LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Putaruru Press, Volume VI, Issue 229, 22 March 1928, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Members of the Putaruru To™ Board and Chamber of Commerce will make a tour of the Arapuni lake on Sunday, under the guidance of Mr. E. J. Darby .

Owing to pressure of work Mr. S. L. Paterson, S.M., has advised the Putaruru Clerk of the Court that he has postponed his visit to Putaruru, which should have taken place to-day, until Friday week, March 30.

The gross takings at the Tirau Presbyterian flower show and bazaar amounted to £lOl 10s Old, a wonderful result considering the adverse season. This will enable the committee to pay off the remaining debt on the church and almost pay for the site for the manse which it is proposed to build.

Some amusement was created at the last meeting of the Putaruru Town Board, when the clerk read a letter written to a ratepayer who complained about stock wandering on the road, to the effect that action was being taken, and “ that at the moment of writing one of your o\vn horses is walking across the road in front of the post office unattended.”

Messrs. W. W. Livingstone (Matamata), Mr. Farrow (Waitoa) and another local sportsman have drawn a three-rifle deerstalking block in South Westland. Mr. Livingstone left on Tuesday night and will break his journey at Christchurch, where he will be joined by his companions. The shooting trip is expected to last about three weeks or a month. Will’s Valley, where the block is situated, is said to have provided some of the best heads obtained in New' Zealand in recent years.

There were two mystified people at Putaruru the other evening. One was a jeweller and the other a young man interested in poultry. The jeweller had recently mended some clocks for the brother of the poultry fancier, and approached the latter at a sale of Harvest Festival produce, thinking it was the man he had mended the clocks for. “ How are the clocks ? ” was the remark. “ Oh, all right,” was the answer. “We had them for dinner on Sunday, though.” The jeweller wondered where he was and the poultry man wonders how the plague the jeweller knew anything about his male birds.

It is remarkable the number of guide books that now flood the offices, private houses, steamers and all places where the people live or assemble. Books of towns and particular districts are especially plentiful, the main purpose of the publishers being to induce uninstructed tradesmen to take advertising space therein, but the value of such space as an advertising medium is just about nil. We have before us, as we write, two guide books upon English towns and a third dealing with a New Zealand county. No doubt we shall receive more before the week is out, but their multiplicity chokes the average businessman off perusing any of them and they go into the waste paper basket. What the businessman should bear in mind when outsiders call upon him for support of some new-old advertising stunt or other is that the production can only *>e one of a multitude of such things, and therefore merely glanced at and cast aside.

Rev. E. Ward will by request deliver a lecture in the Presbyterian Hall on Tuesday, March 27, at 8 p.m., bis subject being “ Spooks.” The lecture is a continuation of the sermon preached by Rev. Ward in St. Paul’s Church a few Sundays ago and which caused quite a controversy. Several local ladies and gentlemen .will render .musical i'c.ns. Admission Is. The proceeds will be donated to the Melanesian Mission.*