LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Northern Advocate, 2 December 1921, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Advice has been received by the Whangarei office of Dalgety and Company that the Auckland wool sale, previously announced to take place on the sth inst., has b'cen postponed until the 9th.

This morning Cadets from all part 3 of the district proceeded to the Otaika rifle range where the annual shooting competitions for Government prize money were begun, and will be continued to-morrow, when Territorials and returned soldiers' matches will be fired.

! An unusually well* attended meeting cf members of the Whangarei Haxbour Bsgatta Association took place last evening, at which it was shown that the executive has arrangements well forward for the aquatic carnival to take place at Onerahi on Monday, January 2. The programme was fully approved, it was decided that tii<? secretary, Mr C. Maloney, should take entries as soon as the poster programmes have been distributed, whicli will be within a few days.

'Wallace dnd Company wish to notify their customers and the general public that they are bringing out a special list of cheap prices for all Xmas g03.1s within the course of a few days. This list will include all the new season's fruits, viz, raisins, currants, sultanas, prunes, apples, tinned fruits, etc., also a large range of necessary groceries for Christmas trader and last, but not least a special cut for their famous Christmas hams. Customers would be well advised to hold their Christmas orders until they see this special list as some of the prices are phenomenal and absolute bargains. They have arriving large stocks of reasonable goods for the Christmas trade, and every cusf.onsr can rely on getting the best quality of new season's goods at out-of-the-or-tlinary prices. 34.7

Members of the Whangarei Boxing Association who have not paid their subscriptions for the current yoar should hasten to do, as only to financial members is the privilege extended of reserving ringside seats for the amateur carnivals, the first of which takes place in the Town Hall next Fridaj*, and the box plan for which is open at ! Mr Abbott's Allies Saloon. Nothing can be gained by delaying payment, as the association is an incorporated society and as such subscriptions can be sued for in the end, meanwhile the privileges of membership cannot be taken advantage of by unfinanciil members. Following the carnival on Friday next will be the North Auckland championship meeting early in the new year and other .amateur tournaments, the executive having decided to iefiain from staging professional fights for a period of 18* months. In addition to securing efficient service you are supporting a returned soldier in Dobson, Fiano Tuning and Repair Specialist, 184

"Judgment," "recommend," and "allege" are the most difficult words in daily use for the average person to spell, according to educators at the University of Pennsylvania. They say this has been determined by the study of 1,400,000 spellings in 84 cities.

The fondness that English women have for the cigarette was evidenced by the appearance of the promenade deck of the lonic after dinner on the night of her arrival at Wellington this week. Fully fifty women, young and old, were to be seen puffing away with apparent satisfaction.

Vessels are due within range of wire less stations to-night as follows:: — Awanui —Whangape,' Maheno, Koromiko, Manuka, Iquitis, Manurowa; in range after 12.30 a.m. —Tofua, Port Victor; Auckland —Wingatui, Westmeath; Awarua —Wanaka, Canad:a:i Pioneer, Sussex, Paloona; Wellington— Mararoa, Mapourika, Wahine, Mahia, Piako, Waikouaiti.

Recently Mr F. W. Reed presented the Whangarei Rowing Club' with a handsome silver cup for competition, leaving the fixing of conditions and the special ' class to which it should be applied to the executive. As the club has two .stumps on order to arrive towards the end of February, it has been tacitly decided that the Reed Cup will become the chief trophy locally for single Sculls races.

Egypt has always been called the land of the river. But for that wonderful stream it must be as the desert. It* rise is the year's indication of prosperity, and from earliest times was most carefully recorded. Well ovar 4000 years ago one of Egypt's greatest kings cut channels which formed an enormous lake, still existing, a reservoir which by sluices and dykes enabled a regulation of the flow of water and enormously increased the fertility of the land. It remained for the greatest engineering science of modern days to continue the same purpose by the magnificent dam at Assuam. Of this land and its mighty works Colonel Mackosy will speak in the Town Hall on Wednesday, December 14.

A fine example of that spirit of generous comradeship, so characteristic of colonials, was shown recently in a country settlement in Hawke's Bay (states.the "Tribune"). One of the settlers bad a most unfortunate run of bad luck. While his wife was lying seriously ill in the hospital his home was burned down, and he and his children were left without shelter. It was then that the neighbouring settlors came to the Tescue. They provided all the labour for a new house, find sulbicribed sufficient money to ena:ble him to pay his wife's hospital exp'enses iand to provide for the comfort of his little 'ones. Such practical charity cannot bo over-praised, for it represents in the truest sense " the milk of human kindness."

| The Invercargill correspondent of ithe ' 1 Otago Daily Times'' reports that Mr Stanley Hall, an Invercargill resident, and engaged in the fruit .business, has returned after a fortnight in 'Central Otago, convinced tliat unless unforeseen events occur, that district is going to experience a record fruit season as regards quantity. There are, he said, exceptionally heavy crops of apples, plun.s, and apricots. -So heavy are the supplies of apples that he is satisfied htfrne consumption will rot absorb them, and that export will be nocessary to ensure a "profitable return to the growers. The peach and chers- crops are light, however, but strawberries are being grown extensively. The season is about three weeks ahead of last year. The growers are being troubled a little with leaf curl (on peaches only), woolly aphis, and mildew, and they are ibusy with the spray to keep these diseases under.