Local and General

Ellesmere Guardian, Volume 65, Issue 99, 17 December 1943, Page 3

Local and General

The Guardian, will be published on Thursday of next week instead of on Friday, to enable the country deliveries to be made-,on Friday morning.

Day's Bus Service timetable for the holidays is advertised today.

Leeston Public Library will be open for subscribers%.qn Thursday of next week ,at 2 p.m. and at 7 p.m. It will be closed over the Christmas and" New Year holidays, and will re-open on Friday, , January 7. at 7 p.m.

A New South Wales dairy farmer contended that to strip dairy cows after machine milking was a waste of time and labour. At one time he believed there Was some connexion between non-stripping and mammitis, but after many arguments on the point with his son, a student of Hawkesbury College, he agreed to make a test. It had been entirely satisfactory. No stripping had, been done for two years. Since then he had. had no cases of mammitis, although the disease caused him a good deal of trouble in the 'handmilking days when every cow was stripped out. ' ~

At the end of the school year 17 children of the Leeston Consolidated School were presented with primary school certificates. These are awarded after a successful year's work in Form 11, and entitle the holders to free secondary school education up to 19 years of age, subject to satisfactory work and diligence. The successful pupils are: Ivie Gilbert, Bevan Green, George Hood, Stanley Main, Alister McMillan, Crosbie McPherson, lan Tweedie, Ngaire Bryce, Shirley Chappell, Jean Donald, Noeline Gilbert, Norma Henderson, Hazel Hight, Nola 'Hoskin, Shirley Kendall, Dorothy Ward, Marie Welsh.

A combined meeting of the Methodist Missionary Auxiliary and the Ladies' Guild was held at the residence iof Mr and Mrs P. B. Birkett, Leeston. Mrs T. W. Brooks, president of the Auxiliary, presided over a good attendance of members. The meeting opened "with- a short devotional service appropriate to the Christmas season. Letters from Mrs I. Taylor, president of the- M.W.M.U. and from Mrs B. A. Flavell, secretary, were read by Mrs Brooks, and one from Mrs M. E. Early, treasurer of the Women's Work in England, by Miss Hight. Mrs L. Doak read a lett'r from Sister Eleanor Dobby, giving texts and thoughts which had helped her during her recent severe illness. It was good to listen to the letters read, and ..to realise that all were linked together in a universal church. One of the good things these evil days were giving was a growing sense of oneness with all who loved and served the Lord wherever they might be. The meeting closed with the Benediction, after which a pleasant social hour was spent.