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Manawatu Times, Volume LVI, Issue 5566, 3 February 1931, Page 10

J. C. H UTTON > LTDWELLINGTON. JgUYERS of Prime Bacw iera, Porkers and Choppers. Buyer: MIL S. LIGGINS. Phono 7135, Palmerston North. TRUCKING DATES: ASHHUliST.—Wednesday, 28th. SHANNON.— Thursday, 29tli.

FOR SALE AS GOING CONCERN. 500 ACRES, Pahiatua District, Government Lease 31 years to run. 75 acres flat, balance undulating and easy hills. Good dwelling, c. 1., li. and c. water and all necessary outbuildings. Stock comprises 700 sheep, GOO lambs, 80 head cattle, horses and implements. PRICE: £2,000 including Stock and Chattels, I’or further particulars apply N.Z. FARMERS’ CO-OP. DISTRIBUTING COY., LTD, PELL DING AND MASTERTON.

TO LET AND FOR SALE SALE, Austin 7 Tourer; excellent running order. Cheap for cash. Write “590,” ‘‘Times” Office. Tjxjli. SALE, Ford lialf-ton truck. Price £25; also tent and 11 y. Apply 22 Fcatherston Street. SALE, late model Sedan Ckevrolet. This car is like new. £175. Call in and inspect.—Ford Motors Manuwatu Ltd.

TENDERS. ppENDERS addressed to tho Secretary and marked as suck, are invited up to Noon on SATURDAY, 7tli FEBRUARY, 1931, for tlic painting work at Manawatu Club, Church. Street. Specification may be seen at the Club. E. V. SPEAR, Secretary.

MADGE M OT O R S ervice Regular Services to < — FEILDING FOSTON MOUTOA POH ANGINA . .SHANNON Complete Time-Table on Application. SATURDAY SPECIALS TO FOSTON: Leave Post Office 10.45 p.m. Subway Main Street, 10.50 p.m. Enquire re Special Return Fares on Foxton Service every Saturday Evening. 1 (Valid Day of Issue Only). SUNDAY SPECIALS FOSTON BEACH, during Summer Season. Leave Post Office 9 a.m. Leave Beach .. 5.45 p.m. Reduced Special Return Fare 5/-. Seats Booked Head Office: 40a Rangitiltci Street, Palmerston North.

1931 SPECIALS and Confectionery Business, excellent position, with bungalow and shop; owner will sell or lease as a going concern, or at valuation. Fruit and Confectionery Business, shop and living accommodation, easy rent, stock, plant, furniture in shop, etc. PRICE £450. Gent’s S-roomed residence, best part of City, 10 minutes from Square; will sell cheap, or lease. Owner left City. BARRAUD & ABRAHAM LTD.

World’s Record lake SHARK OF 798 POUNDS. LONDON ANGLER'S SUCCESS. The world’s record ruako shark was captured off Percy Islet, Cape Brett, on January 23 by Mr. H. White-Wick-ham, the noted London angler, dishing from the launch Ozone. Weighing 7CSlb.,.tho fish was lOSlb. heavier thau tho record shark caught by Lord Grimtkorpe in January, 1928, and was lift. Gin. in length with a girth of 6ft. Sin. The dish captured by Lord Grimthorpo measured 10ft. Biu. and had a girth of sft. Gfin. Mr* White-Wickham’s launch was drifting gently off Piercy Islet when tlib huge mako took the bait. It put up a strong light and provided thrilling sport before it was successfully landed after a struggle of nearly* an hour. Tho iish was sent to the authorities of the Auckland Museum. Mr White-Wiekham, who has visited tho deep-sea lishing grounds at the Bay of Islands regularly during tho past five or six years, has several other good catches to his credit. Previous to the world’s record thresher shark weighing 9151 b., caught by Mr Stanley Ellis, of Hamilton, in March, 1929, Mr WhitcWickham held the world’s record for a thresher with a lish of 8321 b. In January of 1928 he secured a record broadbill swordfish weighing 6731 b., which exceeded by 91b. tho record formerly held by Mr Zano Grey, and during the 1928 season he secured a record hammerhead shark weighing 4001 b. Last year Mr Whitc-Wickham claimed to have caught the smallest make of the season with a fish weighing t'nlv 101 b.

My “Uncle George” Lord Macduff, - the young son of Prince and .Princess Arthur of Connaught, had just learned the words of the National Anthem, and he told his nurse that he wanted to seo ‘our noble King. ’ One day, when the King was walking in the grounds at Bagshot with the Duke of Connaught, Lord Macduff was told by his nurse, “Look, there is the King, with grandfather;” “Oh, no,” said little Lord Macduff, “that is not the King. That is my Uncle George.’ *