LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 20 December 1924, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A\e have paid up on guarantee” said a shareholder of a local company when the question of J. and S. guarantee was being considered, “as so many of vou also have done, and we m ny have to do it again.”

Ihe Junior Bed Cross branch of the Eltham school recently ran a successful bazaar, the proceeds of which were devoted to the purchase of a surgical boot lor a little girl in "Wellington. They also despatched this week to the same little cripple a very fine dressed doll as a Christmas gift.

A thoughtful act was performed- by the members of the Junior Red Cross branch m connection with the Eltham school on Thursday, when a scholar of the school was presented with two union m outfits, including two hats and a pan- of nice shoes, for Christmas.

I he I act that the lightning conductor on the water tower was out of repair was again .mentioned by CY. Alorrissey at a special meeting of the Hawera Borough Council last night. He said tint it had been thought that the present lightning conductor, when repaired, wpuld be inadequate, but Air Evans had told hiin that it would he quito sufficient. However, some of the points had come apart, and it would be necssary U-, effect repairs. The* council decided to leave the matte," to the engineer to attend to.

Christmas carols and anthems will be sung at St. Mary’s -Church on Sunday evening. The soloist will be Aliss Gray, and Air Atkin will preside at the organ.

At the close of a brief service in the Hawera, Afefliodist Church to-morrow night the choir, under the leadership of Air M. Newberry, will render the cantata entitled “The Great Light.” A retiring- collection will be taken up in aid of the Aleth dist Orphanage. Particulars oT train -arrangements oil 2ofh, 2fitli and 27tli December and of issue of cheap', excursion tickets to New Plymouth are advertised in this issue.