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Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XLI, Issue 11696, 16 October 1916, Page 4

Marton School Committee meet this evening at 7.30.

A special general meeting and annual general meeting of the Marton Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club members will be held in the Coronation Hall on Monday, Oct. 28rd.

% Under the Cinematograph Film Censorship Act local bodies now have the power to prevent the exhibition in hoardings and in vestibules of objectionable posters. For the Red Cross Day appeal all coll ectors who have hot yet received permits and boxes are requested to come to the Town Hall at ten o’clock to-morrow morning.

Signaller J. B. Taylor, Bulls, of the 19th Specialists Company, who was recently home on sick and final leave, has now returned to Featherston to complete his training, and is, we are pleased to announce, much improved by his holiday.

The Committee of the Marton subbranch of the Royal New Zealand Society for the Health of Women and Children regrets that for a few weeks the Plunket Nurse rWIII be unable to visit Marton. As soon as the new nurse comes to the Taihape district notice will be given. Mr H. Black, of Makirikiri, Mar' ton, received a cable to-day from the Defence Minister that his sou, John Black, bad died of wounds in the University War Hospital, Southampton. on October 11th. Another son, William, died otfever at Malta after the Gallipoli campaign, and a third sou, James, is at present in the trenches in France.

The annual garden party and sale of work in aid ot Dr. Barnardo’s Homes, under the auspices of the Upper Tutaenm Dorcas Society, will be held in Greystoke Bush, opposite the Methodist Church, Upper Tutaenui, on Wednesday next. A hearty invitation is extended to everybody, and for the price of admission, which is one shilling, afternoon tea will also bo dispensed. On the arrival of the troop train at the Marten Junction station yesterday morning the platform was crowded with friends, relatives and well-wishers of the boys who were on final leave prior to sailing for the front. It was a very animated scene, and the lively strains cf music bv the Marton Junction Band added to the martial scene, which was appreciated by the young soldiers and their friends.

% Yesterday morning at six o’clock the combined shop and dwellinghouse occupied by Mr Feney, of Halcombe, as a baker, was destroyed by fire, also the unoccupied shop adjoining. Mr Feney saved his piano and about £2O worth of stock. As the insurance on the furniture is £SO he will be a heavy loser. The shop was owned by Mr J. Dorrell, and the unoccupied shop by Mr J. Fraser.

The annual meeting of the Marten Swimming Club will be held in the Coronation Hall at 8 o’clock this evening. A hearty invitation is extended to parents and anyone interested in this sport. In view of the tact that thirty of the club’s original members have enlisted, the reins ot management have fallen on a few, and more members are required to take an active part in its management. School teachers are specially invited to attend, so that the newlyappointed committee will he able to draw up a timetable suitable to their requirements, Messrs Parkes and Vincent, Levin, are sole agents for a dairy farm of 110 acres, situated within a quarter mile of cheese factory, railway station and school in tne Manakau township, Eighty acres are splendid dairy land, and thirty are well grassed hills. On the property there is a house of four rooms, with dairy, cowshed, and all conveniences. This dairy farm is to be sacrificed at £3B 10s per acre, £4OO cash required and terms at 5 per cent. Bee advertisement on page 2. The Hawke’s Bay Spring Show will take place at Hastings next Wednesday and Thursday, and there is[every prospect of a very successful event being recorded. The entries are greater than those ot last year in nearly every section of the Show. Sheep and horses are slightly better, while cattle and pigs show a large increase, the smaller sections of the Show following suit. The quality of the stock shown at Hastings is noted as being as good as any to bo seen m New Zealand, and this year is not likely to be any exception to past years in that respect. There will be a great exhibit of Maori curios, which should be quite an attraction to visitors. The Hawke’s Bay A. and P. Society has always had a section for native exhibits, but the entries this year have increased from just over sixty to nearly 150, and some very valuable exhibits will be shown. The Railway Department have arranged for excursion fares from all the southern parts of the North Island. If yon are looking for something really smart, something stylish and becoming, something a little different from the ordinary, something that will wear and give satisfaction at a reasonable price, you should without hesitation pay a- visit to Lloyd’s Ltd., Marton, where you can always rely on seeing a choice and extensive selection of the very latest summer wear. See special advertisement on page one.

Don’t pay first-class prices for ordinary gioceries when, for inferior prices, yon can get first-class goods, as you do here. We say ‘‘send back” to our customers if our groceries are not satisfactory, but our customers don’t seem' to want to. Hodder and Tolley, Ltd., cash grocery depot, Marton.