MATAMATA RECORD. MONDAY, MAY 7, 1923. Brief Mention of all Minor Happenings in Matamata and Vicinity.

Matamata Record, Volume XV, Issue 432, 7 May 1923, Page 2

MATAMATA RECORD. MONDAY, MAY 7, 1923.

Brief Mention of all Minor Happenings in Matamata and Vicinity.

The Only Paper Published in the Matamata County. Office: Tui Street. T.O. Box 38. 'Phone 82.

The Auckland Education Board has been notified by the Department that a grant of £2OO has been made for the purchase of four acres of land at Wardville, Waharoa. Messrs. W. Glair and A. McArthuv, of Matamata, left on Monday for a couple of days' shooting in the lauranga district. They returned with 5i brace of pheasants and a couple of wild pigs. Sickness has been rampant in Matamata during the last few days Mr. L. Watkius, of the High School stall, v.-; been seized with a severe indisposition, necessitating his being granted leave of absence for several weeks. Mr. Watkins has gone to Hamilton, where his people are residing. A slight coincidence is noticeable in the names of the new Okauia school committee, which with- one. exception •ill begin with the second letter o 1 tli». alphabet. This prompted a householder who was present at the annua meeting to remark that he hoped the} would all prove " Busy B. s. The condition of Mr. K. Graham., of Matamata, has been causing MS friends some little anxiety. Mr. Graham was taken ill on Wednesday night-and medical aid being summoned; his illness was stated to bepleurisy and pneumonia combined. The latest advice is that there is a slight improvement in the patient's condition. The sowing of this season's soft turnips has had some peculiar results but those obtained by a Springdale farmer are perhaps the most " peculiar. He sowed a small portion of his paddock one afternoon and the remainder was sown the next day with the same seed. The part sown first vleldetl a good crop, but that sown'the following day showed no signs of growth whatever.

"I think we should now petition the Government to have our county excluded from the Thames Harbour Board's area," said the chairman, Cr. J W. Anderson, at Friday's meeting of the Matamata County Council. Other members agreed that following the defeat of the loan proposals the Thames Harbour Board would not be anxious to retain jurisdiction over such hostile areas and it was resolved that the petition be prepared. During the influenza epidemic in Melbourne the big Exhibition Building was used as a hospital..and a very draughtv, uncomfortable place it was. On youth grew so tired of it that he walked 6ut and went home. A couple of davs later he went up and asked how lie was getting on, stating that he was his own brother. He was gravely assured that he was doing very well." Are you prepared to live with your husband again?" was a Question put bv Mr. Slipper the other day to a lady Who was applying in the Wanganui Court for a separation order(sa>s the Wanganui Chronicle). les, it he alters his ways and joins the Salvation- Army," replied the witness. The surprised look on the husbands face appeared to indicate that he did not fancy the prospect of wearing a red jersey. It is suggested that the origin of the phrase, " a little bird told me, is to be found in the Bible, not in the story of Mahomet. Ecclcstiastes, X, 90- "Curse not the King; no, not in thy thought; and curse not the rich in'thv bedchamber; for a bird of the air shall carry the voice, and that which hatch wings shall tell the matter."

One evening recently a commercial traveller left his motor car; together with his samples standing outside in the street all night at New Plymouth says the Taranaki Herald. Next morning the samples had disappeared The thief would be considerably disappointed upon opening the cases, as all the boots, being samples, were for the same foot. The joke, however, was not only against the light-fing-ered gentleman. The owner of the goods visited the police station, and laid his complaint regarding the disappearance of his goods. He took hack with him a cordial invitation to explain the reason for leaving a car out on a public road unattended at night. -