The Matamata Record (Published Monday and Thursday) MONDAY, JUNE 1, 1936. Brief Mention

Matamata Record, Volume XIX, Issue 1735, 1 June 1936, Page 4

The Matamata Record (Published Monday and Thursday) MONDAY, JUNE 1, 1936. Brief Mention

There were 12 degrees of frost at Matamata this morning. During May there were 15 frosts, at Matamata, the heaviest-being v. 1,0.5 degrees on the 31st. v V EaethM, manager of the Matamata branch of the New Zealand Herd-testing Association, was ■tfpeifchfed ''upon in Waikato Hospital cn Monday last. He is progresssing as favourably .as, can be expected, but may have to undergo a- further operation. .... When acknowledging congratular of the Matamata. County Council for his re-election as chairman for the twenty-fourth year, Mr. J. W. Anderson said he did. not hold the record for New Zealand, as Mr. Walter Read,-chairman of the, Whakatane County Council, was, he believed, one year.ahead. • Have we really “turned the corner ” ? A newspaperman, chatting to a country acquaintance in the street; offered him a cigarette. “ Can’t ‘ smoke,”' came the somewhat doleful -reply. “ Throat -trouble? ” insinuated the member of the fourth estate sympathetically. “ No,” was the response, more: mournfully than ever, “ I’m a farmer.” It is understood that Mr. Selwyn Catchpole, a member of the permanr ent forces in Wellington, was chosen owing to his fine figure as the model for the New Zealand soldier in full war kit oh the Anzac stamp. Mr. Catchpole is a cousin of Mr. Milton Morrison, of Matamata, and a second cousin of Mr. Percy Catchpole, also of Matamata. .r J •: In a ballot among bank officers of the Auckland Provincee for two to attend a conference to be held in Wellington in June, Mr. Roy Egan, of J Auckland, was one of the successfur candidates. Mr. Egan was 'bom and educated in Matamata and commenced his service with the Bank of New Zealand here. The appointment is a distinction. The wonderfully mild weather of the past few weeks is not without its penalties. Ragwort (“National Enemey No. 1”) is showing in,some parts of the district the unusual spectacle of flowering in spite of the recent , frosts. To make matters worse, the exceptional (at this season) flush of feed is resulting in sheep leaving the menacing: weed alone. In passing, a farmer who, to his sorrow, has had a long experience of fighting ragwort, expressed the opinion that the best time, to treat the weed was in the winter, when frost came to the aid of sodium.