Brief Mention.

Matamata Record, Volume XIII, Issue 1112, 7 April 1930, Page 4

Brief Mention.

Mr. A. Crowther has been laid up for some time owing to injuries received through slipping and falling off a cart in the course of his farm work. Mr. Crowther’s many friends will wish him a speedy recovery. The vital statistics for Matamata for the past month and quarter are as follows, the figures for the previous .-year being given in parentheses: —Month: Births 12 (14), deaths, nil (nil), marriages 4 (3). Quarter: Births 37 (45), deaths 3 (4), marriages 11 (7). A paddock sale reported recently proves that dairy farmers now fully recognise the value of herds which attain a high average production of butter-fat. Mr. J. Ryan’s (Te Awamutu) choice herd of 28 Jersey cows, which averaged 4331 b of fat for the 1928-29 season, were sold at £2O per head to a Matamata buyer. One of the victims of the level crossing accident near Whangarei on Saturday evening was Miss Irene Darwin, a daughter of Mr. Joseph Darwin, of Peria road, Matamata, a sharemillcer for Mr. George England. Miss Darwin left Matamata about three weeks ago for Hikurangi, where the family had resided previously. Mr. R. W. Stevens advises that the rainfall for March totalled 90 points. Rain fell on five days., the heaviest fall being on the 24th, when 67 points were registered. In March, 1929, the fall was 3.71 inches, spread over _ll days, the heaviest downpour being 1.25 inches on the 29th of the month. Two frosts were registered in March this year, there being degrees on the 26th and 3 degrees on the 27th. Visitors to the Morrinsville and Matamata districts last, week were Mr. and Mrs. A. Lees, of Okaiawa, Taranaki, Mr. Lees is secretary of the T. L. Joll Co-operative Dairy Company, which has several .factories in Taranaki, and is a member , and a former chairman of the Taranaki Education Board. While staying for a few days, with Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Dakers, of Te Puninga, Mr. Lees ■divided his attention between dairying and education, visiting the factories at Waitoa and Matamata and the Te Puninga School and the Matamata Junior High School. At Te Puninga he addressed the scholars and congratulated them on possessing such an up-to-date school and such well-planted grounds. As there are no junior high schools in Taranaki Mr. Lees was keenly interested in what he saw when escorted through the Matamata school by the headmaster, Mr. J. F. Wells, who showed how the children moved up from class to class. Mr. Lees hopes to revisit the district in a month’s time.