MILTON.
October 25 — The repoif and balance sheet of the Bruce Woollen Manufacturing Company for the >cur ending September 19, wliK-h has ju=t b^^n isiuod. '•hows a nrofitablo y0.11'3 o]>cration.<. The net piolif for the >oar amounts to £2539 6i Bd, which wuh'the balancp of £611 Is 10d -u-ried foiuard from hi.-,t >oar makes £3150 8s 6d. Ouf of 1 Ins the director* recommend the payment of a dividend of 5 p p r cent., writing £1000 off plant, and 1 carrying fro ward th- balance of £731 9-: lOd. The annual nie?ting i-= (i\ed for Xo>einbcr 5. Carrmal. — A carnnal and bazaar promoted by ihe Biuce Rifle.-, in conjunction uitli tli» 4th Battalion Band was held in the Ccion.uion Hall from Wednesday to Haturila\ e\ening-3 last wrr-k. The weather was unfoiuinat-ply bad during tho whole period, but nol withstanding that drawback tin cami\al pioved a most successful affair. \ )>ostor niaivh, in winch most of the local fini!>, ««i« lepre^ontod, proved a decided draw, being quite a novelty for Milton. S'tl-^how-. of \arious kinds weie 111 full swing each evening, while she/°-p-guesGing competition*, bran dips, and the \arious otl:°r merhoils common to bazaars all helped to e\trac-t th" nirnb!-" iixpenre or the. more loitllv slijlling from the pockets of the incj'Woh-. Despite tht* woather creel V u«ii.fss was, done, and the amount taken must have satisfied e\en the most sanguine oxp^ctationi". Boy Srout.-.— Mr W. Moore, secretary of the lor-al branch of the V.M.C.A., is at present enrolling the n«ini<?3 of boys in the ch-tnet willing to ioin the Hoy S«-< ut •no\ement. A considerable number ha^e aheady siornified th^ir willingness to bcromo tn^mbprs, and there in every prospect of a tjeed <crn^ bein? formed :v Yi;'ton. Railway '-'tai.ion — Wcikmen are now enaraged in shifting th? rail«a> station bac-k •1 c: l^r tiiil th" platform ma\ be widened T] •» iu-'i *)f traffic occasioned by the Tn=slng if th" ii'uth and «o-iih fx\,ro**o* vt Miltr,i\ b'i'li in the 'i)r.iiiiii>r and e\emng icn-<'-t^ t hi-, woik nn ab-o'ul' 1 n-n -l c<--i*j. Hjlwifon .\m,\ — Tl'e jinoii'il rollrrted l.\ thp I'.r.ii S \ roni' fui -"lf-f'eni.il Ihi\'ar k,n]'-.l £32. h« 0011 1 .ped «it!i £60 la-i - . I'.ijilj 11 .'.iii IldMiiaii, the popu- ]., ofT-K- - vi f)i.i)ire. nut 111 ;i yood d-al r 1,,"i uo.l- p. ii- !<•! -mi- of -olkftincr, .id jl « i^~il| niu-f I rxrerJlnplv era-if-.- i 1112 tn jiie.n f^ well a- to tl:; nidtij i\2ll- \\ 1 i." 1 '- of then rrood v.ork.
MILTON.
Otago Witness, Issue 2902, 27 October 1909, Page 38
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