GENERAL NEWS

Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 6867, 23 March 1929, Page 6

GENERAL NEWS

Niagara loft Suva for Auckland at 1 p.m. yesterday. Maunganui left Sydney for Auckland at 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon and Marama an hour later for Wellington. The annual meeting of the Manawatu Golf Club held last evening concluded by members standing in silence out of respect to the late Mr. Charles Kennedy, of Napier, a life member, who passed away recently. At last night’s annual meeting of the Manawatu Golf Club it was announced that the iirst outside entry for the Easter tournament was received from Mr. T. H. Horton, the New Zealand amateur champion. Dr. J. H. Thwigg, who was formerly house surgeon at Palmerston North hospital and who underwent an operation for appendicitis recently, which incapacitated him for two months, is convalescing in Palmerston I'JotfTß. With regard to the glare reported off Ivapiti on Thursday evening, inquiries show that three launches that went out from Island Bay are safe. All the coastal vessels that were anywhere in the vicinity have been accounted for. A possible explanation is that the light came from Futurist, which was trawling in the stait at the time. The choir of St. Peter’s Church, Terrace End, will sing the cantata “Olivet to Calvary’’ at the evening service at 7 o'clock to-morrow. The solos will bo taken by Mrs H. L. McGregor, Miss Edith Coles and Messrs A. It. McKegg and A. ltobotham. Mr. H. S. Portoous will bo at the organ, and the congregation arc invited to join in the singing of hymns before the service.

How many people know tho fire brigade telephone number or where the nearest street alarm box is? This question was placed before the Palmerston North Fire Board yesterday when one member instanced tho case of a person whose premises wero on lire, motoring all around the town to iind « street box when a brigade sub-sta-tion was opposite his door. An instance was also given of a shopkeeper who also made diligent search for a street box which he passed every morning on his way to business and who also quite forgot about tho telephone in his own shop.