DISTRICT NEWS

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLIX, Issue XLIX, 6 January 1916, Page 7

DISTRICT NEWS

WAIiMEA WEST

> SOWERS" "HAND SALE OF WORK

The< Waimea West Sowers' Baud' hekl a very successful wile of work on December 23rd in the local .schoolroom. Stalls were 2 :,l 'c« i ided over by Hip following : Work stall. Misses M. Palmer and T. Hunter; fniuy stall. Misses Rita and Ruby Palnn-i-*; kitchen stall. Misses E. Palmer and 11. Hunter; sweets stall, Miss F. Palmer; bran tub. Misses E. and M. Palmer.. M. Walker, and M. Hickman.

The pupils of the school hadcompiled a newspaper. "The Waimea West. Ga-zette"—-which caused some amusement, and nnder a small charge of one penny for perusal brought in a few shillings for the fund.

- Refreshments, including afternoon tea, fruit salad, and supper, were obtainable and were under the capable management of Misses A. Ford, H. Palmer, and B. Walker.

During the evening competitions were held! some few unsold articles being given as prizes. The Sowers' Band ranoered an enjoyable service of son c entitled "The Sandwich Men."' The secretary/ Miss Edith Fowl, is to be congratulated an the organisation o-F so successful a function which, though the first of its kind held here, netted some £l2, of which £lO is to go towards the support of the Band's missionary in Southern India. Miss Smith, £1 to"the Maori Mission Fund, and £1 for the nucleus of a fund for a future sale. . At the sale a bov s suit was sold lor the benefit of the 'Rod Cress Fund and realised 14s. WAIMEA WEST ROAD BOARD. The ordinarv monthly meeting of the Waimea West' Road Board was' held on Tuesday last. Present: Messrs W. L. Palmer" (chairman)," Challies. and Ford. Mr Tomlinson was granted leave of absence for the meeting. Correspondence was read from the Receiver, of Land Revenue notifying that "thirds" money had been paid into the Board's credit." From R. H. Turner complaining that gorse on the road was not his. From the Appleby Lands Company asking for a road to be opened up.—Rfisolved- 'that the Board visit the locality and interview the Engineer. The chairman reported that he had attended the deputation to the Hon. Mr Fraser, Minister for Public Works, on his recent yisifc to Nelson. * • A small account was- passed for payment.

Dr. John Pollen, lecturing before the Anglo-Russian Literary Society in London, said that the personal relations between the Russian officer and, his men were much mare intimate than' was the case'with our army. It was no infrequent, thing to hear a Russian officer call/ his men by such terms as "Sweet Pigeon." or "Duck of > Dove.'' The Russian soldier never. grumbled, and he never knew what it was to be beaten.

With the birth of four boys, a record that;- will probably .surpass any other ih. the world wis "established by '• Mra Oaither. -Dri-wry, of Scencer , County-, Ken-tuck, on November 5. Mrs D v rO!wry, who is■-about 30 years old, is the irrbther of nine children, seven, of whom are living. Eighteen months ago ffve'ohildren were born to Mrs Drcwry,,. three boys,and two girls. The girls died, but the boys-arc doing nicely. - '-

One of the first trades in .Britain to feel the effect of war time economy, one would', think, would be the jewellers; but,"apparently, it- is not so. One firm, in anaverto'a .recent inqniry regarding cameo brooches, had to write back that it had not a. single.■-.oris left in stock. The daily orders were such that they kept all the firm's few remaining workmen so fully employed that there was no chance of making up stock. , As a cqnseo/uence wages have gone up. Skilled: men, are earnintr 45s to 60s a week now, as compared with 35s to 40s before, the war..