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Putaruru Press, Volume IV, Issue 137, 17 June 1926, Page 5

Demonstrating the mildness of the winter, a Morrinsville resident state! yesterday that his strawberry plants were in flower and had several fairsized berries on them. A few of the berries were starting to ripen.— Morrinsville Star. There is a certain Christchurch citizen who displays amazing zeal in the prompt payment of his quota towards the expense of city administration (states the Press). For the fifth year in succession recently he paid a deposit on the next year’s rates, and for the last five years he has been the possessor of the first receipt from the machine in the rate collector’s department at the City Council office. AVhat is perhaps the largest cabbage ever seen in Wanganui was on exhibition at the Frankleigh Park Chrysanthemum Show (states a Wanganui paper). Some idea of its size may be gathered from the fact that it covild not be cut with a knife, and it is understood that it had to be “felled” with an axe. It was taken to the hall on a lorry and required two men to lift it into the building. As the grower is also a chrysanthemum exhibitor something phenomenal in that 'direction may possibly be looked for in the future.