Patea & Waverley Press MONDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1926 LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS

Patea Mail, Volume XLVIII, 20 December 1926, Page 2

Patea & Waverley Press MONDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1926 LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS

The Railway Department advertises in tliis issue particulars of train arrangements in connection with. the Christmas holidays. -Mr. E. C. Gilbert notifies that his dental surgery will bo closed from December 25 to January 4, and that Mr. G. T. Watkins, 8.D.5., will be in charge in January for a month. "The local meat works put up a record last week, when 24U0 lambs were put through the works in one day. The Borough Council offices will be closed for the Christmas and Is'ew Year holidays from December 25 to Tuesday, January 4, inclusive.

Thu Farmers’ Co-op. Organisation oocicty, Ltd., notify in lid.. ~ ~,,.0 that the ,>ale at Kakaramea which was to have been held on Monday, December 20, has been cancelled, and that their a«xt sale there will take place on Jan;ary LI, 1027.

A notice appears in this issue that Tie Public Library will be open for the exchange of books on Tuesday, the 21st inst, and Friday, the 24th inst., from 7.30 to 8.30 pan., and will not reopen until Tuesday, January 4, 1927. i’he public reading-room will not be pen on Christinas Day.

Nominations for Boxing Buy sports rill be found on Page four of this is-

A quantity of reading matter, indud.ng a report of the Moumahaki School prize-giving, has been held over until vVeduesdav ’a issue.

'An advertiser is inquiring fur lady’s hat, which was lost iroiu car on Thursday night.

White’s have an important advertisement in another column with regard to Xmas and Now Year gifts.

The results of the proliciency examinations for the various schools in this district will appear in our next issue.

A serious motor accident was narrowly .averted last week, when a motorist who had pulled up, on the wrong side of the main street' turned his car round whilst another car was approaching. The driver of the latter, seeing the car on the wrong side, did not imagine the driver was going to turn, consequently he was right on the ear as the latter turned, and had no hope of avoiding a collision. Tortunately both cars were going slowly at the time or a serious accident would have occurred. The need for a by-law compelling motorists 'when they pull up to keep on the left-hand side of the street is apparent.