LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Putaruru Press, Volume VII, Issue 279, 14 March 1929, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

During last month special efforts were made by the Matamata County Council to clear ragwort from county property and reserves. Six Brown Spanish onions pulled at random from a local garden as a gift for a friend proved when weighed to tip the scale at 51b 14Joz. One of the onions weighed 18loz. At the last meeting of the Putaruru Town Board it was unanimously decided to take immediate steps against certain owners of motor vehicles who were causing wilful damage to the new loan works.

The Public Works Department is surveying the hilly portions of No. 18 main highway between Pairere and Karapiro in readiness for general improvements to be carried out as relief works.

The Te Awamutu branch of the New Zealand Farmers’ Union is submitting to the annual provincial conference a remit that “ the time is opportune for the creation of a provincial executive in the Waikato, with headquarters at Hamilton, and with a full-time secretary-organiser.” “ The inspector said he had seen patches of ragwort in flower between farmers’ houses and their cowsheds, so that they had almost to fall over it, yet they did nothing to clear the weed,” said a member of the Matamata County Council on Friday during a discussion on ragwort.

A remarkable minor accident Happened in Morrinsviila on Friday. A child was riding in a touring motor car when a little stone, about half the size of a pea, was thrown up by the wheel. The penet lodged in the chamber of the child’s ear, and medical assistance had to be sought to extract it.

An increase in output of 87 per cent for the season has occurred at the Morrinsville Dairy Co. To the and of February the amount of Butter manufactured totalled 997 tons, compared with 725 tons for the corresponding period of the previous season. The output for February was 112 tons as against 62 tons for February, iMfc At well-known lady resident reetSveS a nice surprise last week when digging a self-sown crop of potatoes. The plants had grown from skins which had been thrown out on the usual compost heap found in most gardens and when dug a fine crop of tubers was found. Two of the potatoes when weighed sealed 21b s&oz.

Mr. M. Peffers, a recent arrival in the district, and residing on Tapapa road, has been asked to judge the Jerseys at the Morrinsville A. and P. Show.

On the motion of Mr. G. G. Bell, of Matamata, Mr. James Russell Oswald Lochhead, of Putaruru, was last Saturday admitted a solicitor of the Supreme Court of New Zealand.

Miss M. Semple, who has been relieving at Patetere school for the past few weeks, left on Monday for Auckland. Miss Semple has secured a teaching appointment near Gisborne and commences duty after the Easter holidays.

Mr. K. S. Cox, Ongaroto, and Mr. W. C. Hewitt, Auckland, left on Monday to attend the land settlement conference in Wellington, where they will further the policy inaugurated by the Putaruru Chamber of Commerce. Mr. Cox, who is acting as delegate for the Matamata County Council, will move several resolutions to this end.

On Monday, before Messrs. J. W. Barr Brown and T. F. Snell, J.’s P., at the Putaruru Court, Thomas Patrick Kavanagh was charged with using obscene language in Princes street on Saturday. He was also charged with drunkenness. On the charge of drunkenness he was fined 10s, and on the other charge £5, in default three months*' imprisonment. He was allowed one month to pay.

“ They have been howling out for rain and now they have got it,” remarked a resident of Putaruru one night last week as he stood, in the pouring rain disconsolately surveying a punctured tyre of his motor car. Maybe his remark was prompted by the fact that he was some five miles from Putaruru and that it was two hours past his usual tea hour.

An unsolicited word of praise for the shop hands in Putaruru was voiced by a visitor from Auckland last week. He was speaking to the Press representative and remarked that he had been purchasing several articles about the town. “In every shop I found the attendants -were most courteous and obliging,” he said, “ and they can give the lead to some places I Could mention.”

Miss Jean Flyger, who fractured her shoulder through a fall from a horse she was riding at the recent Matamata Show, is well on the road to recovery. She is still confined to her bed, but is fit and well enough to receive visitors, and the last we ft or so has seen a continual stream <f callers, testifying in itself to the popularity of this young Putaruru girl.

It is persistently rumoured that the train due at Putaruru at 10.5 a.m. will arrive in on time one day within the next month. Residents are awaiting the occasion with bated breath and have the flag ready to run to the masthead in celebration of this unique event. There may be nothing in it; of course, as the same rumour was circulated concerning the Limited.

Speaking a't a meeting to consider publicity matters in Napier, businessmen urged the value of newspaper advertisements (reports the Napier Daily Telegraph). Mr. J. Harris said the newspaper advertisements caught the reader in a receptive frame of mind after he had had his tea and finished his day’s work and were more impressive to readers than poster propaganda. Mr. A. Hobson agreed. Newspaper advertising had a psychological effect upon its readers not given by any other form of publicity.

A bad habit which is showing signs of becoming a menace to the district is being noticed among motorists, especially visitors. That is in the failure to sound their horns. Motor cars at any time are a danger to the unwary pedestrian but they are infinitely worse when the motorist fails to give word of his coming. Several times lately cars have shot round the street corners without the common courtesy of a warning blast from the horn, and several times a pedestrian has been compelled to exercise more than the usual amount of agility. Maybe the local police will watch for the offenders.

Outstandingly beautiful and in exquisite taste was the-winning baby carriage at the garden fete on Saturday. This was decorated by Miss Ada Beca in opalescent shades of blue, the tiny boy occupant being also dressed in blue from head to foot. The carriage itself was covered in turquoise crinkled paper and then artistically decorated with blue hydrangeas, the whole being generally considered the most beautiful item in a procession of particularly-well-decorated vehicles.

During the progress of the cricket match between Putaruru and Arapuni Messrs. Jones and Sorby, of Arapuni, collided violently in the field while taking a high ball. Both were temporarily stunned but Mr. Sorby was able to resume nlay after a short stoppage. A substitute had to be found for Mr. Jones, however. At another stage of the game Mr. Dawson, also of Arapuni, was backing up behind the wicketkeeper when he lost sight of a high ball in the sun. Turning his back to ft he was hit with the full pitch of the hall On the back of the head and fell like a log. He recovered after a few minutes, however; and kept his place in the field.

The annual dower show under the auspices of the Tirau Presbyterian Ladies’ Guild will be held on Friday, March 15. The ladies have worked hard and it is expected that the show will be well up to previous standards. *