Brief Mention.

Matamata Record, Volume XVI, Issue 1444, 24 July 1933, Page 4

Brief Mention.

Mr. W. D. L. MacDonald, inspector of stock, Matamata, has been appointed Government representative on the Kiwitahi Rabbit Board.

“ It has been a mild winter,” was the remark made to a Morrinsville farmer this week. “ Winter! We have not had any real winter weather yet,” was his reply.—Morrinsville Star.

A young man named John Henry Mahood, a brother of Mr. E. Mahood, of Matamata, was admitted to the Waikato Hospital on Saturday night suffering from concussion sustained through being knocked down in Cambridge by a motor cycle.

Amongst the Justices of the Peace recently gazetted are the following names of interest to Matamata residents: Messrs. J. Pohlen (Matamata), Phil Hawke (Hinuera), Charles Gordon Lucas (Whakatane) and Marmaduke St. John Paxton (Putaruru).

Last week Mr. J. Pohlen, councillor for Matamata riding, in company with the engineer, Mr. M. E. Fitzgerald, inspected the hill and sharp bend in the road just past the Mangawhero stream bridge on the Matamata-Tauranga highway with a view to early improvements. It is proposed to cut through the hill on Mr. Mason’s property, and the survey pegs have already been put. in. The work will be gone on with' as soon as arrangements have been completed with the Main Highways Board.

Apparently New Zealand is not alone in its desire to get rid of the ragwort pest. The following is taken from an Australian paper : “ Ragwort still raises its yellow-flowered head and takes toll of cattle, despite scientific efforts to exterminate it. Attempts in South Gippsland with a small red-and-black moth, which was supposed to lay its eggs on the leaves of the weed, leaving the hatched caterpillars to destroy the plant, failed. There’s money in it for the man who can produce a real exterminator.”

A healthy herd is your greatest asset. Inoculate against Mammitis with Hamilton Vaccine.

Farmers and others requiring shelter should read the advertisement of the well-known New Plymouth nurserymen, Messrs. Duncan and Davies Ltd., who are offering in this issue a wonderful selection of guaranteed trees. Their nursery stock is all grown on high land exposed to severe winds off Mount Eginont. Therefore they are very hardy.* A screeching parrot and no appeal, The rasping squeal of a rusty wheel, A leaking tap and a slamming door— These are afflictions we all abhor. But a hacking cough is worse than these — Hearers and sufferers know no ease Till both a restful relief assure With soothing Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure. (16)