LOCAL AND GENERAL

Kaikoura Star, Volume LVI, Issue 93, 26 November 1936, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

The Kowhai Tennis Club advertise a anno! dance, to be held in the Suburban Hall on Saturday night. The Church of England bazaar will ake place nt the Drill Hall on Deember 5. Mt S. T. Harris, hardware merchant. Vest End, advises that he has full supdies of camp equipment in stock. Keep a night free for tin* .children's ; ancy dress carnival, to be held in the Mill Hall on December 19. The hamper competition, conducted .»y the Catholic Church committee, was von by J. W. Manson, No. 137. Golfers are reminded that the annual meeting of members of the Kaiikoura Solf Club will be held at the Public Library at 7.3(1 to-morrow night. Shopkeepers ai'e reminded that all weighing and measuring appliances must be submitted for testing nt the Courthouse before 5 p.m. to-morrow. Tenders (dose at 4 p.m. on Thursday next for the erection of a bridge at Walter’s Creek and a culvert at Bay Paddock Road. The monthly meeting of the executive of the Kaikoura branch of the Labour Party will be held at the Drill Hall at 7.30 on Monday night, prior to the reception to the Hon. R. Semple. The Daily Mail says that Lord Joi coy, who died on Sunday, started life as a clerk earning £2 a week in his uncle’s office. It is believed that he. left between £4.000,000 ami £5,000,000. A dan-'e will be held in the* Drill Hall on Mondav night in honour of the visit of the Hon. R. Semple, Minister for Public Works. During an interval the Minister will give a brief address. It is anticipated that there will he a large attendance of the publit' at the function. The adjourned annual meeting of the Athletic ami Cycling Club is convened for to-morrow night at the Drill Hall. If there is not a good attendance to enable officers to be elected, the present committee will recommend the disbandment of the club. Every athlete in the district, ami members of the business community, should be present al the meeting. The SI lathnaver, with a large number of tourists, arrived in Wellington on Moodily. The Strathnaver is a ves sei of 22,283 tons, and has seven decks She has three funnels, two of which are dummies, and are used as store rooms. The tit tings are luxurious am last (*ful. ami are executed largely ii medieval style. An unusual sight t< Wellington Wins the large number ol Lascars employed on tin* ship, clad ii picturesque costumes including red am. white caps ami blue and white over alls. A sensation has been caused by ar article in the Gorman military weekly Militar Wochenblatt, stating that the tanks and armoured cars of the L’nite< States are second rate, judged fron European standards. This is rcfutei b t v the War Department, which state: that the paper is completely in error The General Staff has completed ex haustive tests and is satisfied that it: mechanised equipment compares fav ourably with that of any nation. I is pointed out that the author of tin article. Heinz Bach, erred because h< discussed obsolete equipment. A London message states: Tim deatl has occurred of Sir l-’itzroy Maclean grand president of the Clan Gilleai Association. and a Crimean Wa veteran, at the age of 101. As a bo; Sir Fitzroy was shown Duart Castle which was the home of the Maclean: for thousands of years, but had fallei into decay. He vowed that he wonk restore the castle as a residence, whiel vow he fulfilled in 1912. Hundreds o clansmen from all parts of the work visited Sir Fitzroy Maclean on hi. hundredth birthday. He will probabl. be buried on the sacred isle of lona and will be mourned by 20,000 mem bers of tin* Clan Maclean. EXCRUCIATING RHEUMATIC PAINS ENDED R.C.R. gives “Heaven sent’’ peac and relief to sufferers of Bheumatisn ami other Uric- Acid complaints. Thons amis of satisfied users testify to th wonderful curative qualities and cas> gained through R.U.R. Rheumatic Cure Sold with money-back guarantee i ('very packet. Free booklet. R.U.R. i obtainable from Kaikoura Pharmacy. .