LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Putaruru Press, Volume VII, Issue 294, 27 June 1929, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

At the meeting of the Putaruru Beautifying Society on Monday evening, Mr. Tomalin offered to donate poplar trees, together with several lilacs. The offer was accepted with thanks. A severe storm passed over Putaruru on Monday night The display of lightning was especially vivid. Several residents report having experienced a sharp earthquake shoe* at 2.30 on Tuesday morning. The Putaruru Beautifying Society decided at its meeting on Monday night to write to the Railway Department seeking permission to use the plot between the two railway gates for beautifying purposes, the work to coincide with the town improvements to be effected by the Town Board. The teachers’ room at the Putaruru District High School has been made attractive and comfortable by the addition of a settee and a very fine office table. A congoleum square completes the furnishings, which have been supplied by the Auckland Education Board. Plunket-Nurse Parker,, in reporting to the Putaruru suo-branch of the Plunxet Society, on the work of the last month, stated that the health of the mothers and babies was on the whole good. Visits to the rooms were paid by 24 adults, 20 babies and 3 children. Two new cases (one mother and one baby) were added. The- altered train service has caused some inconvenience at tne local district high school, in that the cmluien coming by train have to leave earlier in the afternoon. In Older that they may get in their usual full time, they assemble at 8.30 a.m., necessitating the attendance of the teachers at that hour instead of 9 o’clock. In congratulating the Ngarua district on its success in high butterfat production, Mr. W. C. Kennedy said at a social lunction at Ngarua on Wednesday evening: “ I hope they will maintain their good lead, but in the event of being beaten 1 sincerely trust they will not burn their factory down out of spite like Manawaru.”

Mr. Ray Edge, of Cambridge, who a month ago met with a serious accident as the result of a fall from a tree opposite Mr. J. Pohlen’s property, Matamata, has sufficiently recovered to leave the hospital and return home. He is making satisfactory piigress towards recovery, but it will be some time yet before he will b. able to resume work.

That the day of horses and gigs has passed is the inference to be drawn from the fact that at a clearing sale in the Tirau district on Thursday a gig and harness in perfect order and condition failed to realise a bid, though the auctioneer went as low as £1 in search of a starting price. “ You must all have motor cars,” remarked the knight of the hammer, as he passed on to the next lot.

That a butter factory was bound to be erected at Putaruru sooner or later, was the opinion freely expressed at the meeting of the Beautifymg Society on Monday evening. The question arose when the matter of beautifying the reserve on the Taupo road was under discussion. This site was stated to be the ideal one for the erection of a factory. The matter of doing anything along the lines of the society’s scope was therefore deferred.

The trustees of the Putaruru Bowling, Croquet and Tennis Club (Inc.) met on Friday, Mr. T. F. Snell being in the chair. It was decided to pay one-half of the existing* mortgage immediately, and arrangements were made to obtain an advance from the bank, supported by a guarantee to pay off the balance. Gratification was expressed at the splendid result of the recent queen carnival, which has at last miablea the trustees to bring about a reduction in the mortgage. I am surprised at the cheapness of land in the South Island compared with the coSC of that in the North Island,” said one of the officials of the South fiaranaki farmers’ na-G* at, AsU'nr. n The land, generally, was equally as good, hut i prices slioweu a variation. The average price for land in the Taranaki district was about £6O per acre, and even as high as £SS and £9O had been paid. In the North Island there were fewer homesteads on the land, however. The box scheme of the Putaruru branch of the W.E.A. was advanced a further stage on Saturday evening, when a lecture on “ Modern Tendencies in Music ” was taken at Mrs. Alcorn’s residence. The lecture was most interesting and examples of the types of music were given by gramophone records. The most enjoyable portion of the evening was the rendering by Mrs. Alcorn of some songs typical of the modem masters, whilst Mrs. Tulloch played a few characteristic pieces by wellknown and new composers. An enjoyable and greatly appreciated supper was dispensed by the ladies, and this was followed by an animated discussion.