THE KAIKOURA STAR And COUNTY GAZETTE and RECORDER THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1936. LOCAL AND GENERAL

Kaikoura Star, Volume LVI, Issue 89, 12 November 1936, Page 2

THE KAIKOURA STAR And COUNTY GAZETTE and RECORDER THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1936. LOCAL AND GENERAL

The Grange Road School Committee will conduct a dance, to be held in the Hapuku Hall on Saturday night. The proceers are in aid of the school funds.

The visiting Blenheim tennis players will bo the guests of the members of St. Michael’s Tennis Club at a dance to he held in the Suburban Hall on Saturday night. Mrs Sa biston’s orchestra will supply the music.

An event of unusual interest, will take place on the Show Grounds on Saturday, November 21, when a sports entertainment will be conducted by the committee of the Catholic Church in aid of the church funds. A dance will be held ih the'. Suburban Hall in the evening.

Recently we advertised that three overcoats and three hats required owners. Seven applications were made to the Star Office and the coats and two hats were claimed. Jn two instances other coats were returned to replace those claimed. We still have three coats and two hats on hand.

‘ 1 Now, Mr Lovelock, put it there.” In these words the Prime Minister (the Rt. Hon. M. J. Savage) extended a welcome to the famous New Zealand athlete, Mr J. E. Lovelock, at a Government reception held at Parliament Buildings on Monday. There was a distinguished gathering, which included representatives of all branches of spore. A notable figure was Tod Morgan, the New Zealand boxer, who won Now Zealand’s first Olympic title at Amsterdam in 1928.

‘•'Because of my service on local .bodies I have been subjected to a good deal of criticism at times,” said the chairman of the Auckland Hospital Board, the Rev. W. C. Wood, at the farewell tendered to him at Papakura on his resignation as vicar of the parish. 11 People seem to think a clergyman should* be a cross between a woman and a doormat.”

Next Sunday the Rev. W. Morton Ryburn, M.A., of India, is to visit Kaikoura and to give' a lantern service in. St. Paul’s Sunday School at 7.30 p.m. Mr Ryburn has been for fourteen years a missionary in the north of India and is headmaster of a boys’ high school there. In New Zealand Mr Ryburn was-

a representative hockey player, and. needless to say he has made the boys at his school keen on the game. Mr Ryburn is a good speaker with an interesting stoi’y to tell, and ali interested are invited. A strange bird, whfdi has been identified as a kookaburra, was seen last week in the vicinity of the Maunu Cemetery, about three miles from Whangarci. The bird, which resembled a large kingfisher, wjps very tame, ami it was possible to approach within a few feet of it. “It. is likely that the kookaburra came from Kawau Island.” said Mr R. A. Falla, ornithologist at the Auckland War Memorial Museum, commenting on the report. “The bird was liberated on the island many years ago by Sir George Grey, and occasionally it is reported on the mainland in the vicinity of Kawau. About twelve years ago a kookaburra arrived in Devon port, but it was thought that this bird travelled down the coast on a scow. Although it is unlikely,” continued Mr Falla, “it would not be impossible for the bird to have been blown across the Tasman Sea from Australia by strong winds. A kookaburra was once reported on the coast near Cape Maria Van Diemen, after a north-west gale.” CHRISTCHURCH MAN TORTURED Rescued From Rheumatic Agony! “The transformation effected by R.U.R. has been marvellous. The first month’s treatment caused a revolution in my life,” writes Mr T. Connelly, Christchurch, wtio suffered great pain through acute Rheumatism. Give R.U.R. a trial. R.U.R, is sold with money-back guarantee in every packet. Free booklet from Kaikoura Pharmacy. —1