THE KAIKOURA STAR And COUNTY GAZETTE and RECORDER THURSDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1936. LOCAL AND GENERAL

Kaikoura Star, Volume LVI, Issue 85, 29 October 1936, Page 2

THE KAIKOURA STAR And COUNTY GAZETTE and RECORDER THURSDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1936. LOCAL AND GENERAL

St. Michael’s Tennis Club will hold a dance in the Drill Hall on Saturday night.. The monthly meeting of the County Council will be held on Friday. November 6. A labour rally will be held in the Band Room to-morrow (Friday) evening. All interested in the welfare of the Labour Party are invited. The official opening of the bowling season will take place on Saturday. The 1 ,i(‘sidimt and members extend a hearty invitation to the public to be present. A slin fish, 7 feet long and 4 feet deep, became stranded on the foreshore at the back of the Farmers’ saleyards • luring the week-end, and is lying just above the tide line. It. has attracted a good deal of attention, especially among the young folk. JP r - Gayda. in the (liornaJie d Italia, suggests that only those powers giving megnition of Italy’s conquest of Abyssinia will enjoy their former economic interests. “The gate is still open,” he says, ‘‘but one day it will be shut.” The sister ship to the Queen Mary, the No. 552, is already insured in British markets for £3,256,000 while being constructed. This is the largest amount for which any merchant-man has been insured in similar circumstances. Brokers are confident that the market will eventually exceed £3,500,000. The vessel when completed will be valued at £4,500,000. The death occurred at Blenheim on Monday evening, after a short illness, of Mrs I. C. Wintringham, formerly Miss F. M. Morrison. The deceased lady possessed a beautiful contralto voice and at various times assisted at concerts held in Kaikoura. In 1926 she married Mr Wintringham and gradually ceased to take part in musical affairs. The deceased lady is survived by her husband anil three brothers—Messrs .T. H., F. E., and .T. M. Morrison (Blenheim). Her five sisters predeceased her. An official announcement that the Rev. C. G. Scrimgeour, founder of the Friendly Road broadcasting station in Auckland, has been appointed controller of commercial broadcasting stations, was made on Tuesday by the Prime Minister (the Rt. Hon. M. J. Savage). Mr Scrimgeour’s position will carry a salary of £5OO a year, with an additional commission of 7A per cent, on advertising revenue, and his new duties will start with the inauguration of station IZB as a commercial station to-night. A decision affecting many grocery firms, was given in the Magistrate’s Court at Christchurch on Tuesday in a reserved judgment delivered by Mr F. F. Reid, S.M. The case rested on whether assistants at provision counters in certain grocers’ shops come under the scope of the Canterbury Butchers’ Award. The question for decision was whether because defendants sold meats of a kind also sold by pork butchers and delicatessen shops they wore bound by the award in question in respect of the provision counters. The judgment decided that they did not come under the award.

Herr Hitler is reported to be considering the restoration of the monarchy in Germany, according to the Berne correspondent of the Paris newspaper, L’lnformination. Herr Hitler’s choice has fallen on the Duke of Brunswick, to whom, it is stated, lu* intends to offer the throne. Herr Hitler, it is added, now wishes to copy the Italian system, under which Signor Mussolini, although tin* absolute master I of the country, is covered by the moral authority of a reigning Sovereign. The Dike of Brunswick, who is 49 years of age, is a Guelph. He is a cousin of the late King George, and was deprived of the British title of Duke of Cumberland during the Great War. ; ACUTE RHEUMATISM ENDED ■ Walking was agony to Air Frank F. Gibson,. .28 Beatrice street, Invercargill, sufferer of acute Rheumatism for years. He gained release from pain with R.U.R. and writes to-day to say he is completely cured. R.U.R. is sold with money-back guarantee in every 1 packet by Kaikoura Pharmacy. Free 'Booklet 3