ASHBURTON.

Press, Volume LX, Issue 18014, 5 March 1924, Page 4

ASHBURTON.

PERSONAL. Richard J. Horrill, s pupil of the Technical School, has been informed that in the Examination of the City and Guilds of London Institute, held last May, he obtained a pass in carpentry and joinery, Grade I. School Sports. Saturday 'will be a red-letter day among the children of the Mid-Canter-bury public schools, when the third annual sports gathering will bo held on the Domain oval. There are over 2000 entries. There are nearly 100 events on the programme, and nearly thirty schools will take part at the meeting. The meeting is being run by tho teachers, and the arrangements are very complete. The sports will commence at 10 a.m., and a close day will be observed on the domain. Last year tho sports had to he abandoned on account of bad weather and all the preliminary expenses fell on the Association. Bowling. It has been decided to play the Waimate Club for the Bristol Cup to-mor-row at Ashburton. Following are the Ashbnrtcm rinks: —Hawkey, Hosken, Dunlop, Stewart (s); Dunn, Percy, Bendall, Moodie (s); Blackler, McEachen, Cookson, Milsom (s); Meddins, Bennington, Madden, McLachlan (s), Coote, Irwin, O'Brien, Craighead (s); Dixon, Campbell, Easterbrook, Morgan (s); Eraser, Buxton, Kissane, Galbraith (s); Capstick, McElrea, A. T. Smith, Higgins (s). Emergencies: Acton and Hynam. General News. Tho Ashburton Band will give a programme of music from the municipal rotunda this ovening. The Ashburton East Swimming Club will hold an evening meeting in the Hainpstead Memorial Baths to-morrow. The events to be contested will be 25 and 50yds club handicaps, an ogg-and-spoon race, and a diving competition. Tho fourth series of tho races for the Hunt and Hardy Shiolds will also be held. Two additional gas-rings for the uso of picnickers have been installed in the Domain. Ono is near the bowling green and the other noar the children's paddling pond. Under the supervision of Mr C. Branigan, rabbit inspector, the Ashburton County Council is to commence work this week on the destruction of rabbits in plantations in the Westerfield, Mayfield, and Cavendish districts. Cdrrots poisoned with strychnine are to be used.

Frequently warnings have been issued to the citizens of Ashburton through the widely-read Ashburton column of "The Press" to conserve the water supply and not to go over their allowance of 50 gallons. However, very little notice has been taken of warnings issued, so the borough inspector (Mr J. Richardson) has been given permission to prosecute two persons detected hosing after hours. Mail Notices. For northern pori3, at E. 15 p.m.; late fee letters 5.30 p.m.; guards van 6 p.m. For northern ports, at 2.45 p.m.; late fee letters 3 p.m.; guard's van 3.30 p.m. Mails for Australian States, South Africa and tho East, peT Marama, close at Ashburton on March sth, at 5.15 p.m. Mails for United Kingdom and Europd (specially addressed correspondence only), via Monto Video and Teneriffe, per Kia, Ora,, close at Ashburton on March 10th, at 5.15 p.m.