LOCAL AND GENERAL

Northern Advocate, 16 November 1929, Page 8

LOCAL AND GENERAL

The shop of W. J. Wilson, grocer, Union Street, Auckland, was burglariously entered last night. The safe was bodily removed. It had been previously cleared of substantial cash takings by the proprietor before leaving. The new dairy factory erected at Moerewa by the Bay of Islands Dairy Company was officially opened by the Hon. J. G. Cobbe, Minister of Industries and Commerce today. A, full report of the Minister’s speech will appear in Monday’s issue. The first club night of the Whangarei Amateur Swimming Club was hold at the school baths last evening. There was a good attendance, although the weath.c 1 was not of the warmest. -No races were held, the evening being devoted to instructon by Professor D. B. Anderson. Races for the Club Cup will commence next week.

Speaking with regard to the prices obtained at the Wellington ’ wool sales vestorday. the Hon. J, G. Cobbe stat'd that they must be regarded as highly satisfactory. The finer sorts, if course, were suffering by reason ofj the competition of artificial silk, hut the coarser sorts had realised values in excess of the growers’ estimates. As a practical sheep farmer he regarded the sale as being better than antici-j pa ted.

The final musical recital of the Whangarei. Municipal Band’s. 1029 season will.be given in the Town Hall tomorrow evening, when a . selected programme of popular music, including recp.iest items, will be rendered. The band will he assisted by Miss M. Isherwood (soprano) and Mr A. Cam■ion (baritone). Short addresses will ' c delivered by his Worship the Mayor and the president of the hand, Mr D. A. .McLean.

.Specials at Wilson’s. . Splendid fitting Corsets and Corselettes from 4/0 to 10/0; Ladies’ Singlets, worth 3/Jl, for 1/3; Ladies’ Heavy Crepe Bloomers 1/0; Ladies’ Crepe Nightdresses 2/11; Linen Teatowelling 71d; Heavy Fuji Silk, worth 2/0, for 1/11; Grey Towels, 24 x 4(1, 2/0 pair; , Damask Clo'tlis, 20 x 20, 1/2, and White Nursery Flannelette, worth 101,d yard, for 0/11 dozen.

For being drunk in charge of a car, Percy Hector Roy was today fined £lO at the Hutt, in default 14 days’ imprisonment. His driving license was cancelled. '

Messrs Allen and Findlay have received a cable dated November 15, from London, which reads: Butter market quiet, New Zealand, salted, 17<ls to 1745; uncalled, 182 s to 188 s; Danish; 187 s; Australian, 168 s to 170 s. Cheese market steady, New Zealand, white, 03s to 04s; coloured, 02s to 03s. Orchards and gardens in Christcdiurch were severely damaged this morning as the result of 10.4 degrees of frost. In many cases fruit that had survived the hard frost on October 24 was destroyed. Some districts also report damage to crops by heavy rain, following the sudden change in the weather yesterday. In an undefended divorce petition at Woffington, William Alfred Whit tall v. Gertrude Alice Whittall, on the ground of adultery, the jury returned a verdict in favour of petitioner and agreed that he was entitled to recover £SOO from the co-respondent, Christopher Sydney Joseph Boland. A decree nisi, to he moved- absolute in thre-3 months, was granted.

The National Education Committee of Inquiry, of which Air A. J. Murdoch, M.P., is a member, will commence hearing evidence at Auckland on Monday. After sitting at that centre for two or three days, the committee will proceed to Hamilton, Rotorua, Pio Pio, New Plymouth, Masterton, Palmerston North and Wellington. At the conclusion of business in Wellington the committee proceeds to the South Island.

Today marks the closing date for entries in the stock sections for the Whangarei Agricultural and Pastoral .Society’s Spring -Show to be held at Kensington Park on November 27 and 28. No entries will be accepted'after 8 o’clock this evening, with the exetqv lion of those posted in Whangarei before 5 p.m. and • those posted in country districts must hoar the post mark of November 16. - .. ...378 The programme for the Orchestral Society’s Concert to, he held in the Town Hall next Wednesday, is advertised on the back page in this issue. It is certainly' one that should attract a good house. This will be. the-fina l concert for this season. Box plans now open at Blanshard’s. The fourth Annual Show of the Portland Horticultural and ' Industrial Society will be: held in the Public Hall, Portland, on Thursday, December 12, The schedules are now in circulation and may be obtained either from the secretary, Whangarei A. and P. Association, Messrs Arthur Yates and Co., Vine Street, or the secretary, Mr Eric Hay, Portland. Entries will close Friday, December 6. 664 Only address of J. W, Dobson, well-known Piano Tuner —4 Banff St. Phone 192.