LOCAL AND GENERAL

Northern Advocate, 16 September 1932, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

The Treasury lias notified the Thames Borough Council that the borough's proportion of the goldfields revenue for August was’ £2O 2/3. A Sydney cable message says that GKid” Como, boxer, sailed by the Niagara yesterday for Auckland. Probably he will meet. Archie Hughes in Auckland. The catalogue for the fourth annual pedigree Jersey bull sale, to bo held by the Whangarei Jersey Club on September 27, has been issued. Tt consists of over 63 pages and contains a number of excellent illustrations. The lenf.alogue was printed at the “ Advocate iß >. Office. It is anticipated that work on the subsidence of the. railway line near Kopua will be finished today. There are 100 men on the job. Although no official explanation has been made, the theory of residents is that the old approach to the bridge has been undermined by the diversion of a spring, which since the February earthquake of last year has been flowing at a much diminished volume. The subsidence is fairly considerable, being about 00 feet long and -10 feet deep. If you must economise, then get a Tailor-made. Now Suitings arriving this week for spring and summer. — Geo. Hcndy, High-class Tailor, for both Ladies and Gentlemen, Corner Bank and Vine Streets.

The Whangarei Rugby Union’s £7s] art union, which was to have been drawn last Saturday, will be drawn tomorrow evening. The. following will represent tho l r ora Horn .juniors in a. match against Dargaville at Dargaville tomorrow. — Hollows, Bevington, Redwood, Conaghan, Skinner, Ford, Hoey, Pattison, Conaghau, Courtney, Alison, Roos, Penny, Redwood, Storey. The team trill leave at mid-day. A representative* meeting of memheis of Whangarei local and sports bodies was convened by tho Commercial Travellers’ Association last evening to organise a concert in aid of the Whangarei brigade of the St. .John Ambulance. It was decided that the commercial travellers’ concert party should stage an entertainment next month. The residue of the estate of the late Mr ’ Frederick George, of Avondale, labourer, who died on September 2, has boon bequeathed to the International Bible Students' Association oi Brooklyn, New York, an organisation founded by the late Pastor Russell. Tho estate has been valued at £750, and several private bequests arc provided for in tho will. “People are given just now to think that times are always going to be as they are. After a depression like the present, the tendency is. always for prices to rise. If Whangarei goes , ahead as we expect, the land has great potential value.’’ Mr J. E. Holmes at the Harbour Board meeting today, opposing the. leasing of sections near the railway station. Arrangements have been made for Mr Don Bradman, the famous Australian batsman, to speak from 2YA at 7.50 on M-onday evening. He will talk for a quarter of an hour, his subject being: 11 Tho English team which is to visit Australia.’’ Recognising the- general interest that will be , created by such a talk, tho Broadcasting Board has made arrangements whereby all the YA stations will undertake a re-broadcast. “There is an unlimited and unsatisfied demand for good springers in this district,” a farming authority told a “Northern Advocate” representative. “During the past month two-year-old heifers of the right type have doubled in value, and prices of £lO and over arc being offered. Buyers have been waiting for the grass to come away. At current rates, heifers are quite a good selling proposition, and* - after grazing has been allowed, provide a good profit. On the other hand, those who have kept beef and have fat steers, anything up to five years old, are being offered in tho vicinity of £o and arc losing money heavily.” You cannot be - a resident of. North land without knowing Henry Wilson’s where drapery and clothing needs car bo purchased for the smallest outlay oi cash. At the moment. Wilson’s Spring and Summer display is attracting wide spread attention. It is easily the besi value portrayed of newept fashions Also keenest prices in New Towels Sheetings, Damask Cloths and Curtail Nets, etc.