THE PUTARURU PRESS. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1926. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Putaruru Press, Volume IV, Issue 160, 25 November 1926, Page 4

THE PUTARURU PRESS.

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1926. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

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At the Putaruru Magistrate’s Court } last Thursday, upon the application of Rose Stewart, Ernest Stewart, now of ] Taumarunui, was sentenced to one 1 month’s imprisonment for disobedi- . 1 ence of an order of the Court made : under the Destitute Persons Act, the J warrant to oe suspended providing 1 £lO 2s is paid forthwith. . ' A well-known member of the Puta- : ruru post office staff, Mr. Gordon Brown, left Putaruru on Monday on transfer to Ngaruawahia. Mr. Brown’s < good humour, courteousness and will- : ing-ness to oblige during his eight ! years in the Putaruru office had made I him a well-respected official. I-Ie is | succeeded by Mr. Thomas, of Ingle- - wood. | Considerable areas have recently - been ploughed by night in the Greytown district (says the Wairarapa Age). Suitable light is made available and advantage is taken of spells of weather suitable for tractor ploughing. The buzz of the tractor late in the evening may be heard in orchards, followed a few hours later by the throb at dawn of the milking machine on neighbouring farms. Truly an age of machinery. ' j While “ benching ” at the Bartholomew mill at Te Whetu on Friday, a man named C. Mead suffered a bad injury to his left hand. The man was clearing small pieces of wood away from the saw when a “return flitch” j caught his hand, forcing it on to the teeth of the saw. The tendon and some bone were cut, but it is not expected that any fingers will have to be amputated. The sufferer is an inmate of the King George Fifth Hospital at Rotorua. A businessman in a country town- ' ship _ not far from Napier who is worried about the amount of debts on his books has sent the following letter to some of his defaulting clients : “ Sir, herewith a pin. It is not an ordinary common or garden pin, but a really truly magic pin. It will relieve you and us also of great bother and considerable worry if you use it to attach a cheque to this letter in' payment of the statement enclosed. Please hurry, as we want to use the pin on another fellow.” One of the adjudicators at the recently-concluded Wanganui Competitions was particularly fond of a midday rest. One day loud snores were heard coming from a couch in the lounge of a Wanganui hotel, and three young ladies, who knew the gentleman concerned, were highly amused. When he had been fully refreshed by his 40 winks a note* was sent to him as follows:—“ Judge’s remarks : Production good ; rather i nasal quality ; more control on top ' notes required.” When Sandy went up to the keeper of the pearly gates to seek admission , St. Peter shook his head but condescended to make inquiries. On return- . ing he shook his head again and said “ No, Sandy, I’m afraid you can’t come in. You see, it would be an awful nuisance to have to make porridge for one.” The story must be correct, because it was told at Killinchy, a verra Scotch settlement in Canterbury, by a minister enjoying the name of Paterson, and hailing from a place called Kir wee. !; A little bit of light comedy was introduced impromptu between the i races at Trentham recently. Evidently unable to resist the lilt of “ Valencia,” as played by the band on the 1 lawn, a Maori gi’rl made her way into the circle of bandsmen and began to , dance to the rhythmic strains. The j conductor of the band took no objec- j tion to this intrusion, but rather extended the length of the selection. ! Untutored in her style, the tongue and eyes of the girl began to play their , part in the dance, giving the Spanish ] lilt a Maori twist. The performance < was becoming distinctly comical when i an irate Maori woman sighted the • performer, stalked on to the concrete n stand, and pushed the girl with 1 strong, purposeful rudeness. The girl ] only laughed, and when the woman < had allowed her attention to wander, J the girl once more commenced to ] dance, but her demand that the on- ( lookers should throw money to her e rather dampened the proceedings, and , “ Valencia ” came to an end. j l At the conclusion of the popular 1 J concert to-morrow night the Glee * Club will serve supper at the cost of ' an extra shilling, with dancing to fol- * low, the proceeds of which will go ( into the club funds. The concert will ; commence at 8 sharp and patrons are [ urged to attend as early as possible, i Concert tickets, Is.* , f 1 1 The annual bazaar of the Ladies’ i Guild of St. Paul’s Church is fixed ( for Friday, December 3, in the Puta- 1 ruru Hall. There will be the usual ( stalls, and a well-provided Christmas c tree for the children. The day’s pro- € ceedings will close with a dance when 1 the bazaar is closed.* f I f Patrons of the Putaruru pictures on i Saturday will be afforded an oppor- c tunitv of seeing on the screen a faith- J ful portrayal of what is probably the f most stirring exploit of the British > Navy. “ The Storming of Zeebrugge.” | Zeebrugge was the base for German f submarines and was a menace to . I Britain. The canal had to be blocked, j j and 2000 men volunteered to go to 1 almost certain death. See the actual j mole and original fighting-ships tak--mg part. Adults 2s, children 6d.* £

