The Guardian TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1931. LOCAL AND GENERAL

Ellesmere Guardian, Volume LII, Issue 94, 24 November 1931, Page 4

The Guardian

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1931. LOCAL AND GENERAL

Printed at Leeston, Canterbury, Mew Zealand, on Tuesday and Friday afternoons.

Mr A. J. Inwood's gauge registered 25 points of rain on Friday and 45 points on Saturday, a total of 70 points, while Mr W. O. Rennie's gauge reading was 90 points.

The cake stall in connexion with St John's Sunday School will not be held next Friday, the Leeston stock sale having been held a week earlier than usual. At a meeting of the Dunsandel branch of the Farmers' Union next Thursday evening, Mr M. J. Scott and Dr. Weston, of Lincoln College, will give lectures, the former on live stock feeding and the latter on farm accounting. All farmers are invited. Supper will be served.

(The special preacher for the quarterly united Parochial Service in St. John's Church, Leeston, next Sunday, is the Rev. W. H. Orbell, who fot many years was vicar of Leeston. Ni doubt many old friends will be glad of the opportunity of renewing an old acquaintance.

Those interested in the formation of a tennis club at Irwell are asked to meet in the school next Saturday evening. The laying of the asphalt courts is proceeding at a satisfactory pace, and it is expected that they will be ready for opening towards the end of next month.

. A friendship formed about 35 years ago was renewed at Leeston today when the Prime Minister saw, amongst the crowd at the Town Hall, Constable R. Moriarty.- They used to play football together in Christchurch and both gained representative honours. After the meeting Mr Forbes and Constable Moriarty spent some time discussing the tough football battles of those earlier years and the players who took part in them.

The Ellesmere Brass Band visited Coe's Ford on Sunday afternoon, where it gave its first public performance since the contest last month, a concert of mixed selections. The sound of the music through the shaded willows and over the cooling stream provided the. last increment of pleasure needed to complete conditions for perfect relaxation. The number present was scarcely more than half the normal attendance for a fine Sunday in mid-summer, probably on account of the dampness caused through the previous, night's rain.

Sister Broughan, matron of the County Hospital, whose marriage to Mr Douglas McLachlan, is to take place shortly, will be accorded a social afternoon by the Ellesmere i branch of the Plunket Society next Friday at 2.30. All mothers in the district, as well as all members of the branch, are invited to be present, the members providing afternoon tea. Sister Broughan enjoys the esteem and respect of all with whom she has come into contact professionally and other--wise, and there is general regret at her impending departure from the district.

The Hon. D. Jones, Minister of Agriculture and patron of the Ellesmere Gun Club, has accepted an invitation to present the trophies at the Club's annual ball next Thursday evening at the Lakeside Hall. The function has always been a very popular one and from the demand for tickets and reports received by members generally there appears to be every prospect of next Thursday's ball being one of the most successful ever held by the Club. Mrs Lambie has arranged to provide an exceptionally good band, and the catering and other arrangements will be' on first-class lines.

Are you missing all the fun? Whitebait are coming in now in their thousands. Make up a net and try your luck. Three qualities at Chapman's— 2/9, 3/3 and 4/6 a yard.

Next Thursday evening the cantata "Day and Night," will be presented at the Southbridge Presbyterian Church, when a collection will be taken in aid of the organ fund.

The first wool sale of the season to be held at Christchurch will take place on Friday, December 11. At this sale the maximum aggregate quantities of wool that may be offered has been fixed by the Wool Committee at 25,000 bales.

The Hon. D. Jones, Official Coalition candidate for Mid-Canterbury, is to speak at Lakeside at seven o'clock on Friday evening and at Southbridge at half-past eight. On Saturday he will speak at Killinchy at seven o'clock and at Doyleston at halfpast eight. He will visit Glenroy and Hororata on Monday.

Mr John JL«ewis, a well known and ! greatly respected resident of SouthI bridge, had the misfortune to be { thrown from his bicycle when riding home from work one day last week, through the front wheel striking a large stone. He was rendered unconscious and was picked up shortly afterwards by Mr J. Stringer and conveyed to his home. Mr Lewis was able to get out of bed this morning, and it is hoped that he will soon recover.

The week-end cable message received by the N.Z. Meat Producers' Board from its London manager states that supplies of Home-killed lamb are now falling off, and that although consumption is satisfactory for the time of year, supplies of meat of all descriptions and game of all kinds are too heavy. In regard to wethers, the tone of the market is. slightly better, while the market for ewes is quiet and unchanged. There is not much business doing in beef, owing to low prices for Argentine chilled beef. Prices for N.Z. porker pigs are easier, there being large suyjdies of Home killed.

It seems quite impossible and yet it is perfectly true that pure iiiien tea towelling for the price of cotton can be bought, but good values are always exceptional at Chapman's. 12 yards of pure linen forfar for 9/9.

Ladies! Remember that entries for our art needlework competition close next Monday, November 30. Judging will take place by popular vote until the end of next week^—Rowan's Store, Southbridge. 1