LANTERN LECTURE

Northern Advocate, 24 July 1923, Page 8

LANTERN LECTURE

CANADA DESCRIBED.

It was a favoured audience that gathered last evening in the Baptist Church, Whangarei. The occasion wns an illustrated lantern lecture on Canada by the Rev. F. C. Every. Lantern exhibitions are not alwlhys an unqualified success. The pictures ore at times dull and indistinct and the speaker likewise, but 110 such complaint could be made regarding the entertainment last evening. Mr Every is an ideal lecturer. He has personal knowledge of nis subject, having lived for some years ift tlmt greatest of the Empire's Dominions. . He has, too., the happy knack of imparting that knowledge in a bright, attractive wtiy that holds the attention.of young, and old,

For twp hours the audience gazed on r.'ally beautiful pictures,, .and listened to the ?acv and often humorous remarks of .the speaker. The lantern was iyianipulated by an operator of undoubted skill.

The lecture will be given in the Methodist Church at Kamo on Thursday evening and ,in the,, Presbyterian Church «t Hikuningi on Friday at

7.30 p.m.

j Severe frosts have been responsible for the bursting of water pipes all over the town (says a Reefton contemporary), with the result that the plumbers have been in great request. The statement that a duck was found frozen to a sheet of iron takes a lot of believing, but this was the case the other morning,, and hot water had to be resorted to to release the bird. « The plaintiff in a motor collision case at the Sratford Court, stated his lights were on after the aeeident. "How is it then," said counsel, "that you have charged defendant for a new set of globes?" Witness replied (says the "Port"), that the lights were intact wliei} the car was abandoned,, but next morning lie found the glasses had been stnashed- and' the globes removed' ,