LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Putaruru Press, Volume VII, Issue 270, 10 January 1929, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Mr. A. Simpson, of Putaruru, has had to take a spell from business on account of gas trouble contracted during the war and is at present in Auckland.

“ One of the quietest Christmas periods on record,” was the report of the Putaruru police so far .as Putaruru and district are concerned.

Among the recent successes of the Beverley sisters, of Matamata, was a splendid victory in the ladies’ doubles tennis championship at Rotorua, where they beat Misses Payton (Rotorua) and Wilson (Auckland), 6—2, 6—5.

Mr. N. Grafas, of Te Whetu, had a good -win with his horse Gold Star at the recent trotting meeting in Auckland. The dividend returned was a very substantial one.

Father Alink, who has been under treatment at Rotorua for arthritis for the past six months, has now returned to hfs duties much improved in health.

Mr. G. L. Martin, of Putaruru, who has been suffering for the past few weeks from arthritis, is now under treatment in King George Hospital, Rotorua, and is progressing favourably. An attempt ai; carol singing by a few Maori girls on New Year’s Eve was not attended by the results expected. Evidently this led to mischievous acts, and in consequence complaints, of which more will be heard, were made to the police.

The total entries received for the recent tennis tournament at Matamata under the organisation of the Waikato East Tennis Association were 166. This was a record and 20 more than in the previous year. The biggest increases were in the men’s singles championship—32 as against 17 last year—and the men’s handicap singles—34 as against 29. Mr. Slade-Gully’s herd of 25 cows topped the Putaruru group with an average of 42 pounds of butterfat in the latest returns of the Herd-testing Association. The herd is not a selected one, being simply the cows on hand when Mr. Slade-Gully was grazing before he took to milking. Of the 25, three were winter cows. This is another example o'f the good quality of Wiltsdown land. The similarity in appearance of two horses resulted in a peculiar incident in Putaruru last week-end. A Putaruru carrier loaned a horse to a friend for use in .a hay rake and told him where he could find the horse. In the same paddock was a lady’s hack which had not been broken to harness. By somq mischance this animal was taken, and though she seemed “ a bit fresh ” at the start, to use the borrower’s own words, she apparently accomplished her work in ladylike fashion, for no untoward incident occurred, and the hay was -duly raked.