KUMARA NOTES

Greymouth Evening Star, 23 March 1929, Page 8

KUMARA NOTES

(Our Own Correspondent.)

The picture entertainment tendered

to the Kumara Public School in aid of the Library Fund was well attended, and the proceeds should prove a welcome addition to the amount necessary to enable the Committee to provide a new set of books for the children. During the evening, Mr Burrell, chairman of the committee, returned thanks to the Hall Trustees for providing the entertainment.

Miss Netta Seebeck, who has been seriously ill, is improving. Mrs P. McDonald, who has been on an extended visit to Canterbury and the North Island, has returned. Mr M. Keenan, of Woodstock, was the successful tenderer for the liquor booth at the Kumara Racing Club’s Easter Meeting. This is the sixth successive year that Mr Keenan has acquired the privilege. Mrs J. Reedy, who has been an inmate of the Grey Hospital, has returned to her home.

After a serious illness extending over several weeks, Mrs Jim Steel is now about again. Mrs Little, of Wellington, who has been spending a holiday on the Coast, returned to’ her home on Saturday. Last 'Wednesday afternoon, Allen Stuart, ten years of age, son of Mr ■and Mrs Stuart, Cape Terrace, met with a painful accident whilst cycling across the Taramakan bridge on Wednesday afternoon. He was on his way home from school and temporarily lost control of the machine, witli the result that he received a fall, inflicting injuries to the head, which necessitated surgical attention. The Kumara Racing Club, judging from the number of nominations received foi* the various events at the forthcoming Easter Meeting, are. in for another successful year. On the present occasion, in addition to the usual Coast horses engaged a number of nominations have come from so far afield as Auckland, so that the racing should prove much more interesting than in previous years. The course and appointments have received special attention, so that horse owners and visitors alike should have no cause for complaint. The newly-erected total i-. sator house providing for the sale of 10/ as well as £1 tickets will be welcomed by a large section of the patrons of this popular meeting. In order to avoid the 10 per cent penalty, ratepayers have been to the fore in paying their rates, with the result that the Borough Treasurer has had a busy time during the past few days. Next Tuesday, March 26, being the last banking day for the year, it is expected the Borough funds will be further augmented.