LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS

Patea Mail, Volume XLIX, 3 August 1928, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS

A capable domestic help is required

An advertiser is inquiring for a lost bangle. An owner is required for an ear-ring, which has been found.

A reminder is given of the Bowling Club’s annual meeting on Tuesday,next at 7.30 p.m. All intending new members are particularly invited to attend

The Commissioner of Crown Lands will offer a section in the Kapara Survey district for selection on renewable lease, and applications will dose at New Plymouth at 4 p.m. on August 8.

Knee bracelets, worn in gold or plat

In the strongest vaults of the world, situated in the Royal Mint, London, bullion worth seventy million pounds is sometimes storedi

Excellent entries have been received lor to-morrow’s school football and basketball competitions, which bid fair to be the best yet held.

A reminder is given of the annual footiba.il and. basketball tournament of the .Patfca and District Public Schools A.A.A., which is to be held to-morrow, commencing at II a.m. Refreshments will be obtainable on the ground.

A reminder is given of the grand concci’t in the Town Hall, Patea, on Tuesday next by the Hawera champion choir of 50 voices, under the conductorship of Mr. H. C. A. Fox. The proceeds will be devotea to the funds of the local Methodist Church.

The fine rendering of “The Star of Bethlehem’ 7 at the screening of “Ben Hur ’ ’ at the World’s Pictures on Wednesday and Thursday evening by

Mr. F. Naismith was a feature of a remarkably good picture. Mr, Naismith tnll again be heard at the screening of the picture to-night, ■

The annual exhibition of bulbs and other spring flowers organised by the ladies of St. George’s Church Avill be held in the schoolroom on Thursday, September 6.. This show, tvhich w-m a particularly pleasing one last year, bids fair to eclipse all records this year, judging by the amount of interest that is being taken in, it. Further particulars will bo announced later.

An amusing incident occurred at a local dance recently, when an entertainer, who had been applauded for a very fine recitation, gave as an encore an illustration of Avhat h» termed the Taranaki handshake. Calling a friend to him he squatted down and locked his hands-together, rvith the palms outward and the two thumbs hanging down. His mate squatted opposite to him and seizing tho two thumbs went through the act of milking a cow. Noediesß to say the “T;

anaki handshake ’ ’ wrought down the house.