The Putaruru Press OFFICE: OXFORD PEACE. Telephone 28. Post Office Box 44. PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY. THURSDAY JANUARY 26, 1950. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Putaruru Press, Volume XXVII, Issue 1363, 26 January 1950, Page 4

The Putaruru Press OFFICE: OXFORD PEACE. Telephone 28. Post Office Box 44. PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY. THURSDAY JANUARY 26, 1950. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The following Putaruru District High School candidates passed the School Certificate examination held in November, 1949; M. P. Goodhue, M. E. McDonald and M. P. Weils. After their excellent efforts combating the fire at Marriott’s Nurseries on Wednesday, when the discomfort of the job was accentuated by intense summer heat, a member of the uublic suggested that members ol' the Putaruru Volunteer Fire Brigade should be called “Fountain’s Fire Fighters.” During the council meeting on Wednesday proceedings were interruted by a telephone call for the clerk, Mr V. L. Drummond. He returned to the meeting with the sad news that Mr J. M. Spear, Takapuna, Auckland, who wan a member of the board in its earlier years, had died suddenly. Mr H. L. Martin paid tribute to Mr Spear, and those present stood in silence as a mark of respect. A letter of sympathy was to be sent. ■ A three days’ course of instruction in the art of riding for representatives of pony clubs in South Auckland, began at the Claudelands show grounds on Tuesday, the instructor being Mr Duncan Holden, of Waipawa, chief examiner for the New Zealand Pony Clubs’ Association. Twelve riders from clubs at Hamilton, Morrinsville, Pukekohe, Auckland, Whakatane, Tauranga and Te Aroha are being instructed in the management and control of ponies. The Mayor, Mr H. L. Martin, led the borough councillors in removing his coat at the January meeting of the council on Wednesday. At the conclusion of the meeting only one male member retained his coat, while Cr. C. E. (Mrs) Tulloch, with feminine superiority, appeared to ignore the weather. Perhaps it was because of the fact that although women’s fashions are sometimes foolish at least they are in accord with the seasons, while the mere male swelters and does nothing about the reform of his dress and the increase of his comfort. The Commissioner of Taxes draws the attention of taxpayers to the notification appearing in to-day’s issue that the due date of payment of income tax id on Thursday, the 9th day of February, 1950. Five per cent, additional tax will accrue if the tax is not paid on or before 2nd March. The demands will be posted on or about 2nd Ferbuary. Demands should be presented with all payments, and if a demand has not been received the taxpayer should notify the superintendent of the office of the Land and Income Tax Department where his records are filed. The New Zealand Co-operative Pig Marketing Association Limited advise that their total collections of bobby calves for the past season from their 78 associated pools amounted to 399,175 calves, which is another record for the company. This figure, compared with the previous season’s collections from "the same pool areas, represents an increase of 4.8 per cent. The gross value of the product at works amounted to £504.800. Final payments to some 23,000 individual 000 l members throughout New Zealand will be completed on or before January 31, 1950. Visiting Mrs H. Townsend, Tuck and Watkins’ Mill, is her sister, Mrs H. Lowe, Hobart, Tasmania. Mrs Townsend and her family left Tasmania to settle in New Zealand 36 years ago and the sisters had not met one another since, until Saturday, January 14. Travelling by air, Mrs Lowe, who described the trip as most pleasant, left Cambridge aerodrome, Hobert, at 10.30 a.m. on the Friday and arrived in Auckland on Saturdays at 8.45 a.m. Mrs Lowe recognised Mrs Townsend, who said she was not so sure of her sister, and the happily reunited sisters continued on the relatively short last lap of the journey to Putaruru. Described as an unusual experience was the launch trip to join the flying boat at Rose Bay, Sydney, five minutes before midnight on the Friday. Mrs Lowe is here for an indefinite period and hopes to see much of New Zealand before returning to her family of three daughters and one son.