LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Northern Advocate, 29 May 1925, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Next Wednesday, the King's Birthday, will be a postal holiday. The Whangarei Post Office will be closed \ all day, and mails for despatch will j close at 8 a.m. There will be no delivery by postmen, but correspondence I will be delivered over the counter at ' the post office betweei-i .7 and 8 p.m. on I Tuesday. The telegraph. hours, will be 9 to 10 a.m. and 7 to-8 p.m., and the telephone • service •■ continue afe usual. Last' evtening a Wrn'of tori snooker {payers frqm Whangarei, .visited Hikurangi and played matches against the local representatives. Whangarei won r six games and Hikurangi four, the .winners scoring an. aggregate of ■472 against 420. Results of the games won by Whangarei are: H. S. MaeKenzie beat S. McKonzie, 39—38;; Donagliue beat Beale, 51—47; T. Conaghan beat Ward, 49—29; H. Griffen beat Robinson, 69—22; M. Goink beat P. Little, 69—31; Heta beat J. Rutherford, 66—29. Hikurangi won in the following games: Jackson bent Bartlett, —22; Lomas boat Kessell, 43 39; E. Scott bent W. Thompson, 64—28; R. Scott beat M. Whitelaw, 62—40.

Advice was received today from j Tutukaka that the Kumi and Lady Eva, with a barge, were in that harbour, the weather being too bad from the east to enable salvage operations of the fishing boat Marsden- to be carried on at the Poor Knights. j This morning Mr. W. D. J. Cona- | ghan, secretary of the Whangarei Rug-

by Union, received an entry from the Auckland University Bugby Football Club, for a senior team in the seven-a---side tournament to be held at Kensington Park on Wednesday next. This entry' brings the total number of teams engaged up to 43, and the first contest is set down for 9.45 a.m. The Whangarei Municipal Silver Band "will ••be ; in attendance and luncheon will be Obtainable at the Y.W.C.A. booth. Tlie Waiata Society has decided to produce the oratorio "Elijah" in the Whangarei Town Hall on June 30 and July 1. The oratorio has been in rehearsal for many weeks, Mr. Albert Dobson having a large chorus at work, and the Tuesday and Thursday rehearsals are well attended. The committee has selected three soloists, Mrs. A. Dobson (soprano), Mr. A. H. Bipley, of Auckland (tenor) and Mr. B. G. Hosking (bass), and is endeavouring to arrange for a contralto soloist. 'There was a greatly increased attendance at the euchre social promoted by the Whangarei Lodge of Druids last evening, 12 tables being fully occupied. • The ladies' prize, which was donated by Mr. Iv. G. M. Kelly, was won by Mrs. Kemp with 15$ games out of a possible 17. Mr. K. Lacey's trophy for the men's division was annexed by Mr. E. H. Osborne with 15 games. Consolation prizes fell to the lot of Mrs. Eeilly and Itr. Postlewaite.

A correspondent states that when the Waiotu river, on the main North Road, was in flood last week the occupants of a motor car v ;in the car through the shallow water near Waiotu bridge, broke the railway fence, anl drove the-car down along the permanent way, and across the railway bridge near Waiotu station. They just cleared the railway gates five minutes? ahead of the Auckland express. watched this hair-raising stunt with feelings rather mixed," he writes. "So much for "our splendid roads, when motorists have to descend to this kind of tricks to dodge the water and get through. Had the express arrived while the car was on the bridge it would have meant derailment and probable loss of life, on account of the curves on this part of the line." The attention of the public is drawn to an advertisement in today's issue of a sale, which is being held by Messrs. F. and W. Wakelhi at their offices, Bank Street, Whangarei, r<t 11 a.m. tomorrow, of a property situated in Kirikiri Road, Whangarei, and occupied by Mrs. F. M. .Jenkins, which consists of over an acre of land and a 4-roomed dwelling and outbuildings thereon. The property is being sold on behalf of the second mortgagee and there is a first mortgage of £400. 759 The Noted House for Wools and Woollens.-—Dobson's Drapery, "Famous for Low Prices." 635