News Of The Day

Northern Advocate, 11 February 1943, Page 2

News Of The Day

National Savings Quota Results Last week G 7 towns attained their National Savings quotas. Provincial centres that .were successful were Invercargill, Napier, New Plymouth, Oarnaru and Wanganui.

Last Respects

In the Maunu Cemetery today the mortal remains of the late Mr. Harold M. Pomery were laid to rest alongside those of a beloved son who had predeceased him. The family, intimate friends and members ur the “Northern Advocate” staff, with whom he had always been such a good companion, were represented at Miller’s Chapel and at the graveside, where Rev. A. E. Prtbble conducted the service.

Runaway Horse /Whangarei residents were alarmed yesterday when a runaway horse careered madly up Bank Sireet, narrowly missing several cars and damaging a bicycle. The horse had been tied by a short length of rope to the limb ot a tree in a vacant Clyde Street section. Apparently the animal had been alarmed and the branch, which was rotten, broke. The trailing branch terrified it and it galloped madly through the town with the branch swinging behind it. A bicycle was hit and the fi’ome bent. The horse, which suffered minor cuts and bruises, was caught at the top of Bank Street by two men who went to considerable risk to secure it.