LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Putaruru Press, Volume IV, Issue 134, 27 May 1926, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Commission to hear evidence concerning the boundaries of the proposed Putaruru town district will sit on June 8. Mrs. J. P. Robinson, mother of Mrs. W. Morrice and Mr. A. Robinson, of Morrinsville, died at Devonport, Auckland, on Saturday. Mr. W. C. Bond, stationmaster at Putaruru, is at present on annual leave, and Mr. C. B. Weenick, of the relief staff, Auckland, is acting in his place. Commissioner Hodder, chief of the New Zealand branch of the Salvation Army, and Colonel Knott, of Canada, the newly-appointed chief secretary for this Dominion, paid a visit of inspection to the boy’s training iax-m at Patetere last week-end.

Waharoa has now a sufficient number of houses within a given area to enable the people to form a town district under the county if They so desire. Taking an area that would qertainly be included in the town district, the population is about 300, or more than double the number of people living in the same area at the 1921 census date. Mrs. T. Grayson, of Matamata, a septuagenarian, intends making a trip to the United Kingdom with her son-in-law, Mr. T. Griffiths, of Rotorua, and his wife and two children. Mr. Griffiths takes with him some lantern slides of Rotorua scenes and of the dairying industry, and he intends to give illustrated lectures at Home. It is intended to leave Wellington on June 3.—Matamata Record. At the last meeting of the Putaruru Chamber of Commerce Mr. E. J. Darby urg-ed that all correspondence from the chamber to the Matamata County Council should go through him as member for the riding, otherwise when the matter came up for discussion at the council table he was not in a position to deal with tire questions at issue. It was only a simple matter but it tended to more efficient organisation in regard to local affairs. At the Putaruru Court on Tuesday, before Messrs. .L W. Barr Brown and H. J. W. Scott, J.’s P., Robert Barker j was charged with forging and utteri ing- a cheque for the value ox £3 pur- ! porting to be drawn by Mr. R. J. Wil- ' son, of Putaruru. Evidence was given by Mr. Wilson, for whom Barker had worked recently, Mr. McMeekin, barman, who cashed the cheque, and Mr. H. G. Lucas, head ledgerkeeper at the Bank of New" Zealand, Hamilton. Accused pleaded g-uilty and was remanded to .the Supreme Court for sentence. Census enumerators have some I amusing- experiences. One of Dannevirke’s sober and respectable citizens, who was acting in this capacity, tells a story against -himself. He went to call at a house in the country to collect the census papers (reports the Evening News), but the uninviting appearance of a big dog caused him misgivings. Before deciding to venture up to the house, he thought he "would make inquiries from a man ■ whom he saw working nearby. {“Does the d.og bite?” he politely and anxiously inquired, and he was j provoked to smile when he received ; the unexpected reply : “ Oh, yes, he | bit the last swagger who called ; here ” ! Very considerable reductions have been made in the Thames Vallej i Power Board’s outside employees ! lately, about 50 men having had then j services terminated. Among a bate! j of five put off at Matamata recent!} jwas one married man with threi ' children, who was put off at a day’: ’ notice. The Power Board’s busines: 1 must be run on business lines, am : men whose services are no longer re quired must look for work elsewhere hut it would- purely not make mud | difference to the business as a wholi " j if married men who had been in thi ■ board’s employ for say three month: • were given a fortnight’s notice of th, termination of their employment. Ti put a married man, who has a famil; ' and has set up a home in the town s off at a day’s notice is unnecessarily . harsh. —Matamata Record. ! “ The Wings of Youth.” a Fox pro i duction, will be screened next Satur i day. The cast includes Madg-i , Bellamy, Ethel Clavton, Charles Far 1 rail, Freeman Wood, Robert Cain am Katherine Perry. “ Folly laughed 1 an: i the fools danced to her tune.”*