THE PELORUS GUARDIAN and Miners’ Advocate. TUESDAY, MARCH 26, 1918. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Pelorus Guardian and Miners' Advocate., Volume 30, Issue 24, 26 March 1918, Page 2

THE PELORUS GUARDIAN and Miners’ Advocate. TUESDAY, MARCH 26, 1918. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Universal Pictures ’ Company have secured an attractive programme for Easter Monday night at the Town Hall, particulars of which will be given in our next issue. VOTE FOR BUNCOMBE. The Y.M.C.A. have offered their services for the relief of the Raetihi sufferers and will act in conjunction with the Public Works Department in having buildings provided as in the case of the soldiers’ camps. At a meeting of the New Zealand Natives' Association (Wellington), presided over by Mr G. Gates, it was decided to give the proceeds of their Easter Egg competition (which was intended for the erection of their memorial hall) to the sufferers by the bush fires. It is expected that between £3OOO and £4OOO will be raised. To correct acidity and flatulency take SHARLAND’S FLUID MAGNESIA. Being freshly prepared and always full strength, SHARLAND’S is the best yon can buy. VOTE FOR BUNCOMBE.

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“Spend all your surplus wealth: save all your surplus products, thus you doubly serve your follows.” On good Friday evening a service will be hold at St. Peter's Church, when the “Story of the Cross” will be sung to an entirely new setting, the solos of which will be rendered by various members of the choir. At the evening service of Easter Day the solo “Calvary” will be sung. VOTE FOR BUNCOMBE.

A thoroughly reliable appraiser from Eaetihi estimates the fire losses in the town at not less than a quarter of a million. The destruction of nine Main Trunk sawmills means a shortage of 900,00 feet of timber a month, that three hundred persons arc out of employment, and that their families are homeless. At the Welcome Home function on Thursday evenng, the following articles (n aid of the Y.M.C.A. Triangle Day fund) were dsposed of: Cheese, (presented by Havelock Dairy Factory), Mr M. O'Connor; cake, (presented by Mrs Twidle), Miss Ada Twidle; cushion (presented by Mrs Cowper), Mr Dan Bartlett.

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The next meeting of the Pelorus Sounds and District Farmers’ Union Executive will be held in the library, Havelock, Saturday, 6th April, at which the date for the annual conference will be fixed. A report on the Meat Trust question will be read and other matters of a general character dealt with.

“TAN-OL” does much and costa little. Renovates leather, shines tan shoes, polishes furniture, brightens floorcloth. Quick, easy and economical. An interesting statement was made by Sir Joseph Ward during the course of his address in Palmerston recently, when he stated that scientists wore of opinion that within a few years a new propelling power for ships, trains and motors would be brought into use. Numbers of scientists were now engaged in the solving of the problem and were confident of meeting with complete success. VOTE FOR BUNCOMBE.

There was again a large attendance at the weekly show of pictures in the Town Hall on Saturday evening, when an excellent programme was presented. The star drama item, “The Flower of No Man's Land,” in which Viola Dana at once established herself a favourite with the audience, bore out all that was claimed for it. Some beautiful and rare scenic views were shown, and the programme concluded with the usual amusing comedy.

The record in the United Kingdom for one week’s ploughing by a Government tractor plough stands to the credit of the Hereford unit. No less than 48 acres of land have been ploughed in one week, a stupendous performance having regard to the whole of the facts. An “Overtime” tractor and a “Cockshutt” three-furrow plough were used. The previous best return for the United Kingdom was one of 40 acres in one week, executed on a farm near Doncaster during the week ending 20th October with a Mogul tractor. VOTE FOR BUNCOMBE.

A 15-year-old Manx boy has captured a German. The story is as follows: Stanley Quaye, aged fifteen, a messenger, attached to the Isle of Wight Constabulary, took, single-handed, recently, Wojeseh Kazakeweis, a prisoner of war, who had escaped from a working party. Suaye, while conveying a message to a rural police station, met Kazakewies, and suspecting that he was an escaped prisoner, informed him that he had been sent out to recapture him. The man immediately surrendered, and the boy proudly escorted him to Ramsay, whence he was handed over to the military.

When “TAN-OL” comes in, dullness goes out. A splendid polisher for floors and furniture, leather and tan shoes. VOTE FOR BUNCOMBE.

A Eangitikei settler received an urgent call from a neighbour a week or two back. He had a hay crop out, and it must be garnered. Could he get the use of a man ? This was agreed to, and the man went on to the job. Shortly afterwards the latter saw a limousine travelling quickly along an adjoining road. “Who's that chap f” he asked of a fellow-haymaker. “Oh, that's the boss, he's off to the races !'' was the astounding reply. “Well, if that’s the wey he’s winning the war, he can't have mej” said the newcomer, and he walked off the job shortly after and forgot to come back.

“Every person who exercises economy becomes a producer and adds to the world’s supply.” VOTE FOR BUNCOMBE.

A Carterton lady resident, who has a few fowls and ducks, went to feed them on Tuesday morning as usual, and first found a duck dead with its head nearly off. Entering the fowl-house, a hen was seen in a similar condition, and another on a nest with its head drooping over. Going closer to examine this, the lady was considerably startled by a weasel jumping out from beside the She quickly got outside and shut the door. The old proverb says that you cannot catch a weasel asleep. This -ady had him sure, and a neighbour c ® ,I P- e i n and ended his career with a club, and the weasel and his victims were buried together.

Remember, if you want to get rid of that heavy dull feeling in the head, which accompanies Nasal Catarrh, just take a good inhalation of “NAZOL” through a Nazol Inhaler, and get immediate relief.

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