LOCAL AND GENERAL.
It is stated that when the “ Daylight Limited ” is taken off the Railway Department proposes running , a train from Frankton to Auckland, ! leaving at the same time as the Daylight leaves at present. The engineer to the Matamata County Council (Mr. M. E. Fitzgerald) sounded a note of warning at the last meeting, held at Tirau on Friday, against the council deciding to do any more foundation work at present than was embodied in the current programme, otherwise they would have more foundation work than could be surfaced next summer. This year’s census figures for the Matamata town (district give a population of 1010, with a perfect balance of the sexes, 505 males and a similar number of females, the Maoris totalling one male and one female. The total population is an increase of 178 on .the 1921 figures, while, since the formation of the town district in 1918, the population has almost doubled. . Mr. N. Morpeth, who for the past eight years, has been accountant at the Morrinsville branch of the Bank , °f New' Zealand, has received notice of his transfer to Hawera. During- , his stay in Morrinsville all athletic j sports found in Mr. Morpeth a keen supporter. He was a prominent member of the Bowling Club, and was one of the club’s skips. He will be succeeded in Morrinsville by Mr. E. W. Harden, of Leeston. The vicious system of imposing protective surcharges'by means of the railway tariff, and which has frequently been condemned by the Matamata Chamber of Commerce, is thus referred to in the annual report of the Cambridge branch of the N.Z. Farmers’ Union : “ Another matter that has received attention is the ‘ policy of the Government in usingthe railway .tariff for protective purposes.’ This we consider very unfair to the man on the land, as he is penalised while the man in the city escapes. We contend that *t,he customs office is the place to collect.” A fascinating- story based on James Oliver Curwood’s novel will be screened at the Putaruru pictures on Saturday next. The title is “ The Hunted Woman” and the production is .the work of the famous Fox studios.*
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Putaruru Press, Volume IV, Issue 132, 13 May 1926, Page 4
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