Cromwell Argus AND NORTHERN GOLDFIELD GAZETTE Cromwell, Monday, Feb. 13, 1933

Cromwell Argus, Volume LXIII, Issue 3250, 13 February 1933, Page 4

Cromwell Argus AND NORTHERN GOLDFIELD GAZETTE Cromwell, Monday, Feb. 13, 1933

In next Saturday’s fixtures Car drona and Luggate meet at Lug-gate, and Wanakn go to Hawea. Lowburn iias the bye and will probably havei a match with an Ardgour team, at Lowburn. The Lnitcd Churches are staging a t great Show at Bannockburn on Saturday. Open lor visitors morning and evening. Mr Peter N. Dick. 5.D.0.N.Z., oA' the well-known firm of Peter Dick, U atchmakers, Jewellers, and Ophthalmic Opticians, will visit Central Otago’ on dates announced in an advertisement elsewhere in this issue. Mr Dick will be at the Commercial Hotel Cromwell, on 17th and ißtb February. At the Alexandra Horticultural Show 011 Saturday the following local successes are advised:—Rev. Teague, three firsts with Gladiolus; J. R. Webb and Sons, first with Nectarines, first with Peaches (yellow freestone), two firsts with Tomatoes, and a thiifd with Bon Cretien Pears. General interest is now centred in the forthcoming race-meeting of the Cromwell Jockey Club, to be held on Friday and Saturday, March 10th and nth. .Nominations are due on Thursday, 23rd February, and already the dub lias promises of very general support. Given good fields the club suould certainly have a must successful fixture. A meeting was beiTT*in Cromwell on 1' riday evening to consider an aero club, Flight-lieutenant Olson and Mr Umbers, secretary of the Otago Aero Club being present. Jt was decided to form a club, Mr J. R. Munrc being yleMod piesident and Mr J. 1. 15 i I ton, s-i.ttary. It was staled that five pupils for training in aviation had :n?en alniulv enrolled. \\ e have to acknowledge receipt of a copy of Stone’s Directory for 19330 AH the features which have made tjhisl iJirectory so valuable are fully maintained and it is fully revised and up-to‘ date. Apart from the town and country directory, it contains a budget of 1 useful anil statistical information for the man in the office and on the and for that reason should command a ready sale.

Tansy: See you at the Bannock* "burn Sliow on Saturday, Eiili* Sweet Willigip;. Beteher Life*

At Cromwell, on Saturday, th«! local tennis team was defeated by Alexandra by 12 sets to four. The monthly meting of the Vincent Hospital Board will be held at Cromwell Hospital on Wednesday next, at 2 p.m. In the Centre Shield bowling match at Cromwell on Saturday, Cromwell defeated Clyde in a three-rink game by 6q points to 39. The privileges in connection with the Cromwell Jockey Club’s annual racemeetiug on March 10th and nth, will be sold by auction in the Council Chambers on Friday next at 3 p.m. Aj very successful swimming carnival was held at the Cromwell baths ojn Saturday afternoon, but a full repdTt, along with other matter, is unavoidably held over. Mr 0. L. Ferens, secretary of the Dunedin Returned Soldiers’ Association, will address a meeting of all interested in the Poppy Day Campaign and the work of the association, to be held 111 the Council Chambers, Cromj well, on Saturday evening next, at 1 8 o'clock. The ‘‘Jolly” Cup has again changed hands, and is in the possession pf Alexandra. A rink from that club Reed, Scott, Simcoe, and Morrell (s), travelled to Waimka fast Monday and defeated the holders by 26 points to 16. After the first two heads the Alexandra rink established a lead and iield it throughout. The Lowburn-Cardrona association cricket fixture, played at Luggate on Saturday, produced an exciting finish and finally ended in a draw, each side scoring 82 runs. Principal scorers were: —For Cardrona, A. Galvin 21, J. Scurr 15; for Lowburn, F. Par* fridge sen., 22, R. Varcoe j 6, and F.t Partridge juu., 15. Wanaka defeated Luggate by 120 runs to 68. The committee of the Cromwell Jockey Club met on Saturday evening to consider a suggestion from two well-known Dunedin owners to raise the stakes for one race at the forthcoming meeting to ,£IOO, and offered something in the nature of a guarantee to the club in the event of this befng agreed to. The committee favored the suggestion and decided to submit it to a general meeting on Tuesday evening. A Keen Contest! The Cooking class at the Bannockburn Show. 'Who. will win the points prize ?