LOCAL AND GENERAL

Opunake Times, 19 August 1932, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

13e at the euchre and crib party in St. Patrick's Hall tonight. Usual good prizes and supper. The courage of this famous body of soldiers-of-fortune as depicted in "Beau Ideal," coming to the New Theatre on Tuesday and Wednesday, taxescredulity. The British motor-boat racer, Mr. Kaye Don, arrived in New York on Tuesday by the Majestic. He expressed the opinion that there was no limit to the speed that might be achieved on the water. He is to race Miss England 111. against Mr. Gar Wood's American boat.

Commencing- on Monday next j there will be daily practices for' children wishing 1 to take part in the fancy dress dance to be held on September 2nd. A report from Englewood (New Jersey) states that a son was born to Colonel and Mrs. Charles Lindbergh on Tuesday at the Morrow home. Prize-winners at a euchre held at Pihama on Wednesday niglrt were: Ladies Ist, Miss E. Eiley, 2nd Mrs. I. Guild; men's Ist Mr. H. Mellow, 2nd Mr. F. Knowles. Eeaders are requested to note that a meeting of returned soldiers will be held in the Power Board office on Monday night nest the object being to form a local association.

At the New Plymouth Supreme Court on Wednesday, H. E. Lodge was sentenced to 18 months' imprisonment for theft of Opunake Harbour Board and Town Board payments.

The weather during the past fortnight has been ideal for harvesting in western Canada, but there has been a further decline in the yield prospects, states the Dominion bureau statistician.

See "Compromised" at the v New Theatre to-night or tomorrow night, and see whether a Cinderella can expect to find happiness with a Prince Charming whose father's fortune runs into millions.

C. T. Prosser, property salesman, reports the sale of Mr. Leo Mclteynolds house of 7 rooms with all conveniences standing on J-acre section situated in Fox Street, Opunake, to Mr. Eli Taylor, farmer of Pungarehu. "What is the duty of the match Committee?" was a question addressed to the president, Mr. G. W. O'Connell, at the recent meeting of the Northern Waikato Bowling Association. "The duty of the match committee is to take orders from the secretary; lie is the boss," was the reply which was received with loud laughter. A prominent Wellington land agent told a Dominion representative that on an average bedaily are made at his office for houses and flats. Of these, about one-third are prospective purchasers. At least 60 applications each week are, made for new bungalows. The agent states there is a good demand for modern houses. In reply to one particular advertisement offering a bungalow for sale he received over 120 applications. A resident of London, writing to a friend in Hamilton, says: "We have been hearing far too much of the sordid case in which Mrs. Barney is charged with the murder of Michael Scott (she was subsequently acquitted). The scenes at the opening of the trial reminded me very much of a Hollywood first night. People fought outside the Old Bailey to gain admittance to the Courtroom. The police had to disperse a queue that had gathered at 8 o'clock the previous night. Think of it/'

A White Leghorn hen was noticed at a Papakura poultry farm last week to be standing about in a listless manner. It was seen apparently to have only the lower portion of its beak. On closer examination by the owner he found to his astonishment that the top part of the fowl's beak was stuck in the bird's throat. The owner got the beak in place and within twentyfour hours the bird was eating as usual. How the hen got its beak into sucli a precarious position, the owner has not the slightest idea. Writing to a friend in Hamilton, a London resident says: "Mr. Ramsay MacDonald has returned from Lausanne. One is tempted again to wonder what actually took place there—if France has really agreed to take less than her pound of flesh. France, politically, I loathe and detest. She is the stumblingblock in the regenerations of Europe. France is preventing a recovered Germany. France is not desirous of seeing a prosperous Germany; she is very keen to always have Germany at her beck and call. But the time is coming when Germany will reassert herself and throw off the yoke that France has deliberately put round her neck."