LOCAL AND GENERAL

Kaikoura Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 8, 1 February 1943, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

The re-opening of tihe public schools will take place to-morrow.

The monthly meeting of the Kaikoura County Council is to take place on Friday next.

Sittings Of the Native Land Court will be held in Kaikoura on February 3 and 4.

Mrs M. Brooks (Fairlie), sister of Mr P. M. Kerr, is spending a holiday in Kaikoura. Mrs Brooks was a resident of Kaikoura 53 yegrp ago.

1 he attention of farmers is drawn to a notice in this issue by the Primary Production Committee respecting meetings to be held to discuss urgent business.

Mr E. Cholterton, optical specialist, proprietor of Procters, Ltd., Christchurch will arrive in Kaikoura on Friday next, and may ge consulted at the Adelphi Hotel between 1 and 5 p.m., and on Saturday from 9 a.m.. to non.

G. V. Burgoyne, of Blenheim, was a successful candidate in the Public Service Entrance Examination, his place on the credit list being 1482.

The weekly dance supervised by the Soldiers’ Entertainment'Committee will take place at the Drill Hall on Saturday night.

Those desirous of taking a course of first aid or home nursing training are requested to send in t'heir names to Mrs Abraham Boyd (secretary) not later than February 9. The Dunedin boy, James William Kingsland, who heads the New Zealand list in the Public Service Entrance Examination, is the son of Mr James Kingsland, an electrical engineer. He is a student at the Technical High School, where he has been taking an engineering course, and is 16J years old.

Two members of the Royal New Zealand Air Force, both residents of Wanganui, lost their lives during a nightflying test at a South Island air station on Wednesday, when their aircraft -crashed. They were: Sergeant .Louis John Norfolk Gumbley, of Wanganu, and Acting-Corporal Eric Courtney Bell, of Wanganui.

John Smith; aged 58, of North East Valley, Dunedin, the driver of a 15ton steam roller belonging to the Dunedin City Corporation, was killed on Wednesday when the roller got out of control in York Place and capsized. He was pinned underneath, receiving terrible injuries from which ihe died after being removed from under the rolle-.

There was a large: attendance at the dance held in the Suburban Hall on Friday night, at which presentations were made to Corporals H A. Waghorn, B. J, Broadhurst, Privates W. Gray, G. Crawford asd C. F. jblemett. Music was suppled by Mrs <J. Garrett (piano), and R. McLennan tfbanjo). On behalf of the R.S.A. Mr C..A. Jensen presented Corporal Waghoijti with a gift, and Mr P. 8. Humm m&le presentatioss to the other guests ou lehalf of Suburban residents. Mr H. Hi iris was master of r'Orpmnnioa