LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Times, Volume XLVI, Issue 2234, 21 September 1922, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A short time ago a Palmerston resident was privileged to hear the Pans time signal by wireless at the Wellington observatory, at an early hour in the morning. The ladies of St. Peter’s Guild have decided to hold their annual sale of Work in the Coronation Hall, Terrace End, on Wednesday, 18th October. Full details will be advertised later. In its two days’ sitting just concluded in Palmerston North, the Assessment Court made reductions to the borough valuations amounting to under £4OOO. This out of a total capital value of the borough of five and a half millions.

At many country homesteads in this district the narcissus may now be seen growing and blooming in the grass beneath the trees, quite unprotected. This appears to be an ideal condition for their culture without care, and is unknown in tire garden of the town dweller. The American Postal Service is not so up-to-date as ours. With us the returned of an undelivered letter or its redirection is free of po/tage. American letters to hand bear the superscription "Postmaster, if undelivered please notify us and postage will be forwarded.”

At a meeting of the Shannon Borough Council held on Tuesday night a water supply scheme for Die township prepared by Messrs it. Edwards and Son, of Palmerston North, was approved, and is to be proceeded with Immediately. The estimated cost is £12,000,

The P. and T. annual ball, which was held in the Empire Hall last night, was an unqualified success. Over 100 couples were present, and dancing was enjoyed to muse supplied by the association's own orchestra. Messrs J. Kirkpatrick, J. .1. Glynn and J. O’Brien were the M’s.C.

The concluding performance of the Nellie Bramley Dramatic Company’s Palmerston North season was given last night when "Sunday” was staged, a, play which gave full scope for Mrs Brantley’s undoubted ability for emotional acting. The whole cast was a particularly strong one. The audience showed Its appreciation in an unmistakable manner.

A hospitable Palmerston North hostess, who delights in the brief visits of her many welcome friends, wishes sincerely that the Japanese custom of carrying one’s own thin soft silken sheets could be introduced Into this servantless country. Faiung this luxury, the plan of the plainer people of that land of paper might be substituted. They use soft, warm crinkled tissue sheets, which cost only a fraction of the daily washing of linen entailed by the flying visits of many friends.

On behalf of the Armenian relief fund the Kairangu Auctioneering’ Coy, Old., has undertaken to auction any produce sent in for the benefit of the relief funds, and the Auctioneers Association will dispose similarly of anj stock sent in to any of their saleyards. All classes of the community are combining to make this Humanitarian sale on behalf of Armenia’s children. Saturday terminates the local committee’s special effort and the local depot is not vet full.

The Guild system, of which Mr. J. Murray spoke at the Lunch Club, has Interesting historic associations and lessons for us. It was, for a long ' period, the only representative of the trades and labour unions which sprang from it, but those were thrifty days, and unlike the bankrupt unions of to-day, the guilds were formed mainly with the "object of promoting , mutual and civic Interests. As an indication of their surplus wealth, it is related that a not uncommon diversion was to invite a large, number of prominent citizens to dinner, when each guest would find as a further mark of hospitality, five or ten golden guineas beneath his plate. huey had I no strikes upon which to waste time 1 and money, so were able to indulge in these pleasing humours. What’s the use of being a baby if you cannot have the best Hosco outfit. Special Baby wear window display in window next Tea Rooms entrance. The daintiest of garments all marked at lowest net prices. The G. M. Ross Co., Ltd*