Brief Mention.

Matamata Record, Volume XVI, Issue 1443, 20 July 1933, Page 4

Brief Mention.

The Hinuera Co-operative Dairy Company, Ltd., will distribute £1513 to-morrow for June supply of butterfat.

Eight large trees, ; pn the Bank of New Zealand section at Putaruru have been given tp Putaruru men who are out of work. The Bank has also insured the men against accident.

A valuable draught horse owned by Mr. G. McDonald, of Putaruru, sustained a broken fetlock and had to be destroyed on Monday. The horse, which was only recently acy quired by Mr. McDonald, was being driven, with others, back to a paddock when it was hit by a motor car which was proceeding to Thames.

A chance visit to his office at night by a Matamata businessman saved a destructive fire a few days ago. Some ashes, which were thought to be dead, happened to catch alight in a box, and by night a hole had been burned through the floor. In another hour or two a blaze might have started which would have involved other tenants adjoining.

A number of counterfeit coins are in circulation in Matamata, and four have been discovered during the last few days by officials at the Bank of Australasia. The coins noticed was a half-crown, two florins and a threepenny piece. The coins are a very good imitation, though to an expert the colour is different, and the lettering is slightly thicker than on the genuine coin.

“ I am going to take a long shot and prophesy that in 10 years there will be only one county council in New Zealand, and that will be the Main Highways Board,” said the president, Mr. F. W. Johnston, at a meeting of the executive of the South Island Motor Union. Mr. Johnston later qualified this by saying that he meant one county council only so far as main roads were concerned, and that other roads and domestic matters would have to be controlled by the present county councils or road boards.

Mr. R. W. Cook, hon. secretary of the Putaruru District R.S.A., has received an acknowledgment of its invitation to its first annual reunion, to be held on Thursday next, from Major-General Sir George Richardson. In the course of his letter Sir George stated that as the years go by the sentimental regard of exservicemen for each other, created by common experiences and the sharing of common dangers, increased and he hoped they would set an example to a world which was so much in need of goodwill and cooperation. \

Recovered from the primeval forest uncovered when the waters at the Arapuni hydro-electric works were diverted below the falls, several pieces of totara timber are at present being made into a table by a Christchurch resident. This ancient forest, so it has been computed by geologists, lay buried beneath mud'and silt for untold ages, yet when the wood was cut from the tree stumps it was found to be in a state of excellent preservation. The wood being worked is as good as though cut from a tree in its prime.

When Mr. W. F. S. Goodwin, of Tirau, was returning to his home just after six o’clock on Friday evening one of his team of dogs was hit by a car and disappeared into the darkness. The dog, which Mr. •Goodwin valued very highly, did not return, and an exhaustive search of the vicinity was made till a late--hour that night and all the following day. Eventually the dog was , found to have returned to Mr. Holwell’s farm at Piarere, where it Had been working on the previous day, though the accident occurred several miles from there and close to Mr. Goodwin’s house. The car evidently struck the dog on the head and / stunned it, as a result of which it probably suffered from a temporary lapse of memory. The animal was not severely injured, and after two days it was none the worse for its adventure.

Farmers must have shelter. Messrs. Duncan and Davies, Ltd., the wellknown firm in New Plymouth, supply trees throughout the Dominion and abroad, are making a special offer in this issue. Their new cash terms are very liberal. Also they offer additional trees in lieu of freight on distant orders.*

USE SYKES’S DRENCH. Cleanses the blood. Prevents milk fever. 1/6 packet. 17/- dozen.