THE KAIKOURA STAR And COUNTY GAZETTE AND RECORDER FRIDAY, MAY 9, 1924. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Kaikoura Star, Volume XLIV, Issue 38, 9 May 1924, Page 2

THE KAIKOURA STAR And COUNTY GAZETTE AND RECORDER FRIDAY, MAY 9, 1924. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Cygnet arrived from South yesterday, and the Wakatu from North. The Kaikoura Orchestral Society is to give a concert in the Dril Hall on May 26. The N.Z. Farmers’ Co-op. will offer Mr J. People’s 25-acres farm for sale by auction to-morrow. The Rev. W. D. Robb will conduct services morning and evening at St. Paul’s Presbyterian Church on Sunday. The sale of Mr J. S. Boughton’s farm has been postponed until May 24. The will be held at Messrs Pyne. Gould, Guinness’ Kaikoura office. The Hapuku Hall Committee is in need of funds to improve the hall, and a dance will be held on Friday next for

A dance will be held at Suburban Hall to-night. The marriage took place on April at St. Andrew’s Church, of Miss (,'laiu Merivale Marshall, to Air Stanley Crc>nr Na’smith. of Mosgiel. The Rev. W. Me Ara performed the ceremony.

The South Australian Labour Govern- ■ ment has decided that all Government j employees coming within the scope of i the recently-declared basic wage shall I receive the increase. This will involve an additional expenditure of £IOO,OOO a The price of first grade standard brands of butter in the Wellington market has been advanced Id per lb. This brings the price into line with all centres but Auckland, and is in conformity with the recent advance in the price of New Zealand butter in London. Sales are reported as having been made- on the basis of 1/4id in bulk for export during May and June. Jn connection with the movement to secure completion of the South Island Main Trunk Bailway, the Marlborough Progress League has received advice from the South Marlborough League that in the last five years 44.000 crates of fish valued at £66,000 have been expert cd from Kaikoura to Christchurch, and these figures could have been doub- | led if <a railway service had been avflil- J able. The letter also says that the dairy- j ing industry round Kaikoura is steadily ! growing, and the Kaikoura Co-operative | Dairy Company last year produced equal to 390 tons of cheese and the . Hupuku Company 72 tons. “Once again the dairy farmers of New Zealand have had to pay the price of irregular shipments of their produce to the London market,’’ -L4 an expert to the Taranaki Daily News, when pointing cut that the rapid decline in the quotation for butter and cheese was largely due to the fact that in a little over three weeks Tooley Street was compelled to deal with a fraction over a sixth of the Dominion’s annua! output of butter, and slightly more than a third of the output of cheese. Now Zealand’s annual production of butter and cheese is’about 60,000 tons of each commodify. In the period between Feb-ruary-Bfh and March Sth, 9714 tons of butter and tons of cheese ar- ; rived in London. Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure. For Bronchial Coughs, take

On Wednesday next a uanco will be held in the Suburban Hall, in aid of funds for repairing the children’s playing shed at Suburban School. Mrs J. Washington desires to acknowledge receipt of £1 1/ from Mr .Ter. .Boyd, and 5/ from Mrs G. Lawson, tdv... rds “The Garden of Memories” fund. Although the Canterbury Automobile Association has been instrumental in pioviding wire netting for the ford nt Conway l iver, the Public Works Department have nut yet removed it from the G.r.rf. A meeting oi the Kaikoui . Ladies’ Hockey Club p-sce last night, i.i the Hindi*.: Library, Mr A. Gooch (Vice 1 re silent ••••?.-!(■ The Secretary submilted the 1;.*.! i,i< . ,-b. V , which ..hov. cd a credh balance of £7 is/JO. A letter was received from tin* Cheviot Club, as! ing if a niat< h could ■ an • .Li was decided that, as the team was not yei oi gaov-id, to communicate with the llapuku Chib, enquiring if members wore willing to combine with Kaikoura in a match against Cheviot. Owing to the sm.-i'd attendance at the meeting it was decided to adjourn until May 19, to enable the Secretary to ascertain the number of ladies desirous of playing this scason.