j Mr. D. H. Marshall, manager of the j Morrinsville branch of the Bank of New Zealand, has received notice of his transfer to the charge of the Masterton office. Mr. A. H. J. Wy- < att, at present accountant at the 1 Hamilton branch, succeeds Mr. Mar- | shall at Morrinsville. It is rather a : coincidence that Mr. W. D. Horne, whom Mr. Marshall is following at j Masterton, was at one time manager |at Morrinsville, leaving to go to Masterton. j Occasionally some unconsciously- : humorous letters are received by labour agents, and one such came from an elderly man quite recently, says the Dunedin Star. It was illspelt and badly written, the writer ' stating that he wanted a woman as housekeeper or companion, but th t he could not pay a big wage as 1 e did not go to work himself. He de- | sired “ a tidy woman about 50, clean, and fairly smart in looks/’ What he really wanted, he declared, was a woman who would like a home, because if he took a liking to her, a" .1 , she to him, then he might marry her within a month ! ] Bran tub dips of all sizes and descriptions have been made an illegal | game of chance by the heads the ! Gisborne police, and it is authoritatively stated that prosecution will follow for any person or organisation found conducting dips. Although various organisations have been running bran tubs for years, this is the first occasion on which the police officials have declared them illegal within the meaning of the provisions of the Act pertaining to lotteries. Trouble first arose recently, when one of the queen carnival committees was j conducting a big bran tub at a street corner in the town, and received a warning *from the police, and again at the show several side-shows were instructed by the police to stop bran tub dipping. I “ I was commanding the Canterbury Battalion at the time, and we were camped in a small village on our way down to the Somme,” said MajorGeneral Young at a returned soldiers’ gathering in the Gisborne City Hall recently, when recalling war-time i incidents. “ Someone got away with our tea, and I consented to beer being issued instead. The boys all filed past and filled their dixies. One man walked a few steps, lifted his dixie, and smelt the contents. He tasted it, and then burst out : ‘ What, beer ! And I nearly didn’t come to the war.’” (Laughter.) “ The method of electing members ; of the Education Board is, to my mind, ridiculous,” said Mr. J. Aitken, the chairman, at a public indignation ' meeting at Wanganui (relates a i Wanganui exchange). The voting strength of the community was something like 10,000, but only 68 individuals school committeemen—were privileged to elect members of the Education Board. The board members served four years, and at the end of that term they had to give practically no account of their stewardship, as the constitution of most school committees had altered in the meantime. Opposition to afty attempt that may be made to have the tariff on agricultural implements raised was advocated , in a Southland remit which was considered by the Dominion executive of , the New Zealand Farmers’ Union in Wellington. In the course of discussion it was pointed out that the Australian farmer, under protection, is able to buy fin Australian-made fourfurrow plough, weighing 15cwt 141 b, for £34 4s, while the New Zealander, with no duty, has to pay £43 17s 6d for the S 3 me type of plough, weighing 14cwt 3qr 141 b. In the case of a three- , furrow disc, the New Zealander lias j to pay £7 2s more for a plough 421 b lighter than the Australian, whilst on a double-furrow plough the difference is 2cwt 2qr 211 b more on an Australian plougji for £4 12s money. The executive decided to ask the Southland branch to reconsider its t remit. j ! Concerning feminine smoking in the | United States, Mr. H. H. Shelton, of 1 Washington, vice-president of the U.S. Tobacco Merchants’ Association, which handles 95 per cent, of the tobacco business of American States, said women not only are smoking more cigarettes, but they are demanding stronger tobacco. “We put out mild cigarettes when the women’s trade began to be a big factor in our business,” said Mr. Shelton, “ but we soon had to use heavy tobacco. The female of the species wants hers as hefty as her brother demands, and of course we complied. I have not the exact figures at hand, but more girls and women are taking up the cigarj ette habit daily. One of our concerns 1 in North Carolina is putting out more than 100,000,000 cigarettes a day. Uncle Sam’s revenue from the tobacco trade is more than 1,250,000 dollars daily.” I The advisability of allowing boys to remain at secondary schools for the [ j full four-year course whenever possible was urged by the headmaster of the Kawera High School (Mr. A. Gray) at a recent meeting of the board (reports the Hawera Star). Mr. Gray said he could recall a number of cases in which boys, only partially equipped with high school training, had not met with the success in professional life which they could coni fidently have been expected to achieve if allowed to complete the school course. He appreciated the difficulties which sometimes confronted parents in keeping boys at school for the four-year period, but he strongly advised" that every effort should be made ' to do so. Mr. Gray further intimated j that no difficulty was experienced in following the school policy of placing pupils who qualified in suitable occupations and taking a subsequent I interest in their careers, and for the i future benefit of those who received i tuition, as well as for the credit of , the school, it was naturally desired ; that the fullest possible training should be afforded.