LOOKING BACK

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 55, Issue 278, 6 September 1935, Page 4

LOOKING BACK

FIFTY YEARS SYNE. (From the “Guardian,” Sept. 6, 1885.) Local Invention Messrs D. Thomas, C. Braddell and C. Ray, of this town, have made application for a. patent for an invention for street watering and fire extinguishing purposes. Choral Society Wound Up.—There was such an indifferent attendance at the Choral Society last night that a committee meeting was held and it was unanimously resolved to wind the society up. Headmaster’s Application.—Mr Hector Dempsey, late of the Ashburton Borough School, has made an application tor the appointment of headmaster of the Central School, New Plymouth. His name is one of three forwarded by the Education Board to the School Committee for approval. Over 46 applications for the position were received, most of them coming from the South Island. TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO. (From the “Guardian,” Sept. 6, 1910.) Stiff Scouting.—A stiff bit of Scout work is being arranged for the Ashburton company, which is to start on Wednesday for . a three days’ march to Christchurch. There the hoys will enter camp for four days’ rest and will then make the return tramp. The company proposes .to march fully equipped and Will carry all its baggage on four bicycles lashed together to form a baggage waggon. It is intended: to make the first day’s camp at Rakaia. Japanese Beauty.—A gleam of Japanese beauty is to be seen inside the gates at the Domain, where a flowering plum has shaken out its white bells and is at the present moment a, mass of pink-tinged snowiness. Nothing in the horticultural world can lay claim to a more perfect and etheria 1* beauty than some of these flowering fruitless trees of Japan. To anyone who has seen the cherry blossom at its best even in New Zealand it seems no wonder that lovers of loveliness should make a; special pilgrimage to the Far East and back “just to see the cherries bloom,” as one American gentleman did from Wellington.