Brief Mention.

Matamata Record, Volume XIII, Issue 1104, 10 March 1930, Page 4

Brief Mention.

“We ought to get a permit to I raffle it,” remarked Mr. J. Price ' (Matamata), facetiously, when the Thames Valley Power Board was discussing ways and means of selling a section which it owns at Thames. “ The needlework classes are out of date, and some of the girls tell me they would not wear some of the things in the schedule,” stated the secretary of the A. and P. Association, amidst laughter, at the last meeting of the Matamata A. and P. executive. Members quickly agreed that such a state of affairs could not be allowed to remain and arrangements were made for this section to be brought up-to-date. At last week’s meeting of the Thames Valley Electric Power Board, Mr. J. Pohlen (Matamata) complained that the minutes of the February meeting did not show how each member had voted on the question of the board contributing to the advertising scheme which was adopted by five votes to four. After, some discussion Messrs. Pohlen, F. E. Flatt and C. A. Arthur asked that it be j recorded in the minutes that they had voted against the publicity scheme, agreed to by the board. In conversation after the meeting, Mr. Pohlen said that people in his district had asked how he voted on the proposal, and he thought reference ) the advertising scjieme had not appeared in the Record. A full report of the discussion appeared in the Record on February 10, and Mr. Pohlen was recorded as saying he could not support the motion. The eighth annual Presbyterian Flower Show arid Industrial Exhibition will be held in the Tirau Public Hall on Friday, March 14.*

Inspector Eccles, in charge of the Hamilton Police District, visited Matamata on Saturday last. “ When I took this place nine years ago you could see the bare ground, but now there is a splendid sole of grass,” said a Mangateparu settler. “It is all due to topdressing manure has pulled me through,” he explained. “ If that is all the complaints you have you ought to congratulate yourself,” stated Mr. R. W. Stevens to the secretary of the Matamata A. and P. 'Association, when a few minor show matters were adjusted at the meeting of the executive on Wednesday. “ l heard of a bricklayer who had a section and who offered, if a man supplied the bricks, to build a 5roomed bungalow free and to transfer the whole property over to get rid of it,” said a member at Tuesday’s meeting of the Thames Valley Electric Power Board, when the troubles of section-owners at Thames were being discussed.