MANAWATU

Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 50, 27 August 1924, Page 6

MANAWATU

(BI ISLEGEiPH.—SPECIAL 10 THK POST.) ■ ' ■'-1 PALMEKSTON N., This Day. ' ; ; -The annual .examinations' for tear : chers' D and O. certificates are being i held in the Central School -under the ■ supervision of . Sir. R.. ; B. Byder,: in- , i spectdr of schools. In some of the sccilion's there are CO candidates for. ex-- "; aininalion. ' • . ■■' . ; ~:

,' On Saturday evening>:a roll of carpet', curtains, etc., were taken from premises in the-Square,-in which they'had b'eeu temporarily left.v ■ The owner and his wife, when returning to town, actually passed-. the^ thief -with the; buridle on' his shoulder, the {ormer remarking to ..his wife,- "Someone else- is furnishjng besides ourselves."' The loss amounts to over. £30. ' /

After a tour in. Russia and SfortberS Europe, a tribe of 30 or 40 Indians from. the Punjab have arrived in England. 'Tho itribe consists of six families, and each, aim ;hes two or three wives. Strings of. gold •coins,, including 20 ;dollarJ pieces and Kiiasian and German' coins, hang from tho women's ears, and the party"has a lot of loose gold money with it. Even the-chil-dren Kayo plenty of: money, anJ boys of four years smoke cigarettes. rv-

A _ notice of. the first annual general meeting of -tho Dominion- Co-op. Insurnncp- Society, to be held at. 7.30 p.m. on Friday. 291K-inst.. will be • found in our advertising coliunni.