Patea & Waverley Press FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1929 LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS

Patea Mail, Volume L, 1 November 1929, Page 2

Patea & Waverley Press FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1929 LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS

An owner is required for a camera, which has been found in Patca.

A live, valve Gillillan wireless, coni' plete with aerial, batteries, etc., is offered for sale in this issue. No reasonable cash offer will be refused.

Mr. T. W. Wall has supplies of waste ends of chepsc cases and butter boxes suitable for firewood for sale at £2 per truck at Waverley. Cash must accompany order.

The local bit. John Ambulance Association will be holding a shop day on .Saturday, November 1(5. Gifts of produce, poultry, cakes, etc., will be gratefully received at the stall.

Alex.-Mandcrson has a full range of all smokers’ requisites in his establishment in Egmont Street. He has all’the- most popular brands of cigarettes and can supply even the most fastidious.

The Church of England Ladies’ Guild euchre party will be held in St. George’s Schoolroom on Monday, November I, at 8 p.m., when the lady’s and gent.’s prizes will be the latest in tenuis shoes. A good supper will be provided.

The Patea Municipal Band are giving a recital in the Town Hall on Sunday next, after the close of the evening services. The recital will include vocal and instrumental items, which should add to the enjoyment of the programme. During che evening a collection will be taken up in aid of the band’s funds.

The “Talkerics'’ advertise in this issue particulars of the latest records. Among them are John MacCormaek singing “Where the River Shannon Plows” and “Eileen Allanah,”, and Galli-Gurci in “Home, Sweet Home” and “The Last Rose of Summer.” They also have Maori songs and all accessories for the gramophone.

Fifteen candidates were presented for confirmation at St. George’s Church, Patea, on Wednesday evening, when the ceremony was performed by the Eight Ecv. the Bishop of Wellington, Dr. T. H. Sprott, 0.8. E., D.D. The church was well filled, and the service .was a very impressive one.' The subject of the bishop’s address was'“The Danger of Drifting.” in which lie drew attention to the if ret that life is very largely the forming of habit, cither had or good. He stressed the point that it is a very important thing to have a definite goal for our ambitions and not to go along in a slip-shod manner. In conclusion the bishop said nothing better could be aimed at than to make Jesus Christ the captain of our Ship of Life.

‘ A lady doctor says smoking is a wonderful preservative of the teeth, and that although the teeth of some smokers may be discoloured they are generally sounder than those of nonsmokers. So many hard things have been said about tobacco that It is refreshing to find a lady—and a doctor at that—putting in a good word for the weed. But of course every smoker knows that smoking prevents or arrests ile.ntai tlccayi What every kniokor dosen’t know, or else ignores, is that excess of nicotine is highly injurious. And that’s where genuine Now Zealand tobaccos come in. Comparatively free from nicotine they may bo smoked almost incessantly with perfect safety. That is largely owing- to their being toasted (as no other tobaccos are). The toasting rids them of nicotine and gives them their delicious flavour and delightful aroma. Exclusively manufactured by the National Tobacco Co., Ltd., (pioneers of the N.Z. tobacco industry) they appeal to all tastes. “Eiverhead Gold” is mild; “Cavendish” and “Navy Cut,” medium; and “Cut Ping No. id” full.

It is estimated that the coal resources of the world are sufficient for at least another 1000 years.

An advertiser is inquiring for a new Borsalina. hat, which was lost from the dressing room of the Town Hall on Monday 1 night.

The Kev. W. Y. Martin, 8.A., will give a farewell address at the evening service of the Knox .Church, Paten, on Sunday next.

More than 850 lives have been saved by Cromer lifeboats, the centenary' of which station was recently celebrated.

Two Goldsmith price records were recently set up at Sotheby’s, London — a letter of 1773 of the author brought £I3OO, ami a copy of “The Vicar of Wakeludd’’ realised £1470.

A linal reminder is given of the. meeting of the committee of the Patca Amateur Athletic Association i’u the Borough Council chambers at 7.30 tonight, when arrangements for the Wednesday night runs and the cycle events at the Boxing Day sports will be made.

The Farmers’ Co-op. Organisation Society, Ltd., will hold their usual sale at the Kakaramoa yards on Monday, November 4, at 1 p.m., when good yardings of entile will be offered at auction. Among the entries is a choice yearling Jersey bull, 20 store cows, and 10 grade Jersey bulls, yearling and two yearolds. A line of 200 silver pine fencing posts will also be offered.

Replying to a correspondent a contemporaiy states that the hist return in the Official Year Book for the cost of our public services showed 83,000 employees at an aim mil cost of £18,500,000 in wages. But a delegate at the conference of Chambers of Commerce said tlie staffs of the State services alone had increased by 45,253 between 1913-14 and 1928-29, with a yearly increased cost of ncaidy £20,000,000. Mr. Verschaffelt, Public Service Commissioner, was present and did not deny the figures—he was merely “amazed.” There is no wonder that the Minister of Finance finds it hard to balance his Budget.