TEMUKA.

Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 19149, 4 November 1927, Page 8

TEMUKA.

BAND CONTEST POSTPONED. A meeting of the guarantors in connexion with the proposed Band Contest, to be held in Teniuka at Christmas, time was held yesterday morning. Mr A. E. s .Smith presided over an attendance of about twenty. Owing to insufficient entries, caused by the Christchurch contest being held in February, it was decided to postpone the contest indefinitely. It was decided to vote the secretary £lO, in view of the amount of work he had put in.

Personal. Mr and Mrs E. E. D. Clarke and Miss p. Acre, a niece of Mrs Clarke, arrived in Teniuka on Thursday afternoon.

Salvation Army. $ A very pleasing little gathering to mark the occasion of the retirement from active service in the junior division of.the Army of the Young People's Sergeant-Major E. Butler, took place at the Salvation Army Hall 'on Wednesday evening. There was a splendid attendance of juveniles and Adjutant Watkin had with him on the platform the Mayor' (Mr T. E. Gunnion), the guests of the evening, Mr and Mrs E. Butler,.Mrs Tilbrook, Mrs Shepherd (successor to Mr Butler . as the new Young People's Sergeant-Major), and Mrs Watkin. An elder scholar just about to leave the ranks of the juniors and join the seniors—Wilbur Mclnnes—then read and presented a very beautifully executed address, done in pokerwork on leather, and taking the form of a bannerette. The address was the work of ,the treasurer of the Dunedin City Corps, Comrade Robert Hughsou.

Business Men Meet. Tbc monthly meeting of the Temuka Business Men's Association was held on Wednesday, there.being present: Messrs A. E. Smith (president), A. D. Cameron, H. B. Strange, J. ; B. Davis, G. H. Clements, E. Blackmore, S. Goddard, W. 1\ Evans, and the secretary (Mr B. Hughes).

Mr Evans enquired if there was anything to report regarding the request to have a counter delivery between 7 and 8 o'clock each Thursday evening. The president said that this was held up pending a reply regarding the telegraphic hours.

Mr Strange thought that the .telephone operator ought to be'able to receive telegrams between 7 and 8 p.m. Mr Blaekmore thought the suggestion impracticable. The secretary said that it was possible at present to have, a' telegram telephoned to Timaru for transmission, on the payment of one shilling opening fee.

Mr Evans said that I;here was no real need for opening the office for telegraphic business between the hours of 7 and 8 p.m., but he thought that it was imperative that there should be a counter delivery of correspondence for one hour on Thursday and Saturday evenings.

On the motion of Mr Strange, the letter was received, and it was agreed to make application to the Postmaster with regard to Mr Evans' suggestion.