Patea & Waverley Press WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 7th, 1921. LOCAL AND GENERAL

Patea Mail, Volume XLV, 7 December 1921, Page 2

Patea & Waverley Press WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 7th, 1921. LOCAL AND GENERAL

Ring telephone No. 11l for plumbing and tinsmithing repairs. D. Jones, Eginont Street, Patea.

Mr Holdaway has a notice of thanks in this issue.

Cool prinks for the hot weather may be obtained at the Patea Bakery.

A second hand bicycle is advertised for in this issue.

The annual installation of officers of the local Druids’ Lodge will take place to-morrow at 7 p.m.

Parishioners of St. George’s Church are reminded that the Annual Garden Pete will be held in. the Domain on Wednesday, February 22nd next.

Messrs Gibsons Ltd. have a replace advertisement in this issue with regard to their famous Christmas hampers, Xmas fruits, and Xmas puddings.

Several coal miners who have been working at Denniston for a number of years arc going to Australia and taking their families with them.

Mr James Higham, the well known

pianoforte and organ tuner, of Unworn is in town. Orders led at the “Press” office will receive attention.

The value of the “Press” as an advertising agency was again strikingly illustrated on Monday when an advertise meat appeared notifying tnat a sum of money had been found. Within ten minutes of the time when the paper was issued the owner had claimed and was in possession of his lost coin.

The Bayloy Memorial Scholarship which was competed for on Saturday, resulted in a win for E. Alger, a pupil of the Stratford District High School. B. Brady, of the Patea Convent School inis a competitor and succeeded in boating iho standard set in the 100 yards, high and long jump, dribbling the football and drop-kicking.

It has been decided to hold the Plun-l-.et Garden Fete and Baby show on the second Saturday in February. The Committee are already hard at work and will have various side shows, produce, sweets and jumble stalls, Punch and Judy show, afternoon tea, ice cream etc. The aims and objects of the Society are fairly well known to all and as the work cannot be carried on without funds, it is hoped the public will respond in their usual manner.

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A reminder is given of the general meeting of the Patca Cricket Club to be held in the “Press” office on Friday night at 7.30.

In addition to the various Band items to be given at the sacred recital to be held on the 18th inst., vocal items will be given by Mesdamcs Brewer, Masters and Hamel, and Messrs Naismith and Illingworth.

The following telegram from Broken Hill appeared in a recent issue of the Sydney “Sun”: —■ Many directors of mining companies are expected here. It is expected that an attempt will be made to get a resumption of mining operations on conditions which will pay the companies. A letter from the New Zealand Waterside Workers Federation states that the delegate who visited New Zealand during the strike arranged for loans aggregating £4OO, and that unions who subscribed to the loans were beginning to ask when repayments would begin. Mr George Kerr, avlio was the president during the strike, states that members of the union thought that all the money that came from New Zealand ■was a gift.

The needle's eye has undergone several changes of position since, in the dim past, it was invented and placed at the end away from the point (remarks Everyday Science). In the first form of sewing machine the needle was made double ended, and the eye was placed in the middle, and the idea of putting the eye close to the point was one of the first factors in making a really practical sewing machine. Now in the latest pattern of needle the eye has disappeared altogether. This is a surgical needle Tor sewing up human tissues after a ■wound or an operation. For such use a needle with an eve has cause the double thread through the eye and back again, inevitably made at one point a thickness different from the thickness of the needle. The blunt end of the needle now ends in a short tube, in which the end of the thread is permanently fixed, so that the surface of the needle is smooth and regular from end to end, and there is no longer any “pull” when the thread follows through the hole that the needle has made. The inventor, a Loudon surgeon, has presented all rights of the new needle to the London Hospital.