CHEVIOT NOTES.

Kaikoura Star, Volume XLV, Issue 71, 4 September 1925, Page 5 (Supplement)

CHEVIOT NOTES.

Mr J. Mr Taggart is io be entertained it a farewell smoke concert in tin Cheviot Public Hall this evening. A memorial service in memory cf Ju •ate Mrs J. McPherson will be contacted by the Rev. E. Swinerd, tv Spotswood, (in Sunday morning next. A grand euchre party and dance, aid of the funds of tin* l’lunket So iety, will be held in the Cheviot PubliHall on Monday. The annual general meeting of the Mackenzie Tennis Club will be .held :h :he Cheviot Public Ball on Tuesda September 8. A .meeting of those interested in tenluring a complimentary social to Mr G. ,V. Forbes, M.P., will be held in ihe Cheviot Public Hall this evening at 7.30. A dance, under (lie auspices.- of -,h< Social Committee of the Cheviot Foot hall Club, will be held in the Public Mall to-morrow evening. “There is only one thing in which entirely disagree with our America! visitors, ” said the Rev. Jasper Gabler n the course of a lecture on snakes, al Auckland (reports the Herald). “I was taking- a party of bluejackets round oui fair city, and I happened to mention my forthcoming lecture on snakes. T» my astonishment a sailor, who did not ..now me from Adam, suddenly said. ‘Gee! I hear there’s a parson bloke :i Auckland who wanted to import i mn snakes to New Zealand. 1 reckon ;h< fool ought to he hanged, don’t you?’ 1 regretted that I could not agree with him. ’ ’ The Stipendiary Magistrate at Hamil ton (Mr H. A. Young), having three or four acres attached to his residence, ha:been dabbling in dairying during ;h< past three years. Buying a pedigree *ow from the Ruakura State Farm for ih< purpose of supplying the house, he received from it a heifer, which, with its own first calf, was sold the other day for 102 guineas. Besides this the* .Magistrate has had dairy produce which he valued at £1 per week, and the Waikato Times says that in embarking upon ihe undertaking he also took the view that a practical knowledge of dairying would enable him more easily to follow the many cases involving farming operations that came under his jurisdiction. First aid for coughs, colds and influenza, Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure.