LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Putaruru Press, Volume VII, Issue 274, 7 February 1929, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Mr. E. Gummier, late of Morrinsville but now of Hamilton, is relieving at the Putaruru blanch of the Bank of New Zealand.

“ When I went through the Putaruru and Arapuni districts • about 1915 I felt that I had more ragwort on my farm at Matamata than there was in the whole of this district,” stated a member of the Putaruru Chamber of Commerce on Monday last.

A young girl, a first offender, charged with stealing a gold ring, a nightdress and a sum of money at Okoroire, was severely admonished by the presiding justices at the Putaruru court on Friday, and ordered to come up for sentence when called upon. The police stated that restitution had been made.

Mr. 11. M. Leggo, chairman of directors of the Hercules Gold Mining Company Ltd., Bendigo, Victoria, presented Mr. Chapman, captain of the English, cricket team, with a cricket ball made of local gold, during the tea interval of the match against the local side, as a memento of the visit. Mr. Leggo is a keen bowler and toured New Zealand last year with the Australian bowlers. With a party of Hastings players he visited Putaruru during the tour and played on the Putaruru green. While at Putaruru Mr. Leggo showed remarkable generosity and to each mernfcr of the Putaruru club who happened to be present that day he presented a small reminder of the occasion. These mementos ranged from pinkie forks to views of Bendigo.

Horticultural and *indils trial exhibition, Putaruru Halt, Friday, February TS, under auspices St. Paul’s Vestry. Schedules may be obtained from Mrs. Rolfe. All entries- should be handed in to secretary on night before the show. A d: nee will follow the show.*

Mr. Leslie has sold his farm comprising over 1000 acres at Tapapa to Mr. J. T. Halcroft, of Arapuni. Mr. Haicroft took possession last week. Father Zanna, of Rotorua, has taken Father Alink’s place as resident minister at Putaruru. Father Alink is now on the staff of the Boy s Maori College at Takapuna. A fairly considerable amount of warm light rain has fallen at nights during the past week and the pastures and second growth on hay ■ fields have benefited accordingly. •• Real cockies’ weather,” said a Putaruru farmer in describing the rainfall. The übiquity of ragwort is notorious, and hardly anyone is safe from the charge of harbouring the plant. Consequently, when a member of the .Putaruru chamber pointed suggestively to the secretary after the chamber had agreed to write to the Minister of Agriculture on the subject, that he had better clean up that patch by his gate, the official innocently agreed, amidst loud laughter, that he

“ believed there was a patch there.” Mr. W. Malcolm, of Tirau, met with a motor accident while driving a light bus to the Okoroire mill. The vehicle was negotiating a hill in driving rain when the lights failed and it ran off the road and capsized over a bank. Mr. Malcolm was thrown clear but his wife and four children were thrown heavily into the ditch. Two of the children were penned beneath a benzine drum, Jean Malcolm sustaining a broken leg and Isabel Malcolm a broken jaw. Mr. Malcolm and Mr. D. Jones, a passenger, succeeded after considerable difficulty in rolling the drum from the children. Both sufferers were admitted to the Waikato Hospital. Mr. Malcolm is a shareholder working for Mr. Lange, farmer, Okoroire.