LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Putaruru Press, Volume VI, Issue 268, 24 December 1928, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The next publication of the Putaruru Press will be_ on Thursday afternoon. January 3.* Constable ,W. Brown, of Ngaruawahia, brother of Mr. C. D. Brown, of Putaruru, has passed his examination for a sub-inspectorship. Among the names of those recently listed as having passed the solicitors’ final examination was that of Mr. J. R. O. Lochhead, Putaruru.

The engagement is announced of Miss Catherine Leslie, eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. F. F. Hoekly, of Rotorua, to Mr. Frank Montgomery Grove, second son of Mrs. Grove senior and the late Mr. C. W. Grove, of Rotorua. . ■

An interesting butterfat statement was shown to a Putaruru Press representative this week by a Putaruru farmer. The returns showed that 43573 pounds of butterfat had been sent to the factory, 40973 pounds of which were superfine. The month’s cheque totalled £3OB 2s Bd. The release of Hungarian partridges in their wild state in the Matamata district not having proved satisfactory, a few brace have been sent by the Auckland Acclimatisation Society to keep In captivity for breeding purposes. It is anticipated that there will be little trouble in getting a suitable area of two thousand acres locked up for game preservation.—Matamata Record.

An amusing story against himself is told by Sir Watson Cheyne. On one occasion the famous surgeon was about to operate on a child at a London hospital when he received a call to a case in the country. The operation being but a slight one hefiniahdd it before leaving, but as he was about to depart he was stopped by the father of the child, who was anxious to know how the patient was faring. Sir Watson was pleased to be able to say that the child had every prospeet of recovery, but the parent was still unsatisfied and had much, to ask regarding the details of the operation. Noticing at length that Sir Watson was becoming impatient, the other explained the reason for his interrogation. “ I hope you don’t mind my asking so many questions,” he said, “ but, yon see, I’m a butcher myself.”