Patea & Waverley Press WEDNESDAY, DEC. 5, 1923. LOCAL AND GENERAL

Patea Mail, Volume XLVI, 5 December 1923, Page 2

Patea & Waverley Press WEDNESDAY, DEC. 5, 1923. LOCAL AND GENERAL

Mrs Kenworthy has an interesting advertisement in another column with regard to Christmas presents of all kinds. Stall-Captain .Smyth, who has spent sonic years in Japan, will conduct services at the Salvation Army Hall on .Sunday next (Children's Huy). There will lie a distribution of prizes and special singing by the children in the afternoon. The cricket match to be plaj’od on the local Domain between the I’atea and Okaiawa elevens should he well worth seeing, both teams having an equal number of wins to their credit. Should Patea win on Saturday they will be level with the Excelsior team for the ctoutfioasliiy.

A now five-roomed house is offered to let in this issue.

An advertiser requires 'board and lodging in private family.

Mr Elliott, of the firm of Elliott and Minnell, tailors, of Wanganui, will be in town to-morrow, and may be interviewed at the Albion Hotel.

A Loudon cable states that with the signing- of a deed for land at Gravcnstwfel as a site for a Now Zealand war memorial, all the acquisition of land for memorials in Franco and Belgium has been completed.

Wo understand that arrangements have been entered into between the local Freezing Works Company and the Taranaki Freezing Company for the slaughtering and freezing of tho latter’« stock at tho Palca Works. Killing operations have already commenced.

An unusual visitor, in the shape of a hedgehog, arrived in Patea yesterday, being discovered by Mr Geo. Williams in his garden. Ho thoughtfully had it conveyed to the school, where the children had the opportunity of seeing a hedgehog for the first time in their lives.

The Taranaki beauty biograph competition has concluded, the popular verdict being as follows.—Miss I. Hooper, (Hawera), 10,917 votes, 1; Miss S. Be*win (Manaia), 9175 votes, 2; Miss J. Howell (New Plymouth), 0094 votes, 3; Miss AC. Walker (Hawera), 3015 votes, 4.

Consumers of water are notified by advertisement that owing to tho present dry weather tho need for economy in the consumption of water is essential. The use of hoses is restricted to half an hour >))cr day, between 7 and 7.30 p.m. Consumers arc requested to strictly adhere to this restriction, in their own interests and that of tho town generally, and thus conserve the water supply.