GENERAL NEWS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 261, 2 October 1940, Page 5

GENERAL NEWS.

Basketball. ■ . The final games of the Feilding basket ball competition have been placed. Girls A have not been beaten during the season, and eo win from the High , the'Hunt Cup. Cobbo’s and High School share the next position on 'adder, each team having two losses. The point are- Old Girls A, 30; Cobbe s 245, High School 24; Swifts, 14; Toas, 14; Old Girls B 8; St. Brigid’s, 2. The season will close on Saturday, when a mixed tournament will be held on the High School courts.

Birthday Party. 'the 13th birthday party of, the Feilding branch of the W.D.F.U. will be held m the Oddfellows’ Hall on Triday at 1.30 p.m. Members and friends are invited, and the former arc asked to bring a p-ate. Address On India.

Rev. M Bade gave an address to the pupil’s of : the High Scho’oL yesterday, his remarks relating to Inc^ia.

St. John Ambulance. Some 30 members of the St. John Ambulance Corps in Feilding paid a visit to Palmerston North last evening for a lecture given by Mr Meaehem. Concert And Dance.

By advertisement in this issue the Colyton Patriotic Committee announces that a concert and dance will be held in the Coly • ton Hall to-morrow evening, when the procoeds will go to tho local fund for soldiers’ and refugee comforts. Patriotic Shop Day. This week’s Patriotic Shop Day, on Friday, will be conducted under the direction of Mrs Ray Bailey and helpers. It is from the profits of these stalls that money is made available for comforts for soldiers in camps, arid donations of produce, meat, foodstuffs, etc., will be welcome. 'The telephone number is 624. Valedictory.

Mr John Tobeck, oi the staff of the N.Z. Farmers’ Co-op. Distributing Coy,, Ltd., has retired after some years of faithful service, and the opportunity was taken last evening to make him a presentation. The general manager (Mr W. Coulson Fowjer), in making the presentation of an easy chair, referred to the good service rendered by Mr Tobeck and to his sterling qualities, Messrs A. C. Buist, V. Lawrence and W.- J. Thorburn also spoke in glowing terms of the services of Mr Tobeck. Golf.

On Saturday next a four-ball best ball bogey scramble will be played by the Golf Club, members to choose their partners and opponents. This competition, takes the place of the. medal contest.

Old Pupils’ Reunion. The Feilding Agricultural High School Old Pupils’ Association reunion at Kimboltou will be held ill the Oddfellows’ Hall on Saturday next at 3 p.m. the speaker will be Mr 11. O. D. Someivct. An invitation \’is extended to old pupils and their partners