Local and General

Ellesmere Guardian, Volume LXII, Issue 18, 7 March 1941, Page 3

Local and General

Tomorrow evening Privates W. Smellie and W. Campbell are to be the guests of the Ellesmere Gun Club at a social evening in the club rooms, when presentations will

be made

Mrs A. J. Inwood, "Waikewai," Soufchbridge, reports that during February, rain fell on six days, for a total of 1.15 inches compared with 1.06 for the same month in the previous year. For the two months of the current year the fall is 2.89 in., as compared with 5.10 in. in the same period in 1940.

On Friday evening of next week, March 14, the annual meeting of the Ellesmere Methodist Chrysanthemum Society will be held at Wesley Hall, Leeston. All show workers and others interested are urged to attend as important business connected with this year's show, will be considered.

Messrs Wynn Williams, Brown & Gresson, barristers and solicitors, are inviting tenders for the purchase of the fine farm at Leeston in the estate of the late Mr T. Prosser. It comprises 97 acres and is some of the richest land in the Ellesmere district. Tenders for the property as a whote or in two lots will be considered and will close on March 31.

As Captain and Mrs D. Adams and most of the members of the corps will be attending the Army congress in Christchurch, there will be no meetings at the Leeston Salvation Army Hall on Sunday.

Due to the hot dry season, the growth of weed in the Halswell river, the canal and other drains under the control of the Ellesmere Lands Drainaage Boax-d, recently had been abnormal, necessitating extra cutting. A certain amount of trouble was also being given by the extraordinary quantity of mud in the river. Mud bars were showing in many places along the course of the stream and these were affecting the flow of the water and making cleaning work more difficult.

A land auction of considerable importance is to be held at Tattersail's, Christchurch, on Saturday, March 22, at 10.30 a.m., when Messrs H. Matson and Co., and Dalgety and Co., Ltd., in conjunction, will offer, under instructions from the Public Trustee and Mrs Barnett, the freehold and leasehold land at Southbridge in the estate of the late Mr Leonard R. Barnett, particulars of which are advertised today. The properties will first be submitted as a whole and if a sale is not made they will then be offered in sections in the order given. The land includes the freehold and leasehold known as Fereday's Island, a valuable sheep run between two streams of the Rakaia river.

Harvest Thanksgiving Day will be observed ' at the Southbridge Presbyterian Church on Sunday, when special services will be held both morning and evening. The preacher in the morning will be Rev. L. G. B. Whitehead, and in the evening, Mr A. J. McEldowney, superintendent of Presbyterian Social Service. Appropriate music will be sung by the choir at both services. At the Dunsandel Presbyterian Church Anniversary Day will be celebrated. There will be services both morning and evening. The preacher in the morning will be Rev. J. Robertson, 8.A., of Cashmere, and in the evening Mr Whitehead will conduct the service. Special music will be provided by the choir.