CHAUTAUQUA.

Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 3938, 21 February 1920, Page 2

CHAUTAUQUA.

That Chautauqua has laifly established itself in tins Dominions is proved by the tact that 99 per cent of the town'- where Chautauqua ha-, been held this, reason have booked up again for next year. The Chautauqua movement pioniofos social eii-t.-i'tauiineiit and popular education throughout the Dominion. Chautauqua music is M tiie very best, and iUiocttire- are uplifting and soul-stir-I'tng, he'ttig delivered by broad-minded men and women ot svorld-sside expert. '-H.-I-, Local citizen- who have boon privileged to hear Chautauqua. this season are ui.iainm"iis vi advising then friends not to mi-s the Feilding, es-sioii-, ou March 8 to IM

The siatl' oi Messrs McGrner, Thomson and Co. is holding its annual outing fo-dnv at Scott's Ferry. A cable message to the London papers states, that the New York Presbyterian Church has begun a movement tor the ss mid-abolition Ot" the cigarette. '■li the price of living dues not go down, come ol »s mothers svill lie in Sunnyside. soon," uus the en-nog plaint in a letter received by llm iMiisoi- of Chnstfchureh coneeniMg sugar supyiies. "in private life the Turk may j« different, but when it comes to dealing with Armenians, Im is a blood-; thirsty ruffian," said the Bishop ot London. ••|'he Iree/.ing st-'ies are crowded ami our paddocks are full of tat stock," was the burden of a loud complaint by Mi C, K. Wilson at th" Auckland Provincial Executive oi the Fannein' Union. Twenty-nine miners, accompanied by IG svives and 12 children, have just arrived in Nesv Zealand for Westport. They svill considerably relieve the shortage of miners in Nesv Zealand, and should prove a valuable help in the coal-mining industry. RMS. Mnana'B departure from Wellington from San Francisco via ports has been postponed from today until Monday afternoon. A medical man, svho is also a gardener, says that orchardists handling .stone fruit with ;--iy sign of ripe rot or bruivn spot should be careful, for it is highly poisonous l . What is a ram hogget. This vexed question was freely discussed round the sheep pens at the Masterton Shosv, svhen a protest, was threatened at the prtxe in Ihe rain hogget class being awarded to a throe-shear-ling ram. "The Government, is to blame tor the yusition" said an Auckland authority svho knosvs the requirements ol the farmer from seed-time to.hiirvcst, and in between w'tiiles. He vvas speaking ot the shortage ol fertilisers. Said General Bird wood in Sydney: The V.M.C.A. did a great deal in the wat\ and if can do as much, and more, nosy" that the war is over. It, can do mote than timst people in keeping our hoys together on the road to high service. If the V.M.C.A. can continue I lie work if, did in the war it will win the (hanks of everyone." As an advocate, for cheaper meat in England, the High Commissioner (Sir Thomas Mackenzie) flatly condemned on behalf of the New Zealand people "svhat they regard as a policy ot subsidising the American ■ and British farmer, and are anxious that their produce should be sold on the basis of its import, cost." _ Sir 'I hoinas said in London that- it is "the desire of the New Zeahinders to give the benefit- of loss- prices to the consuming public in Great Brit.iin," and hoMuggesA Hie reduction of current priors for Nesv Zealand meat. A point for good housesvives. AI , svavs use SHARLAND'R Baking Powder. Costs least" gees farLhiwt ; gives best results.

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