Waverley

Patea Mail, Volume XLIII, 21 March 1919, Page 3

Waverley

WAVERLEY-WAITOTARA SHEEP DOG TRIALS.

A meeting of the committee of ithe Waverley-Waitotara Sheep 'Dog Trials Club was held in Messrs Palmer & Gray’s office on Tuesday evening, Mr Gregor McGregor presiding. Messrs W. Robertson. D. B. R°bertson, J. Walker, A L. Elmslie, Harrison and L. W. Ferguson were present. The minutes of the previous meeting were read and confirm :d. The Secretary reported that the Association had written asking if it would be possible to hold a championship meeting at Waverley. After discussion Mr Walker proposed that the Secretary wr.te to the Association and state tiny were quite prepared to hold a championship trial at Waverloy. This was seconded by Mr W. Robertson and carried. The Secretary reported that there were 72 entries for lue trials He*also reported the following donations to ttye prize fund • Dickie & Wallace £2 2s, Aiken Bros. £2 2s, Gregor McGregor £2 2s, W. H. Wybourne £2 2s, M. A. Wybourne £1 Is, J. E. Palmer £1 Is, D. Taylor £1 Is, D. B. Robertson £1 Is, G. Johnston £l, 0. Hawes £l, Alex. Howie £l, D. Walker £l, A. L. Elmslie 10s. It was resolved that Messrs P. Harrison, J. E. Palmer and Jas. Walker make arrangements for the refreshments. It was decided that the committee appointed meet on the ground to prepare the course, erect the pens and marquee. This being all the business the Chairman declared the meeting closed.

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~ A butcher’s shop is to be opened again in Waitotara. A cricket match, married v single, will be played between members of the Waverley Club on Saturday at 1 o’clock. The premises occupied by Messrs Clarke Bros., Waitotara, for many years, have changed hands and will re-open shortly. Mr L. W. Ferguson left by the mail train on Wednesday morning, enroute to the South Island, where he has gone to attend the funeral of Mrs Ferguson’s mother. In another column will be found particulars of a clearing sale of household furniture and effects and prize poultry that Mr Bennett is holding on Friday next on behalf of Mr Wm. Evans. A full rink consisting of Messrs J. E. Palmer, D. Taylor, S. Napier andJ. Verry, left by motor on Thursday morning on a bowling tour. The players expect to play at Palmerston North, Dannevirke, Waipukurau,_ Napier, Greenmeadows, Hastings, Waipawa and Pahiatua. In another column Mr B. T. Bennett notifies that he has received instructions from Mrs J. W. Emerson to sell by auction at an early date, at her residence the whole of her household furniture and effects. Further details will appear in our next issue. Further local successes in the February musical examinations are the following, all of Waverley : Gladys Beer (Convent), Freda Grove (Miss Dickie), Myra Hart (Convent), Effie A. Mathieson (Convent), Lily Parkinson, Constance Warner (Miss Dickie), Isobel Alexander (Miss Dickie), Frances Banks (Miss Dickie), Lorna Bason (Convent), Marjorie Boyd (Miss Dickie), Winifred G. Handley (Miss Dickie). At the sale of pedigree Ayrshire cattle held at the Mournahaki State Farm on Tuesday, one local farmer, Mr W. A. Spicer, was a buyer and secured the following: Dominion Peggy 38 guineas, Dominion Maggie’s Lass 23gs, Dominion Ruby First 26gs. Dominion Lady Roberts Dominion Brownie Girl 24gs, Domiinon Margaret 44gs, and a pedigree bull 15gs. Mr A. G. Muir, another local buyer, secured Dominion Cinderella First at 23Hgs, Domimß Julia one pedigree heifer lOgs, another at and a pedigree bull at s^gs.

A first class programme is to be shown by the Royal Picture Coy. on Saturday night, including the World Drama “ Shall we forgive her.” The story runs as follows: —Grace goes west to a mining town to join her lifelong sweetheart Neil, only to find him a drunken sot. She is forced to stay with him or accept the merciless hospitality offered by the barroom. After a year she ma kes her escape, and arriving in New York she obains settlement work through an old friend Rev Paul Ellsworth. She meets Oliver West who falls in love with her and they get married. Neilturns up to blackmail her and Joan, a young woman who had loved West previous to his marriage, sees that he learns the truth. The shock proves fatal to his eyesight. With the money realised on her stories, Grace pays for an operation on West which is successful. West hears the whole truth regarding Grace’s sojourn in the West and at this story West is moved to forgive and ask forgiveness.