LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Patea Mail, Volume XLIII, 30 July 1919, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Try D. Jones, Eginont Street, for plumbing and tinsmithing repairs.*

A :sc of four or five rooms is cn quired for by a returned soldier.

A. young girl desires to assist in light house-work.

An owner is required for a key found In the Town Hull.

Mr. and Mrs. F. Sherwood have a notion of thanks and appreciation in this issue.

A. pair of dancing slices lost in Paiea on Friday night arc enquired for in this issue.

A reminder is given of (lie sale of Mrs. C. Gower’s furniture and effects which M. Bennett & Harding are holding at her residence to-day.

Captain and Mrs. Hold-sway are holding a series of Chalk Talks and Sour; Messages for the child-,-on in the Valval ion. Army Hall each Wednesday at ik,JO p.m. All children are cordially welcome, and admission is. free.

The Committee of the local District High .School desire to acknowledge with, thanks the receipt of the sum of throe pounds sterling from Mr. A. T. Christensen for the Robbie Memorial fund.

An advertisement appeared in the b acting American papers sonic lime

- o in which the advertiser modestly

claimed that for five dollars ho would send an absolutely certain remedy for .lestroving the Colorado beetle, which was playing havoc with the potato crops. In order, he added, that the pest should be stamped ont simultaneously throughout the (ounlry, lie would forward it to all apbcanls so I hat it would reach them all on the morning of April 1. Thousands of farmers forwarded Jive dollars, and on April I receive;! by post a small wooden malic), worth, about 2d, with instructions to go forth and smite the beetles with it. ‘ ‘ They have never ' ein known to survive the blow,’’ the advert b emeu I added.