THE OTAKI MAIL. MONDAY, APRIL 23, 1934. LOCAL & GENERAL.

Otaki Mail, 23 April 1934, Page 2

THE OTAKI MAIL. MONDAY, APRIL 23, 1934. LOCAL & GENERAL.

There will be no issue of 'the “Otaki Mail” on Wednesday (Anzac Day).

A light shock of earthquake was felt in Otaki and district at about 5 a.m. on Saturday.

A donation of £lO toward cost of levelling the play area of the Paraparaumu Domain was made by the Hutt County Council at a meeting on Friday.

The quarterly meeting of the Otaki Fire Board will be held on Thursday evening. There will be a parade of members of the brigade.

An address on unemployed matters will be given by Mr. Lark in the Cosy theatre on Monday night. Mr. O’Rourke (Mayor) will occupy the chair. A collection will be taken up to defray expenses.

“The Man from Toronto," presented in Otaki some time ago with marked success by the All Saints’ players, is to be screened at the Cosy theatre, Otaki, on Thursday, but this time by Gainsborough Pictures with an all-, British caste, headed by the girl with the great personality, Jessie Matthew's.

The Waimeha Football Club will hold a dance in the meeting-house on Friday (27th) when the latest dances will bo demonstrated by Mr. James Cottier, late of Shearers’ school of dancing, Sydney, and partner from Miss Margaret O’Connor's studio, Wellington. There will also be several novelty dances.

A meeting of returned soldiers of Otaki and district will be held at the Anglican Hall to-morrow night at S o’clock to make arrangements for attendance at service on Anzac Day. Colonel Young, who is at present in the district, will be present and will be pleased to meet all returned men. This is an opportunity returned soldiers should take advantage of.

Mrs. C. Jones, of Rangiuru, was among the successful exhibitors at the Wellington Society’s show on iWednesday, when she won Mrs. Knox Gilmer’s trophy for the best collection of cut blooms. Mrs. Jones w r as also successful in winning Mr. Shailers’ special prize, secured first also for collection of three varieties, first for three cactus dahlias, and first for pom-poms; a record to be proud of.

Special services in connection with. ) Anzac Day will be held on Wednesday when all are invited by the Mayor (Mr. T. O’Rourke) to take part in a memorial service at 2 p.m. All are asked to assemble at 1.45 p.m. at the State School grounds and join the children in a procession to the Soldiers' memorial, or if wet to the Cosy theatre. Returned soldiers are invited to attend, and the general public are asked to place wreaths on the cenotaph. <

A party of Presbyterian Ministers from Wellington will be visiting Otaki this afternoon and will conduct a service in the Presbyterian Church tonight at 7.30. Included in the party are the following: The Rev. A* A. Armstrong (Seatoun), Rev. E. J. Orange (Kilbirnie), Rev. J. Hubbard, M.A., 8.D., (Kelburn) and the Rev. J. H. McKenzie, M.A., clerk of Assembly, also Rev. Dr. lan Fraser (Levin). The address will be given by the Rev. J. H. McKenzie.

The Otaki Pharmacy has been taken over by Mr. and Mrs. W. Wilson, of Wellington. Mrs. Wilson is a fully qualified pharmaceutical chemist and has had a wide experience in oil branches of the profession. Before coming to Otaki Mrs. Wilson was a dispenser at Wellington Public Hospital and also at pharmacies in several provincial centres. Optical repair work and photographic knowledge arc specialties and Mr. and Mrs. Wilson hope to have the patronage of the Otaki public.

Nominations for the Otaki State School committee close to-night. Buy Listerine tooth paste and ask for a free mask. Tomatoes and potatoes are for sale, by Mr. J. C. Meyer, of Rangiuru. The Fire Brigade will hold a euchre party on Friday. The best, His Master’s Voice, allBritish radio, stocked by Mr. L. &. Lowry.

The annual meeting of the Te Horo public hall committee will be held on Friday night. The general public is invited to attend. The Otaki Football Club will hold euchre and a dance in the Cosy theatre on Wednesday, May 2nd, when, two leading orchestras will supply the music. Arrangements are in capable hands.

“This is not an uncommon practice,” remarked a member-of the Wellington Education Board at its last meeting, when the removal of the palings from the fence around the Wellington East Manual Training Centre was brought under the Board’s notice. The palings, it was stated, had been removed by people in need of firewood. One offender had been caught, and had been dealt with leniently owing to his circumstances, but offenders in future, it w r as pointed out, would be more severely dealt with.

The serious problem with which sportsmen were faced in the visitation of pukelco to the nests of game birds for the purpose of eating the eggs found there was referred to at the Auckland Acclimatisation Society. Members were unanimous in the opinion that steps should be taken to rid the districts affected of this bird. It was decided to take up the discussion again next year, and in the meantime members of the society are to be urged to secure definite evidence of the fact that the complaint is well founded Jli the form of photographs.

“Mr. Shaw is a law unto other people," said Captain Cosmo M. Graham, R.N., at the Timaru Rotary Club’s luncheon this week, states the “Herald.” He is a sheep in wolf’s clothing. He is the sort of person who likes to go into a tooiii and say, ‘What a fog in here,’ open all the windows, letting in an icy blast, and then walk out. He attacks the things he loves best, because he is jealous of their reputation." Captain Graham quoted a remark made by G. K. Chesterton more than 30 years ago: “Those who understand Mr. Shaw do not agree with him, and those who agree with him do not understand him."

About 10.000 bags of onions from the Christchurch district will be shipped for Canada by the Canadian Constructor at the end of this week (reports the Christchurch Sun). The Canadian Constructor’s consignment will probably end the Christchurch onion export season. The total export will be in the neighbourhood of 26,000 bags, the largest of recent years. Last week the Canadian Challenger took 16,000 bags, and earlier one or two small shipments were sent away. All the onions are going to Canada. Grading of the 10,000-bag consignment is still going on in one of the sheds at the Christchurch railway goods yard. It is expected that the heavy export will tend to improve prices for onions on the local market.

A man who was described as the father of the world’s strongest boy appeared before the Wokingham District Council (England) to explain why he had not complied with an order to obtain better housing accommodation for his family. The man, an unemployed hairdresser, was said to be living with his wife and six children in a shed. He told the council that his only chance of getting better accommodation was for his fourteen-year-old son to take up work at a circus as the “world’s strongest boy" at a weekly salary of £2O. A contract had been arranged, but the boy could r.ot leave school. The chairman advised the father to get in touch with the education authorities to see if the boy cov’d be released from school, and adjourned the matter for a month. ft.' ‘

The action of the Wellington Headmasters’ Association in instructing teachers not to forward school exhibits to the recent Wellington Easter Show as requested by the Education Board was briefly criticised at teh last meeting of the latter body. The headmasters. it was stated, had not cooperated, as requested, with the Board on the ground that the proposed exhibit introduced the competitive element, which they considered not desirable. The headmasters, members of the Board thought, would have been better had they communicated with the Board with regard to their refusal to co-operate, and a resolution was passed expressing regret that this had not been done, and the Headmasters' Association will be asked to communicate to the Board any decision arrived at in the forthcoming conference be-' tween the' Association and the showauthorities.