News Of The Day

Northern Advocate, 16 August 1940, Page 4

News Of The Day

Interest-Free Loans. The interest-free loans total of £2.475,978 includes £IOOO from the Mangatoki Co-operative Dairy Company for the duration of the war and six months after.

Before and After

"When people come along to get married they probably haven’t got their wits about them quite as well as they have a bit later on,” said Mr Justice Blair in the Supreme Court at New Plymouth recently. * A- sj: * Useful Full-Backs. In a Rugby match between Wanganui third grade and Rangitikei fourth grade representatives last Saturday each full-back scored a try. Rangitikei's only points came from its fullback’s try, but the Wanganui full-back not only scored a try but kicked three goals as well. Holing in One. To soften the penalty of “shouting" for all players on the course, which is the privilege of the golfer who holes in one, some Taranaki golf clubs have adopted insurance schemes. Two New Plymouth golfers holed their tee shots last weekend, but only one received his club's insurance benefit. Ironically, the other, though he is the branch manager of an insurance firm, had not joined the scheme, and so paid the penalty without relief.

A Cat’s Capers,

A big bluish cat. apparently demonstrating its annoyance at having been locked in overnight, played havoc in the display window of a hat shop in Heretaunga Street, Hastings, the other night. Its activities in the lighted window proved the source of amusement to home-going theatre patrons, for hats and stands had been thrown into confusion, giving employees in the shop an unexpected job when they arrived fur business the next mornin o’

School Rugby Football. Convent won the Whangarei Primary Schools Rugby junior championship on Wednesday by defeating Whangarei by six points to nil. Four teams, the other two being Hora Hora and Whau Valley, competed. Convent and Whangarei were even at the enc! of two rounds, Convent winning the play-off. In the country competition, which was a knock-out between Kamo, Convent A and B, Maunu and Onerahi. Convent won the final yesterday against Kamo by six points to three after extra time had been played.

Small incomes enjoin the necessity of practising economy, but whether your income be large or small Henry Wilson’s Sale of a Waikato Stock will make it go further. Don’t miss the big bargains forward for this week-end shoppers. Every buyer is assured of solid savings. W. 9