THE HERALD WEDNESDAY, JUNE 12, 1929.

Alexandra Herald and Central Otago Gazette, Issue 1690, 12 June 1929, Page 5

THE HERALD WEDNESDAY, JUNE 12, 1929.

- The shoot ioT tbe Bcakm Shield will take place at Omakau to-day. This is the second edition of this paper. The first edition contained Vincent football, hockey and golf news. The report of the Borough Council has 4m had to be pat aside for the next issue. The annual meeting of the local branch of the Farmers' Union will be held on Monday evening.

Attention is drawn to the Railways Department advertisement appearing in this issue giving particulars of timetable alterations on and after Sunday, Jane 23.

On the eve of her departure from Alexandra iliss M'Arthur was entertained at Miss Hull's by a few of her friends and presented with a fountain pen, suitably inscribed.

The question of smoking in the pictures was brought up at the Council meeting the other night. Cr Hull said that the first offender that he caught would be dealt with severely. A notice that no smoking is permitted in the hall appears on the wall. The names of two of the principal offenders' were handed to Cr Hull. Another matter which received prominence was the prevalence of liquor at dances held in the Tows Hall. The Council are determined to put a stop to this practice. A ease, which created a good deal of Interest in Clyde was heard at the sitting of the Magistrate's Court on Tuesday of last week. The case was that in which William Wilmot Wheatland, licensee of the Hartley Arms Hotel, Clyde, Was. before the magistrate on two ehazges, one being obstructing the police and-the other with aiding and abetting Tom Marshall to be on licensed premises after hours. The "Dunstan Times" did not report this ease. We have a full account of the proceedings as'far as the adjournment to Dunedin, end win publish this in our next issue.

At Che Borough Council meeting on Monday night Cr Burgess brought up a very important matter and one that required immediate attention. He asked that the Donstan Hospital, at Clyde, be connected up with the Alexandra Exchange, instead of at present being a toll call. The position was made quite clear and the inconvenience of the present state of affairs emphasised by several councillors. The town clerk was instmeted to write the Vincent Hospital Board asking that this be done.