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Kaikoura Star, Volume LVI, Issue 88, 9 November 1936, Page 2

Miss Q. Aides (Nelson) was a visitor to Kaikoura for the week-end, and was the guest of Air and Airs R. G. Aliles, Hawthorne Road. The Grange Road School Committee will hold a dance in the Hapuku Hall on Saturday night in aid of the school funds. The dance to have been held in the Suburban Hall on Saturday night under the supervision of the Suburban School Committee had to be postponed on account of the weather. A fine specimen of a Afaori “god” was unearthed during excavations near the Cherry Gardens, Oaro, recently. It was about 12in in height and 4in in width. Sister M. Oppenheim, of the Kaikoura Hospital, has received advice of her appointment as Sistcr-in-Chargc of Christ’s College Hospital. Aliss Oppenheim will take up her new duties on February 1, 1937. All outdoor sports had to be abandoned on Saturday afternoon owing to rain setting in at noon. Light rain continued throughout Sunday and this morning, the fall recorded up to 9 | o’clock was 1.67 in. At Ljvnton Downs the rainfall registered from noon on Saturday until this morning was 2.06 in. The November issue of the Australian Journal, like previous issues, is remarkable for the quantity and quality of its fiction. AVilliam Hatfield’s new short serial, “Abandon Ship,” is proving both interesting and exciting, and there is little dotibht that it will be as popular as many of the longer novels written by this famous Australian author. Other contributors include ATargaret Fane and Hilary Lofting. Rex Grayson, Alyra Morris. John Guthrie (the outstanding New Zealand writer). Frank Walford, Helen Somers, Captain F. Rhodes, Elizabeth Powell, and others As usual, the feature pages are crammed full with interesting sections, including fashions, radio notes, cooikery hints and recipes, knitting and ncedlewoik designs, dressmaking notes, paragraphs. and a section for the children. The price is only sixpence, at all news asrents.