Brief Mention.

Matamata Record, Volume XVI, Issue 1445, 27 July 1933, Page 4

Brief Mention.

There were 9.5 degrees of frost this morning.

Mr. W. J. Lilly, of Matamata, has purchased Mr. Maddern’s farm at Overdale, Putaruru, and takes over that property next week. After cycling home on Tuesday hight Mr. D. B. Higgins slipped and bumped against a building and dislocated his shoulder. He is now progressing as satisfactorily as possible.

Three subsidies to the amount of £l5O on works totalling £760 have been approved by the Matamata certifying officer under the No. 10 building scheme. Five further applications are being considered.

Sneak thieves are stated to have been active again in the Te Poi district. On the night of the school dance one settler is reported to have lost a considerable quantity of benzine. - - '■

Mr. J. W. Anderson, chairman of the Matamata. County Council, left for Wellington on Monday night to attend executive and general meetings of the New Zealand Counties Association.

“ They gave me a long pedigree and invited me out oh the road,” said the inspector of the East Waikato Rabbit Board reporting at Tuesday’s meeting on certain calls made on farms during the month.

Statistics tabled at the July meeting of the East Waikato Rabbit Board meeting on Tuesday gave the information that the total area in the board’s territory was 147,744 acres 10 roods 4 perches; number of ratepayers, 449; number of rateable properties, 565; rating basis, acreage; capital value, £1,061,433; general rate, Id per acre.

At Tuesday’s meeting of the East Waikato Rabbit Board the treasurer reported that there was a credit balance in the bank of £2lO 2s lid, and a further £4B collected through the court to be paid in. All wages and accounts were paid to date. This year the following sums had been collected: Rates and arrears, £120; carbon bisulphide, £9O; strychnine, £26; rabbit destruction, £7B. A special inspection of drivers’ licenses was carried out in Matamata yesterday ,by six inspectors working in co-operation under the Matamata County Council. Several drivers were caught without licenses and a great number of others had left their licenses at home. The inspectors engaged were: Messrs. E. W. Jordan (Matamata County Council), Ford (Rotorua), F. Green (Cambridge), Metcalfe (Hamilton), G. L. Lilly and W. A. O. McEwan (Matamata). The first glider flights attempted at Morrinsville ended in misfortune on .Sunday afternoon. The glider, which has been constructed by Mr. F. Thomas, of Coronation road, who has had considerable flying and gliding experience in other districts, was tried out near the golf links but the wind was unfavourable. While a young man named Russell, from Auckland, was piloting the machine it fell from a height of about 15 I feet, damaging several of the stays. Mr. Russell suffered minor cuts.

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.*

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