LAWRENCE NOTES

Evening Star, Issue 23324, 21 July 1939, Page 15

LAWRENCE NOTES

POLICE COURT. At the Magistrate’s Court, Lawrence, on Monday, before J. il. Dixon, Esq., SAL, Robert Allen (Edievale) was charged with driving a motor lorry on the Duu-edin-CToimvoll highway at a speed exceeding -5 m.p.h.—Pined £1 10s, costs 12s. Amlrcngh Thomas Wilson (Kao’s Junction) was charged with allowing cattle to wander on the Dunedin-Crom-well highway.—Fined 15s, costs 12s, Judgment for the plaintiffs, with costs, was given in the following undefended cases;— E. H. Jones (Mr Moore) v. Thomas Clair, £10; Tuapeka Motors Ltd. v. William Brown, £lO 3s 9d. LAWRENCE HOCKEY CLUB. The Lawrence Town Hal! was attractively decorated in a wide range of colours and with crossed hockey sticks tied with the club’s colours at intervals round the walls for the Hockey Club’s annual ball. Prizes for best fancy drosses wore awarded to Mr and Mrs W. G. Suters, as Darby and Joan; Mrs P, Fahey and Mrs G. Fahey, a negro couple; Miss E. Goodlet, Eastern lady; Mr G, Guthrie, Eastern gentleman: Miss W. Hely, Queen of Hearts; Mr G. Guthrie, cowboy; Mrs Middleton. as Snowwhite and her five dwarfs —Mrs Bell (Happy), Mrs Anderson (Doc.), Mrs Thompson (Dopey), Miss B. Thompson (Sneezy), and Miss M. M'Ewan (Bashful). Miss G. Gunn and Miss M. Suters, as two little girls in blue, were awarded the prize in the back-to-childhood section. PERSONAL. The Rev. F, L. Irwin, of the Riverton Parish, has been appointed to the Tuapeka-Teviot parish to succeed the Rev. J. A. G. Simpson, who has been appointed to the Holy Trinity Church at Port Chalmers. GENERAL. The Tapanui basketball and football teams visited Lawrence on Saturday to play their annual games with the Lawrence D.H. School teams. Basketball was played at the school and provided an evenly-contested game, * Lawrence running out winners, 13-12. Of the 13 points scored by the local team, Gladys Hall scored 10, Olivo' M'Corkindale 2, and Alicia Hore 1. The football game was also evenly contested, the local boys winning by 14-11. At a meeting of the managers of tbo Lawrence Presbyterian Church it was decided to celebrate the seventy-fifth anniversary of tbo church in October with suitable functions, and a small committee, consisting of Rev. F. W. Winton, Messrs T. H. Olark (secretary), F. G. Gray, and D. Davidson, was set up to make preliminary arrangements. Quail shooting is proving very popular at present amongst visiting sportsmen to Roxburgh district. During the week several parties tried their luck, though weather conditions were not very satisfactory. Four Dunedin men —Messrs Begg, Oliver, Gilchrist, and Lindsay—secured good bags, including two cliukor. Another party from Matanra secured 30 birds.

At the monthly meeting of the Teviot Electric Power Board accounts amounting to £4ll 9s 5d were passed for payment. Receipts for month were £Bl9 is 4d, made up of: Power £671 15s, showroom £124 1.5 s 7d, cash sales £l3 8s 3d, sundries £9 2s 6d. Application is being made to raise a loan for the purpose of erecting ■ a workman’s residence in the borough of Roxborough, for which a building site has already been purchased.