LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Putaruru Press, Volume VI, Issue 246, 19 July 1928, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

William Ware, billiards room proprietor, and Richard Wilfred Williams, marker, were arrested at Arapuni last week on gaming charges. Accused were released on bail amounting to £IOO, pending the hearing of the charges in the Putaruru Court on July 26. The many friends of Mr. W. H. Barnett, one of the district’s earliest settlers, will be pleased to learn that an operation he recently underwent for the removal of cataracts from the eyes was completely successful and that he can now see to read a paper for the first time in 16 years.

“Just as the farmers cannot farm impoverished land, so we cannot farm impoverished farmers, - ' said Mr. A. Wyatt, manager of the Morrinsville branch of the Bank of New Zealand, amid laughter, when referring at the Morriifeville Farmers’ Union smoke concert on Saturday to the general approval expressed by farmers at the drop in the bank rate.—Morrinsville Star.

Mr. K. L. McWatters, of the Matamata branch of the Bank of New Zealand, left on Saturday on relieving work. He will first go to Whangarei. Prior to his departure, on behalf of himself and the staff Mr. W. R. Stevens presented Mr. McWatters with a handsome fountain pen as a mark of .esteem, Mr. G. W.' Holden, of the . Cambridge branch, succeeds 1 Mr. McWatters.

Speaking cf subsidies, at Saturday evening’s Morrinsville Farmers’ Union smoke concert, Captain Col beck said he disapproved of thi3 method of finance, as someone else had to pay. He would oppose a subsidy being given to a farmer. The farmer had no to it. If he could not run his business . without State assistance then let it go down. No one could prove to him that subsidies were of benefit to anyone.