LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Putaruru Press, Volume IV, Issue 133, 20 May 1926, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A Fitting of the Magistrate’s Court is being held in Putaruru to-day. The contractor for the new police station at Putaruru, Mr. Giles, of Auckland, has commenced work, and good progress has been made with the foundations. The contract price is £1469. A Ford car owned by natives of Tirau, while avoiding- another vehicle near the junction of Princes street with the Arapuni road, collapsed, the wheels giving way. Luckily the car was proceeding slowly at the time and no one was hurt. Great inconvenience has been caused to Putaruru businessmen through the repeated failure cf the electric light in the early evenings. For some days past the stoppage has been a nightly occurrence and it would appear that the recent! y transformer in Princes street is not equal to the task imposed on it. Inability at the moment to .think of more suitable terms often prompts members of the farming community to burst forth with some most unusual expressions. At a meeting* of Kereone suppliers of the Morrinsville Co-op. Dairy Co. last week a supplier proposed that the annual “ shickeroo ” be abandoned. The meeting, however, was not similarly inclined, and a motion was carried urging the directors to carry on with their annual socials. Buck Jones, one of the popular idols of the picture house, pi avs the leading role in “ The Trail Rider,” to be shown in Putaruru next Saturday. The story is an exciting one of the Western plains.* The Ladies’ Guild of St. Paul’s Church, Putaruru, intends holding a PaddvV Market in the Putaruru Public Hall on Saturday, 22nd May, commencing at 11.30 a.m. In addition to produce there will be also work, cake and sweet stalls. Lunch and afternoon tea will be provided. Donations of anything saleable will be thankfully received.* I sigh for the surf and summer calms, Havanna cigars and shady palms, And the cloudless realms where brown belles be On sunkist isles of the southern sea. Whilst here I inhale ’neath skies of grav Bronchial infection by night and day, Consoled by the ease and comfort sure I find in Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure. (5)