LOCAL AND GENERAL

Huntly Press and District Gazette, Volume XXII, 23 August 1932, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Amos Dobson advertises reductions in prices of roof iron, tanks and buckets.

The schedules for the Huntly Horticultural Society are now printed and are obtainable at the Press Office.

In this issue Hooker and King ston advertise Last Week Sale Bargains. Don’t forget to look these over.

Those looking for land at a payable price should consult the Huntly Land Agency. See ad vertisement for special offers.

Ladies will be pleased to hecr that, as result of many enquiries, Mrs H. Towler has started dressmaking in a shop next to Douglas, draper.*

On Friday last, the schools closed for the holidays, and will re-open again on Monday, September s:h.

Twenty-five gangs, comprising about 200 men, are engaged on land improvement work on farms in the Hamilton district, states the Hamilton branch of the Labour Department. These men are performing definite productive work.

The Railway Department advertises in this issue particulars of issue of Excursion tickets in connection with Trotting Club’s Meeting at Auckland on 27th August.

“A balance-sheet, to the lay mind, does not give anything definite,” conplained a shareholder at the annual meeting of a North Wairarapa dairy company. “That is the idea of a balance-sheet,” observed the chairman dryly.

What keeps Towler, the local tailor, so busy during the depression ? His prices are down to meet the times, and all suits are built to standard, on the pre raises, opposite the Town Hill.* The players selected to represent the Waikato Schools Soccer Football Association in the Annual Webster Shield tournament, to be held in Wellington this week, left Huntly last evening by the Wellington Express. The team is in charge of Messrs J. Douglas and P. Honnor.