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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19124, 19 September 1936, Page 4

An enthusiastic Labour supporter ■routed endless amusement at Sir. F. W. Doidge's political meeting at Penrose, lie kept moving from one part ot the hall to another and maintained verbal exchanges with the candidate. The climax arrived when he flourished two ill notes.,and marching up to the platform, offered to make a wager with Mr. Doidgc that he would not win the Manukau seat. The candidate laughingly declined the invitation "to cover the notes." A small grey Persian cat whose home is at the North E?,i''' n "t hostel has apparently become aclimatised to "Antarctic'' weather, like most other animals about the place. It decided to follow a narty of alpine club members bound for Tahiirangi Hut late the other afternoon and climbed independently to the top of the TCazoibaek, where high winds and heavy rain on its fur proved too exhausting. ' Tl finished the journey, purring loudly, in a sugar sack that contained concentrated fuel for the hut stove. "Dinna forget."—When visiting or passing: through Napier—the "Trocadero" ts In full swing to give service and satisfaction.*