THURSDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1919. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Northern Advocate, 23 October 1919, Page 2

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1919. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Swimming is a local sport that merits every encouragement. The local club has worked hard to provide an outlet for this perfection of exorcise and pleasure. The annual club meoting to-night (Friday) under the enthusiastic direction of the secretary, Mr Tibbits, and the progressive committee should be well attended.

A splendid pictorial budget is contained in this week's issue of tho "Sporting and Dramatic Review." It is particularly strong on the racing side and covers the Auckland Trotting Club's spring gathering, the Dunedin Jockey Club meeting, the Randwick contests, and the Whangarei meeting, together with other interesting photographs relating to the sport of kings. The miscellaneous section also embraces an attractive series.

The Canterbury Chamber of Commerce forwarded to the Wellington Central Chamber of Commerce a remit it proposed to bring before the next conference of chambers of commerce on the subject of railway construction and management. The southern chamber maintains that the railway service of New Zealand is wasteful, unbusinesslike, and financially unsound, and recommended that the control of the railways be placed in the hands of a nonpolitical board, consisting of the Minister of Railways and seven other members,- and went as far as to nominate the various industrial, commercial, farming, and economic bodies which should have representation on tin board. The president Mr C. M. Luke; said it was a big thing jto say whether or not they should revert to commissioner or board control. Ho proposed that copies of Canterbury's proposal should be typed and sent' out to members of the council for them "to ruminate upon." This course was agreed

Look who's here—Charlie Chaplin in '' His New Job,'' Britannia to-night. 414