LOCAL AND GENERAL

Ellesmere Guardian, Volume XLVI, Issue 3233, 3 July 1928, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

The usual fortnightly euchre and dance social will be held in Leeston Catholic Hall to-night. - '

Mr J. Boag calls tenders to-day for tree felling and gorse cutting and grubbing. A copy of the specifications may be seen at the Guardian office.

The Railway Department advertises in this issue timetable alterations be.tween Christchurch and Springfield operating from Monday, 9th July.

The Southbridge Hockey Club will hold its annual dance on Thursday, September 13. /A concert is to be given by the members of the Club on Frilay, August 10. x

Owing to the calls that are being made upon, his time by his t extensive farming interests in this and other districts, Mr" G. W. R.'OsTsorne has decided'to dispose of his threshing plants, and a sale will be held in October. In the meantime an illustrated catalogue is being prepared for distribution.

There will be revelry by night when the Leeston Hockey Club holds its second dance in the Parish Hall to-mor-row. The first social was well supported and there is every prospect that the coming one will be equally so. The programme will include novelty dances and a lucky spot and confetti waltz.

Mr A. J. Inwood reports that the rainfall for June was 3.84 inches, the heaviest fall for any one month since August, 1925. For the same inpnth of last year it was 3.18 inches. The total rainfall for the half year ending June 30, was 11.G6 inches, and for the corres- !■ peniliiig'period last year, 8.17 inches.

At the usual weekly meeting of the ■ Lcestoii W.E.A. circle in. the Town Board room this evening the subject will be Haydn and Mozart, two of the great musicians of the 18th century. "lecture will be illustrated by gramgphone records of some of the works of these masters. Non-members

who may be interested are invited to attend.

cordially

Evidence-of ihc ..remarkable progress made in regard to telephone extensions during the last few years is to "be found in the fact that along High street, Leeston, a new underground cable is being laid which is about double the capacity of the one put down a few years ago.- The cable will be run as far as the mill bridge corner in one direction and the railway crossing towards Doyleston in the other. This will enable the Department to remove the multiplicity of overhead lines. There are now 254. subscribers on the Leeston Exchange list, with five others waiting to be connected and two party lines in contemplation.