LOCAL AND GENERAL

Grey River Argus, 3 June 1942, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

The Runanga Croquet Club has decided to invest £4O in the Liberty Loan.

Have you tried our thrifty service? This- is a Service to suit the housekeeping allowance of every housewife. Price 5/- for a bag of 181bs., all flat work returned dried and ironed, personal wear returned ready for ironing. ’Phone 136. Westland Laundry Ltd., Gresspn St. Depot: 27 Albert Street.—Advt.

Plan ahead, buy that Coat, Frock, Suit or Twin Set now. White’s have a big stock of all Fashion goods. Just come in and judge for yourselves.— White’s Corner, Your Fashion Centre.

In the following civil claims dealt with by Messrsi J. M. Bunt and P. C. Heaphy, J’s.P., in the Magistrate. Court at Greymouth yesterday, judgment for plaintiff by default with costs was given:—W\_Loyze v. J. E. Ridden, £7 12s 4d, costs £1 10s 6d; W. Lowe v. R. Beams, £l4 3s ' 9d, costs £2 17s.

Invest 2/6 for £2OOO first prize in Be the Next Art Union, £5OOO in 305 prizes; closing Saturday, June 6th; drawn June 17th. Tickets 2/6. — Advt.

Residents of Runanga will be pleased to know that the Westland Laundry, Ltd., Greymouth, will be picking up laundry on Wednesdays and returning Fridays. D. Manderson, Runanga, wMI supply all information and price lists.—Advt. A telegram from states that yesterday general approval of a basis of union between the Presbyterian, Methodist, and Congregational Churches was reached unanimously by the Timaru Presbytery.

Presbyterian Men’s Social Evening to-night (Wednesday), in St. John’s Hall, at 8 o’clock. All welcome.— Advt.

A small increase in the number of births and deaths is shown in the vital statistics for May, as compared with the figures for the corresponding month last year. The figures for the month, with the statistics for May, 1941, in parentheses, are as fololws:—Births 33 (31): deaths .17 (12); marriage notices issued 4 (6); marriages by Registrar 0 (0). There is £2OOO for someone in Be the Next Art Union, £5OOO in 305 prizes, closing Saturday, .June 6t>i; drawn June 17th—Come and try your luck. Tickets 2/6. —Advt.

A London cable message states that a new process for freezing, meat is ' announced. The process freezes entire quarters of beef in hours, instead of days, saving 35 per cent, in transport and storage space. The process was discovered by Mr. Brewster. General Manager of the Smithfield and Argentine Meat Company.

“Smokers.- and smoking,” is the I’tle of an interesting article in a .Melbourne weekly. The writer cites the case of the head of a great commercial house who when making an appointment to his staff invariably prefers to engage a smoker. A lovei of the weed himself he says his long experience as an employer satisfies him that smokers are usually broader in their views, saner in their outlook than non-smokers, and “pull together”' better, being more •contented when at work. Other employers will doubtless endorse’dthat, for it happens to be true, as- a rule. But very much depends upon the tobacco.. Constant use of the wrong “baccy”-so far from promoting har-r-iony . and contentment may have the opposite effect, and excess of r.icotine in. the weed will assuredly do it. Fortunately for New Zealaniirs they have in the five leading, brands, Riverhead Gold, Desert i Gold, Pocket Edition, Navy Cut No. ’ 3 (Bulldog), and Cut Plug No. 10 (Bullshead), tobacco not only of superlative quality but so compara- i tively free from nicotine (owing to being toasted), that they are “safe as houses” to smoke to any extent. I - -Advt. |

How many things could you do with £2ooo—Try your luck in Be the Next Art Union; £5OOO in 305 prizes; £2OOO Ist prize, closing Saturday, June 6; drawn June 17. Tickets 2/6— Advt.