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Manawatu Times, Volume LIII, Issue 6632, 11 June 1928, Page 6

Ncj Ing is too heavy or too hot for thieves of the type that now infest Dunedin, declares a local paper. The other day a carter took to its owner’s place a large and expensive gramophone, and, as the occupant had run out for a little while, ho loft the instrument on the verandah, with the result that it is now listed with the missing. With the near approach of the session of Parliament, interest is being revived in the debatable question of “summer time’’ (says the Church Gazette). So far as Evensong on Sunday last summer was concerned, the putting forward of the clock did not seem to make any difference generally in the attendance of worshippers. One advantage noted was the saving in the charge of lighting owing to the evening service being hold in the sunshine. It is not likely that there will be any opposition to another trial of (ho reform next summer, so far as the churches arc concerned.

With the object, of preventing membership leakage and for organisation purposes, the Manawatu Provincial executive of the .Farmers’ Union proposes to set up a special committee to deal specifically with these matters. The chairman (Mr 0. P. Lynch) made reference to a membership campaign at the annual conference in, Feilding recently and this move of the executive is a result of suggestions ho then put forward. The formation of the first football club in New Zealand sixty years ago was recalled last week. On May 30, ISOS, the following advertisement appeared in the Nelson Evening Mail: — “Gentlemen interested in the formation of a football club for the ensuing winter are requested to meet at the Nelson Hotel this evening, at eight o’clock.’’ The meeting was duly hold, a club formed, and Messrs .T. H. Taylor, Greenfield, and Stewart were appointed a committee to receive subscriptions and names.