NORTH CANTERBURY

Press, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22135, 3 July 1937, Page 21

NORTH CANTERBURY

WOMEN'S GOLF TOURNEY

F IBST TO !»•' "ELD AT KAMiIORA

mPn \ foil' tournament, the first A*' Wat Rans-'iora has been ar- «" Mir July 20. A meeting of «• « nged imittce "f «»<> Rangiora <*hc c ?f g„ lf club th-.-:dL-d to hold a W fday SrU "t the; end of the on e-ciay l ies wi]l i;r ,, L , a bly be lirnm0 4 m avoid coiiKeslion on the course, i;ed to <> v "™ ■ u,,i,.. uhich is of nint- h.jl. - Motor-Vehifle Resist rations About 1100 motur-vJiicl.-s have been Ab a -it the Rangiora post office mistered at ;c himdred fiftv wVre restored last month, a " . nf them within the first few mOS L The rate (if registration com*«s favourably with that of last year. p Personal at, W D M. Jamieson. of the Rangi- , nost office staff, left yesterday to °nnd his annual leave in the North Sd Mr I. D. Delaney has re--1 Li from annual leave. 7r and Mr" H- G. Parish will leave Hangiora during the week-end. on a visit to Picton. Unemployment a further increase in the number „f relief workers in the Rangiora district receiving sustenance payments is hn«m in the unemployment allocator next week. Following is the .Cation, this week's figures being Sin parenthesis-Sustenance 113 04. No. 5 scheme 37 (35). Ten men have registered as unemployed this week, compared with 11 last week.

MEMORIAL TO DR. RAMSAY

PUBLIC FUND TO BE STARTED AT KAIAPOI

The Mayor (the Be v. W. H. A. virlcerv) presided at a meeting held in the Kaiapoi Borough Council Chambers on Thursday evening, when it was decided to open a public subscription list to provide a suitable memorial to Dr. Maxwell Ramsay. Representatives were present from the Kaiapoi Borough Council, Kaiapoi Returned Soldiers' Association. Tuahiwi Maoris, Kaiapoi Working Menls Club, Kaiapoi branch of the Labour Party. Kaiapoi Rugby Football Club, and Kaiapoi Golf Club. The following committee was set up:-The Mayor. Messrs J. H. Mealings, F. Richards, R. Bartley, W. H. Stark, G. Hirst, F. Neale, B. Leaver, J W. Karaitiana, F. G. Kirkpatrick, and B. F- Joyce (secretary).

Borough Rates The borough rates to be considered at a special meeting of the Kaiapoi Borough Council on Tuesday next show an increase of more than Jd in the £, as compared with the previous year, provision having been made in the estimates expenditure for £3OO, the borough's portion of the sealing of the Kaiapoi-Tuahiwi main highway. The additional hospital levy also necessitates a small increase or about l-5d in the £.

JJothers' Union

An address on the life story of a high caste Chinese -woman was given by Mrs A. C. Purchas ißangiora) at the monthly meeting of the Kaiapoi branch of the Mothers' Union, held in st» Bartholomew's scVvoolxoom on. Thursday artemoon. Hostesses for the afternoon mre Mesdames H. G. trumv J. A. Mealings. L. Burgess, J. O'Connor, and F. R. Hyde. Beiore the meeting a short service was conducted by Mrs T. M. Curnow, the enrolling member.

ELLESMERE SHOW

MEETING OF ASSOCIATION

Mr H. G. Chamberlain, president, was in the chair at a meeting of the Keneral committee of the Eilesmere Agricultural and Pastoral Association ne*d at Leeston. Sympathy was extended to the relatives or Mr W. A. Gray and also to Mr J. Doyle (Tai Tapu) in the deatn oi his sister.

An offa* irom Burke's, Ltd., to undertake the catering at the show for a Period of five years, at £22 10s a year, was accepted. The resignation of Mr R. Bruce was accepted with regret. Mr H. T. Stephens was elected a We member and Messrs W. E. MoorMr% ( ' R ' Barnelt annual members. *|r J. Simpson was congratulated upon in success in winning the Bledisloe raedal with his pigs. It was decided °.»ve a cup valued at £3 3s to tho uncoin Ploughing Match Association. ,'f schedule for the annual show, "be held on October 21. was revised.

A, Proposal that a building to house '« women's cloak-room and Plunket ct TO S m sh< >uld be built at the Show "round, was discussed and Messrs H. P. V. Bailey, G. W. Dh™ 1 "* 1 "*- B. T. McMillan. T. A. Ste- ™«». and A. J. Inwood were ap™n»d to consider this and other W^J md re P° rt to the next meet- "* oi the general committee.

Farewell to Teacher IhTnisv Bruce - wno nas retired from tan C IU ? n of headmaster of DoylesS h and from the teaching proWto „iS ■L a lon S Period of service. a tt aft„" il Mrs Bruce, entertained at oi thf n SJ? n g ath ering by the teachers SDeaW. '•"psmere district. Several C^i£ aid uH bu J? s to the Peasant * hlch M r Bruce had co»theri2L m the district school sports andtnu? '• a . nd other united efforts, in sch™?i e taken by Mrs Bruce MrTWlevities. For the teachers sentStfon Cartwrl Kht made a pre'

» School Games °l3nml O L.k le , match es played in the PootSn. r °° ls competitions are:— Si te^ont° n 22 ' Irwell - Blook - L^ketbaU—Brookside 13, Doyleston?U^defe ent u l2: , Southbridge 4, Ul Se3 Uluichy 1% ' Leeston 14.

* Miniature Rifles fired h^? res in the weekly matches atur e Din in the Ellesmere Mini-*ere:-T e Association's competitions SedatS^ l^ 0 " 54 °- Killinchy 530;

527 S^?,t~^ edgemere - L akeside No. 2 533. TO No - ! 540. Southbridge No. 1

VITAL STATISTICS

fri A »k tlCs for the Kaikoura dis- *« Death * i uarte r ending June 30 • 6. births 13, marriages 1.