The Putaruru Press PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY OFFICE: OXFORD PLACE. Telephone 28. Post Office Box 44. THURSDAY, AUGUST 1, 1946. LOCAL AND GENERAL

Putaruru Press, Volume XX, Issue 1193, 1 August 1946, Page 4

The Putaruru Press PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY OFFICE: OXFORD PLACE. Telephone 28. Post Office Box 44. THURSDAY, AUGUST 1, 1946. LOCAL AND GENERAL

At a meeting of the committee set up from the Putaruru football clubs and the Basketball Club, held on Friday evening, Miss Daphne Warrander was elected to stand as 'their candidate in the proposed queen carnivalThe Putaruru Fire Brigade received a call at 10-20 o'clock on Sunday morning when a tire broke out in a hut situated on Mr- H. Martin’s section in Marchant Street and occupied by Mr. C. -.Rudd. The brigade extinguished the tire shortly after their arrival, but the hut was almost totally destroyed. Nearly every home in New Zealand has a radio. Returns tabled in the House of Representatives recently show that 393,054 licenses were current at March 31 this year, as against 379,242 in 1945. The stated percentage of households with licenced sets was 93-2. The tragic death of Mrs. R. Gasson and her six .children at Taumangi on Sunday was the reason for a radio telephone call received by the Putaruru police on Monday from the Sydney Morning Post. Full particulars in connection with the tragedy were asked for. E. A. Clarke, senior lecturer An sheep and wool at Massey Agricultural College, J. E. Duncan, wool supervisor, Department of Agriculture, and Dr. P. R- McMahon, wool metrologist, Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, have left New Zealand for a six weeks tour of the sheep and wool research centres of Australia on behalf of the New Zealand Wool Board-