Manawatu Herald TUESDAY, AUGUST 14, 1928. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 3831, 14 August 1928, Page 2

Manawatu Herald TUESDAY, AUGUST 14, 1928. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

At last night’s Borough Council meeting accounts amounting to £999 13s 2d were passed for payment.

Men’s Oil Coats, from 37/fi. Womans’ Rubber Coats, from 7/11. Children’s Rubber Coats, from 8/11. —At the C. M. Ross Coy’s, clean up this week.*

Opossums are reported to be plentiful at the foot of the Tnraruas, and one local trapper has been very successful. The skins are said to be of the best.

To Motorists: Fill up at Fairey’s Refreshment Rooms. The spirit with which we serve you will please you. Ilot pies, mashed potatoes and peas, 9d; for the ladies dainty morning and afternoon tea, 9d. Rest room for Ladies. Mothers with babies special attention. Plunket Rooms on premises. Open on Thursdays, at Fairey’s, Foxton.* A joke, perpetrated by the president of the Auckland Rotary Club, Mr. G. W. Hutchison, caused amusement at the club’s luncheon this week. A laugh had been raised by a remark by Mr. Russell Chester, examiner for . the Royal Academy of Music, who, speaking of restaurant music and dancing in restaurants, said while he enjoyed a dance as much as anyone, he preferred to take his soup “pianissimo, rather than take cover under the playing of an orchestra.” When (he address was over, Mr. Hutchison grandiloquently presented Mr. Chester with a “noiseless soup spoon,” the main feature of which was a bole in the bowl, from which the soil]) would pour as soon as it filled. He made the presentation as a memento of “a club which could partake of its soup in deathly silence.”