MILTON NOTES.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19963, 3 December 1926, Page 10

MILTON NOTES.

(From Ode Own Correspondent.) MILTON, December 2, GIRL GUIDES. The investiture of the second company of Milton Girl Guides took place on Tiiesday evening in the Masonic Hall, when the district commissioner (Mrs Vidal) enrolled ■ Miss Hislop as captain. Miss C. B. Hollick as lieutenant, also the individual members of the company. METHODIST CHURCH CARNIVAL. For several years past the congregation of the Milton Methodist Church has conducted a Christmas tree carnival and sale of work on the Milton summer show days, to supplement the church funds. As a result of these annual special efforts the church coffers generally benefit to the extent of about £l7O, and this weeks carnival maintained 'the average. Several stalls and competitive novelties served to attract liberal patronage, with the result that the gross takings for the afternoon and evening’s festivities amounted to £l9O, whilst the expenses are not expected to exceed £2O. For the success attending the function great credit is due to the stallholders, assistants, and general workers. The following is a list of the principal stallholders: —Sewing stalls fancy, Mesdames W. Gatman and J. Cockerill; plain, Mesdames H. Wells and J. Bowie. Produce stall: Mesdames Wright and A. Littlejohn. Jumble stall: Misses Sharpe and N. Wright. Christmas tree: Members of Girls’ Club, under Mrs J. Bowie. Fruit salads, etc.: Mrs C. R. Sheat. Refreshment room: Mrs W. Reay. Fairy well: Misses N. Wells and Logan. THE SUMMER SHOW. A few additions to the prize list and some slight alterations are necessary to complete the report on the Tokomairiro Farmers’ Club’s sixty-first annual summer show, held on Tuesday. The remainder of the competitions were won as follows: Best bareback rider over jumps. Five entries—W. Kirk (Waitepeka) 1, M. Shine (Dunedin) 2. Special prize to the rider of the winning animal in the best hunting horse class —W. Kirk. Messrs Kain Bros’, silver cup, to the winner of the best hunter, to be won twice —Calder and Cochrane. The club’s sheep-guessing competition attracted good competition, £l2 3s being realised. The correct dressed weight of the fat sheep (931 b) was guessed by Messrs John Cameron and D. Hassett, who divide the first and second prizes. Three others—Messrs H. Wilkinson, H. Marshall, and Mrs J. Gordon —guessed within Jib, 19 within Jib, and five within lib of the correct weight. The guessing throughout was remarkably close.