LOCAL AND GENERAL

Kaikoura Star, Volume LVI, Issue 92, 23 November 1936, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

\ repo: i of tlx* committee meeting of the A. ami P. Association, held on Saturday, is held over until out next issue. The annual general nieeiing of (he Kaikoura Golf Chib will be held at i he Public Library at 7.30 on Friday night. The Kovvhai Tennis Club will hold a dance in the Suburban Hall <m Saturday night. The Anglican Church bazaar will be held in the Drill Hall on Satin day. December 3. The Hapukii Sm -lai Committee will hold a dance in the Hapuku Hall on Wednesday night. There will be a lucky door number, cash Monte Carlo, and statue dance. Mr E. Scott will supply the music. At the Women’s Institute drama '• iicle meeting last week it was decide'! to stage a playette for members dur- I ing Christmas week, ami pfcirts were | allotted to those participating in the! product ion. INCREASING NEURITIS AGONY . VANISHES ; •’ Alter one month’s treatment with 1 R.l'.R. 1 have li.'cn entirely free lion; Neuritis, from which I suffered severe- I !y. ‘ ’ wrote Mr A. Greenfield, Oxford street, Sydney. The unbelievable pain 1 and torment, that comes with Rheumatism, Neuralgia. Neuritis, Lumbago and! Sciatica air quickly ended by R.l’.R. Sold with money-back guarantee in! every packet. Free booklet is oblain- ‘ able from Kaikoura Pharmacy. —-I •

Air .Tames Fulton has been re-elected as a member of tie 1 Marlborough Laud Board. Tenders are invited for the erection of a. bridge over Walter's ('reek ami a road culvert at Pay Paddock Road. Tiie Prime Minister, the Rt. Hon. Al. J. Havage. slates that it is intended to restrict Ihe period of the present Parliament to three years by amending the law. Members of the Social Committee of the Kaikoura branch of the Laboui Party are notified that a meeting will be held al the A. ami P. Pavil'm Show Grounds, at S o'clock on W> Inesday night. Tratiie was blocked for two hoiir.hi.a evening at the southern eml of the K;thaulai'a Bridge owing to a collision between a motor lorry ami a privatf car. The lorrv was proceeding to Parnassus and the car lo Kaikoura. Shop,keepers and others using weigh ing and measuring appliances are noli lied that such appliances must be sub milted for verification to the Ihspecto l o' Weights and Measuies, at the Courthouse from November 23 to 27 (in elusive) between the hours of 9 a.m and 5 p.m. “1 can picture a certain distin guished New Zealander saying: ‘Jimmy Parr has had a damn long innings, am: it is about time he h.ad his running shoes’. I am in full agreement will any statement of that kind.” said Sii James Parr, when acknowledging sin core tributes to him at a civic welcoim at Auckland. “I am unfeignedlv gl;i< to bo back. I have bought a car am am going round New Zealand.” leadership of the newly-formed Na lional Party. The president (Sir Georg' Wilson) having resigned, Auckland i endeavouring to secure Air ('. A. Wil kiiison ( Independent member Co i l-.’gmont i as Leader of the Opposition Hind the !bm. A. Hamilton stales tha ho 'lid not court the position, am | without the full support of the part; he is likely to speak out, just as an; j intelligent Scotsman might be expect ■: to do. To set out in the morning with pirl ; nd shovel for the routine day's worl :is a member of a gang of workers ii a leturued soldiers’ employment cam| ami to drive, hack to camp before tin morning was out, booked for a flip b London to see the Coronation, was th' experience of Mr W. Salmon, of tin Beach Road I nemployment C:im| Pa rataiaiimu. who has the good foitun to be a valued friend and war com radc of Mr Walter Devon, the winne of the £.*>o,ooo yielbourm- ('up swo.-p stake. j ihe dance held in the Suburban Hal ion Friday night, in aid of the Subm fan School prize fund. v. As a im -t en jovablo one ami a pleasant time w:i spent by those present to music sup plied by Air l-.llis Scott, with extia pki.ved by .Muster Cyril Scott. Mr J D. Boyd was master of ceremonies. 'Ph Monte Carlo waltz was won by Alis .'I. Waghorn ami Mr (Chapman. Th dinner competition was won by Mr I W. Boy.l (No. .’UM)). Supper was serv e< ami darning continued until a hit hou r. The annual wind-up of the Kaikour: Miniatuie R’.ifle Club took place on Fri .lay night in the form of a (lance hel< in the Drill Hall, at which trophies wot .luring the season were presented t. the winners by Mr 11. .1. Hayward, tie president of the club, who congratu ial'-d the recipients on their success ind referred to t';e enjoyable evening: sp-.-nt al the range. Mrs W. D. Sallis ton’s orchestra supplied the music, Mr T. Reardon playing an extra. Thom in attendance had :i most pleasant lime Supper was served and ‘‘Auld Lan:. Syne” was sung at ‘‘lights out.” A baker who never banked an; niom-y but always wrapped it up it papei :iml placed it in a drawer, re turned to his home on (tetober 10 t< find that £475 had been stolen. ()i Thursday morning, Leslie William Gib sons, on sustenance, appeared befor. Mr E. D. Mosley, in the Magistrate': Court, Christchurch, < harg d will bre-aking and entering the house* o Samuel Matthew Woods, at 21 Fort! Street. Richmond, and 'ommittiiq theft. He pleaded guilty and was com niitted to Ihe Supieme (’ourt for sen lence, being re!oase<l on bail in his owi recognisance* of £2si> am! one surety o £23(>, comlitionul upon reporting dail; to the* police. ('liief-Detecti ve* W. II Dunlop prosecuted ami -Mr 11. W. Hun ter appea red for Gibbons. A return lo his charge* that then iiad been inlrigue* e»ver the question o. the leadership of the National Partj was made* by Sir George Wilson, w hi has announced his resignation as presi deiit of tin* p;irty as a. protest against (he* attitude 1 of the Auckland division: towards the seduction of the Hon. A H.imilton as leaeler. ‘‘Ail 1 have t( say is that a member of the* Nationa I’ailv in Parliament, Air AV. J. Broad foot, aitcmled a meeting in Aucklauc last vve'ek ami spent some time ii criticising the* selectiem of Mr Hamilton lor the leadership, stressing e-e*il: in alleged politie-al weaknesses on the* part of the man whom a few weeks age> he ha-l limlertaken to support. If that does not suggest intrigue tji.m I have never understood the* meaning of the Damages amounting to £S(S3 wereawarded by a .jury in the Supreme? ('ourt at Blenheim on Thursday in a ease in which Clm.rle-s Alfred Andrell, a labourer, of Grovetown, claimeel £l3OO from Thomas Cornelius l.’riclmr-I. a I'armen - , of Spring ('reek, after an accident on Alay 1 in which plaint ill w:i> injuied allege*<llv as a result of the* negligent ehiving of defendant, in hi.- claim plaintiff allege.! that aresult of the acvivlent he had sulTci -o permanent partial disablement. ami was uauseel pain and inconvenience*. Negligence was admitted by th teiielant, ami the only matter ioi -he jurv was the assessment of damag s. Mr C. T. Smith appear. I .] for the plumiiif. and Mr W. T. Churchward for i ite d< i ■ ndant. The evidence was n-■ : \ of a technical and medical nature 1 . The ju.r.v was absent for an hour ami -m minutes.