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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 16042, 1 February 1923, Page 4

EUCHRE AND DANCE. PROGRESSIVE. Euchre Party and Dance will be held on FRIDAY NIGHT, in Assembly Rooms. • Six good Prizes, including four written order’s. Cards sharp at 8.- Dance 10.30. Good Floor. Music by Mr. McMullen. 687 ..’RESERVE SATURDAY NIGHT • r For 'the ELITE ASSEMBLY DANCE Girls’ Emergency Club Rooms. Refreshments. Ladies-1/6, Gents 2/6. I Music by 'the Elite Orchestra.—W, B. j Edwards, M.C.; J. Reidy, Hon.' Sec. AER ENG A-O-KURI gPORTS SATURDAY, 3rd FEBRUARY. To start at 10 a.m. POST ENTRIES. See Posters, j 723 PUBLIC BODIES’ NOTICES. GISBORNE BQROUGH COUNCIL. DISTRICT ELECTORS’ LIST, 1923. "VTOTIOE is hereby given that the JL\l District Electors’ List for the Borough of Gisborne is now open for inspection at the Council Chambers, Read’s Quay and Childers Road, Gisborne, during office hours, and will be until the 7th day of FEBRUARY, 1923. All objections thereto under Section 9 of “The Municipal Corporations Act, 1920,’’ must be in writing on the prescribed form, and. be delivered to the Town Clerk on or before the 15tn February, 1923/ A sitting of the Council to consider all objections and to finally settle such list will be held on TUESDAY, the 6th March, 1923. The attention of all Electors is drawn to the NECESSITY OF THEIR INSPECTING THE ROLL to ascertain whether their name has been omitted therefrom. ' . Further attention is also drawn to the fact that being on the Parliamentary Roll does NOT entitle Electors to vote at the local Municipal Elections. A SUPPLEMENTARY ROLL is now being prepared, and all those omitted or otherwise entitled to be placed on the Roll may, upon application at the Council Office, obtain a ’ form, which, when duly filled in, will eilable their name to b© put on the Supplementary Roll. Such Supplementary Roll closes at 5 okiock p.m. on THURSDAY, the 29th March; 1923. Dated at Gisborne this 31st day of January, 1923. R. D. B. ROBINSON, 694 Town Clerk.

WAIROA COUNTY COUNCIL. OVERDUE RATES. PURSUANT to Section 28 of “The Rating Amendment Act, 1910,” NOTICE is hereby given that TEN PER CENT, additional will Be charged on all Rates due to the Council remaining unpaid after 11th FEBRUARY, 1923. Proceedings will be taken for recovery of all outstanding amounts after the above date, without further notice. B. G. SIGNALL, ® Clerk and Rate Collector. Wairoa, 24th January, 1923. 468 . TENDERS^ TENDERS are requested for the Erection of a Residence, in Stout Street. Plans and specifications may be seen at the office of the undersigned, with whom tenders close on SATURDAY, February 10, at' 12 noon.—F. H. Forge, A.N.Z.1.A., Reg. Architect. 674 SPECIAL ENTRY. THI QIBBORNB BHEEPFARMIR* 1 FROZEN MEAT AND MEROANTILE 00., LTD. MATAWHERO YARDS. / WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 7th. On account R. R. Sherratt, Esq. : O p'AA 5-YEAR , EWES, one earZOUU mark, bred by, Waipaoa Station. J 54 R. V. GULLY,' Auctioneer. OYLE’S Print, the fabric with. a guarantee, in 30 patterns yard. Double-bed, Sheeting, 2/6 yard. White Table Damask, 2/11 yard.—Melbourne Cash. EXPERT mechanical knowledge and complete equipment enable us to undertake elfins, of motor and carriage repair ,or coachbuilding work.—J. R. Redstone and Sons, Ltd., Grey St. NEWS BY CABLE AND MAIL. HOME, RULE? FOR WALES. A meeting of the Union of Welsh Societies at Swansea decided to form a deputation to wait on Welsh members of Parliament to see if it is not possible to (fet -a satisfactory measure of Home Rule lor, Wales' introduced in the present session. NEW DEVON. , >; IMMIGRANTS FOR W.A. : LONDON, Jan, 23.—A plan to found a new Devon, probably in Western Australia, was launched at Plymouth today. On'behalf of Devon men it is expected 1 ; that! an emissary will lie sent out Ao select land ready'for development. Lntcip. ! lie will take out a large group of men/ women, andi'children. POINCARE MAY RESIGN. ATTRACTION OF LAW. LONDON, Jan. . 23.—M. Poincare, Prime Minister of France, wishes to become! “batonnier” (president of the order of French advocates) at<thei next bar election (says the Paris correspondent) of' The Times). His election would!' probably involve his fesignatipn, as Prime Minister to--wards the end' of February.

CLOSER UNION. LABOR FAVORS AMALGAMATION. LONDON, Jan. 23. —The growing' enthusiasm of Labor in Britain for the amalgamation "of trades unions has brought to ah end/ thief National Transport Workers’. Federation, from -which trie railwayman seceded. In order to attract the best men a salary of £ISOO is likely to be offered in the search for a successor to Mr. Bowermanj the general secretary of the Trades Union Congress. —:*T~l — BANK ROBBED. BEARER BONDS FOR £40,000. LONDON, Jan. 23.—Bonds, payable to bearer, worth more 1 than £40,000 were stolen from a bank at Scheggri (says the Romo correspondent of the Weekly Despatch). f Thieves forced the doors, and avoiding the automatic alarms opened a safe, using a- circular saw. A, girl of fourteen, the daughter of the porter, is suspected of complicity in the robbery. \ HOSPITAL APPARITION. ATTENDANT’S PRANK. i.o.NDON, Jan. 23.—A continuance for several weeks of ghostly manifestations at Rochford Workhouse Infirmary, such as bell-ringing, doused lights, and’ bloodfreezing- sounds produced consternation among the hospital patients. The terrified inmates asserted 1 that it was the unquiet spirit of “Nurse Matilda,’’ of dreadful memory. Residents offered £SO reward to anyone who could dispel, the apparition, but. without result. Then the probation nurses started to leave, and the matron decided that it, was time to act. She captured a nialn attendant in the hospital grounds at 3 a.m. wca.ring a sheet and 1 pillow-case, and' attempting to f ring the bell.