CANVASTOWN NEWS.

Pelorus Guardian and Miners' Advocate., Volume 20, Issue 70, 3 September 1909, Page 4

CANVASTOWN NEWS.

[Prom our Correspondent!. The Rifle Club will fire a competition on Saturday, for a Club Trophy, and handicaps will be made later. The shoot is to commence at 1 p.m. Roll up, boys! The Rev. J. R. Burgin will give his lecture in connection with the Canvastown Debating Society on Saturday night, the 4th inst. All the lasses and lads are looking forward to the Kia Ora hockey girls’ ball on Friday, and if only Jupiter Pluvius will kindly turn his attentions to some locality where they are more urgently needed there will be a record attendance. At a meeting of the Oanvastown School Committee on Saturday, 28th inst., the Education Board forwarded copies of Mr Justice Cooper’s lecture on “ Words ” for distribution, and also sent notice that nine days’ holiday were to be observed in the Marlborough schools during the celebration of the Prpvincial Jubilee. The Board also made enquiries re school water-supply, which is certainly very inadequate at times. Tanks are the only means for storing drinking water, the creek meandering through the playground being but a muddy receptacle for all kinds of rubbish brought there by the overflow from the Pelorus River in floodtime. The boys at Carluke are certainly adventurous to start an Axemen’s Carnival on their own, but at least the logs will be handy, and under the presidency of Mr H. J. Smith the affair ought to prove a success. , Although the Havelock Dairy Factory Directorate declined to agree to the suggestion of the deputation from Oanvastown the local dairymen are going to try and finance a cheese factory here themselves, even though it is a bit late in the season. Had they done this in the] first place Ithe factory would probably have been in working order, by October. When money can be found for carnivals and regattas surely the “harmless necessary cow” can command sufficient public confidence to set her in safety on her throne as “Queen of the Earth! ”

Mr Stobbie, ex-dairy inspector, was here on Saturday. Four or five hundred persons have signed the petition for his re-instatement in his old office.