The Kaikoura Star And COUNTY GAZETTE and RECORDER THURSDAY, JULY 29, 1943. LOCAL AND GENERAL

Kaikoura Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 58, 29 July 1943, Page 2

The Kaikoura Star And COUNTY GAZETTE and RECORDER THURSDAY, JULY 29, 1943. LOCAL AND GENERAL

The General Election will be held on Saturday, September 25. r The Farmers’ Co-pp. invite inspection of their half-price tables. Mr J. Assaf has a special announce meat in this issue. Tenders close on Thursday next for the lease of the new domain situate on Rorrison’s Road. On Thursday, August 12, a representative of Whales Optical Service will visit Kaikoura, and may be consulted at the Club hotel on defects of eyesight and deafness. the annual meeting of the Kaikoura Volunteer Fire Brigade is convened for Thursday next, August 5, at the Camp Pavilion, and the citizens of Kaikoura arc invited to be present. 'the China Central News reports that more than 8(H) Japanese were killed when an enemy g«unboat, laden with explosives, struck a mine near the Yangtse River port of Matanm, The women of the W.W.S.A. will conduct a cake and produce stall on .Saturday morning, in aid of the 1943 Patritoic Appeal Fund. Gifts of articles suitable for t'hc stall wdll be appreciated. A clearing sale of furniture and sundries, on account of Mrs M. Edgar, will be conducted by Messrs Pyne, Gould, G'uinness, Ltd., to-morrow, the sale commencing at 12.30 sharp. Seel advertisement for full particulars. Official advice has beeik, received that Sergeant Leslie Edmund Workman, son of Mr and Mrs E. 1R Workman, of Deal Street, has been reported missing on air operations. Mr and Mrs Workman have three sons, all of whom arc serving overseas. 'rhe War Department announced on Saturday that two fully loaded gliders were towed on a record 1243 miles non-stop flight carrying special maintenance equipment from Texas to North Carolina. The previous record was 1177 miles. Mrs S. E. Parker, of Kaikoura, an nounces flic engagement of her son Corporal Raymond Parker, to Sad e Adelaide, W.A.A.F..,. only daughter oj Mr and Mrs J. W. Finlay, of Kihiki.hi To Awamutlb To-morrow (Friday) night a social evening in honour of Returned Servicemen will be held in the Band Room, under the auspices of the Kaikoura Returned Services Association and the Women’s Auxiliary. All members of the Association and their wives are expected to attend. The bombing of Britain damaged 13,895 churches, monasteries, convents, and other ecclesiastical buildings, according to a report%f the War Damage Commission winch was cited by the Home Secretary'. (Mr Herbert Mor rison) in the Houße of Commons on Saturday. The figutes did not include schools, vicarages, br ordinary residential buildings. “Europe is entering a decisive phase,” stated Goebbels in his weekly article in Das Reich. “What this means our enemies wj.ll in due course realise to an extent which they will not welcome. We arc facing further developments with calm [composure. We have the longer arm and we hold the reins of victory. What? this means will become clearer during further military operations. ’ ’ • A fepresentat|ve of Procters, opticians, .'O'hristcihurch, will be in Kaikoura on Augu»i 6 apd 7, and may be consulted at th# Adelphi Hotel. No need there is to suffer colds. Or vicious ctfiighs and sneezes, No need to shiffider to go out To meet the Schilly breezes. Get rid of all these troubling ills, Be happy a|d secure, From sneezes, Roughs and colds be free With Woods’ Great Peppermint (Jure. Manufactured by W. E. Woods, Ltd., Lambton Quay, Wellington.