. Daisies may also be treated in the same way. In dealing with rushes, Mr. Dowd advises that if these are cut twice in or.e season, with either the scythe or mower, they can be killed. A story of a mean theft comes from Tatuanui. When the accident occurred to Mr. Alan Dyke, whose motor cycle toil idee! v ith a passing motor car, the machine was left standing on the roadside for nearly two days be-fi-.i-c it was possible to remove it. In j the meantime some person had made a visit to it and cleared the tool boxes of everything useful. Two brick shops, each with a floor space of approximately 800 square feet, are being erected in Princes street, Putaruru, by Mr. C. Edwards. The frontage to each is approximately I.Bft, and when the buildings are finished they will form a decided improvement to a business area of the town. It is expected that the shops will be opened in a month’s time, tenants having already been secured. “ The P. and T. Department is not as obliging as it used to be; they’re slipping- back,” said a member of a certain body which held its annual meeting in Morrinsville recently. Continuing-, he said at one time it was possible to hold a three-cornered conversation on .the telephone on a Sunday morning without ringing- central, “ but those days were gone,” he was sorry to say. He did not mention what the others on the party line thought of the matter. Speaking in connection with the proposed new dairy factory at Morrinsville, Mr. C. Parlane (assistantmanager of the N.Z.C.D.C., Ltd), stated to a meeting of Morrinsville committeemen last week that the factory would be built of concrete on the same lines as those at Waharoa and I Frankton. The building- would be as plain as was consistent with an upj to-date plant of the kind that would I produce the very best results and 1 low I manufacturing costs. If there would j not be sufficient cream to keep the I factory going it would help to relieve Waharoa, which was fast becomingovercrowded. A film based on Clarence E. Mu!ford’s novel “ The Orphan ” will be screened in Putaruru on Saturday next. The title is “ The Deadwood J Coach,” and tho leading- roles will be | played by Tom Mix and his wonder horse Tony.* Novelty dances galore. The fun of the season. Putaruru Cricket Club dance, Friday, April 23.* Look out for Druids' dance in May.*