NEWS IN ADVERTISEMENTS.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVI, Issue 88, 30 March 1926, Page 6

NEWS IN ADVERTISEMENTS.

The meeting of Glee Chib associates of the Havelock North Women’s Institute arranged for Tuesday, April 6, has been postponed to Tuesday, 13th, owing to the Easter holidays. Owing to congestion and the Easier ; holidays, the Federation -will b c unable I to receive fruit railed after to-day. No export fruit will be inspected after co* I day till following Tuesday. Fruit exj porters are therefore advised to refrain 1 from picking and packing export fruit I till after Easter. Fruitgrowers are notified by advertisement that the association store wil. be closed from Thursday evening til. Tuesday morning, and those who ate requiring packing materials are requested to pick up same not later than The Otaiiiauri Combined Sports will be held on Friday, April 16, commencing nt 10 o’clock sharp. Bene and Shaw have a new list <»x scatters on page 1. Mr J. A. Newrick wishes to buy 10,000 sheepskins and sound pelts. The Paki I’aki Football Club’s ball takes place to-morrow evening. A 'bus will leave th© Albert Stables at *7.30 p.m. A poi concert and dance will be held in the Omahu meeting house to-night (Tuesday) at 7.30 o'clock. The proceeds will go to the orchestral fund. The Havelock North Town Board notifies that motor drivers’ anci motor lorry licenses must be renewed on or before April 1. Mrs W. Keith has opened up a tea room and catering business in the new shop opposite the Cosy Theatre, Hastings. Balls, socials, and wedding parties will be specially catered for. A general meeting of the Hastings High School Old Boys’ Football ( llib will be held in the National Service Club rooms on Wednesday, March 31. at 7 p.m. All members and intending members are requested to attend. The Hastings Retailers’ Association gives notice that its members will close their premises all day on Friday, Saturday and Monday next. Shops will he open all day to-morrow (Wednesday), and Thursday will ho late shopping night. Dalgety and Co., Ltd., will offer at the Stortford Lodge saleyards to-mor-row, immediately following the stock sale, a “Case” tractor, trailer, plough, potato digger, etc., on account of the estate of the late Tin Rotima. Preparations are well in hand for ths Hastings Hibernian Society’s ball to be held in the Assembly Hall to-nwrrow evening. Robertson’s Premier .Jazz Bund will be in attendance, and there v,ili be a waltzing competition. Tho Hawke’s Bay County Council invites tenders up to 11 a.m. on Wednesday, April 21, for tho construction of a ferro-concrete bridge consisting of three 40-feet spans over the Otamauri fjtream at Whana Whana. Plans and specifications can bo seen at the Hawke’s Bay County Council office, Napier. Everything ready to wear for Easter —the smartest in apparel and millinery, and the most useful in travelling requisites of every description —is available at famous low prices from Westerman and Co., the ready-money drapers, Hastings. Popular with particular people, th? new autumn modes at Baird’s Leading Drapers and Mercers, make irresistable appeal to those who desire somethin*, exclusive in their dress and yet nor impossible in pricq, by buying direct at the fashion centres all intermediate exponses are saved, a saving that is passed on to the buyer. Yon will not find the styles shown at Baird’s, elsewhere. Call and see them first. To-morrow will be the last opportunity to get prime Easter poultry Anyone requiring poultry should remember that A. E. Bullen and (p. start their sale at 1 p.m. and will follow on with a nice selection of household furniture, including a special line from a vendor who is giving up housekeeping. During the alteri noon all fruit and produce must he I cleared for the holidays. A final reminder is given to all those 1 on the look nt for modern house furnjture, piano, gramophone, etc., of Mr Menzie’s sale, which will be conducted by Messrs Gill Bros on the premises, ‘ Nelson street (towards Cornwall Park 1 1 pn Wednesday, commencing sharp at 1.30. Thcs c are really genuine goods and are Duly being sold on account of the family leaving Hastings.

The Napier Borough inspector suggested in his report to last night s : meeting of the Council that, as the j borough stage licenses expire on May ; 31, before granting renewals it would bn advisable to consider the question of keeping the vehicles out of Emerson street or directing them up by one street and back by another. At present there were 26 vehicles plying i through Emerson street with the probability of more in the near future. The inspector was instructed to report to a committee with suggestions as to . routes and stands The unsatisfactory 'bitumen coating Dji various portions of Hastings street i extension was mentioned at lasi night’s meeting of the Napier Borough Council by Cr. J- C. Bryant, who said ■ that it was coming off in Hakes and ! crumbling up. h was explained by I the borough engineer, Mr. G. F. Clap- ! cott, that the coating referred to was I very thin and was a bitumen painting, not the usual tar sanding over the completed road surface. If the coating . had been much thicker it would have withstood the wear and tear, and the fact that it was non-slipper.v was a , great advantage. The contracting [ company would rectify the portion affected.