Rodney & Otamatea Times. Wednesday, December 10, 1941

Rodney and Otamatea Times, Waitemata and Kaipara Gazette, 10 December 1941, Page 4

Rodney & Otamatea Times. Wednesday, December 10, 1941

Terms of Subscription '■— 10/- per aunuiu In advance. Casual advertisements are Inserted at the rate of 4/- per Inch per insertion. Quotations for standing advertisements may., be obtained on application ,The rates are very liberalAdvertisements .received without the number of insertions being stated will be continued and charged for until ordered out, except in the case of announcements where the date conveys the limit to the number of insertions. PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY BIETH NOTICE Shaw—To Dr. and Mrs. R. V. Shaw, at Warkworth on December 9th, 1941, a son. . LOCAL AND GENERAL ■ ■' *•' '••'• •■ • The Pan-American trans-Pacific Clipper, inward bound, passed over central Wark worth at about 3.5 last Monday afternoon. Flying at an unusually low altitude, eyewitnesses were treated to a fine spectacle, Meeting of Sportsmen at Waiwera A meeting of sportsmen will be held in thd Waiwera Hall next.Saturday evening for the purpose of. considering a proposal to form a Racing Club, to be Imown as the Waitemata Racing Club. In the event of the club being formed, consideration will also be given to the question of holding a race meeting in aid of patriotic funds.

Whangateau Sports On account of the International situation, it was decided at a meeting of the Whangateau Sports Club held early this week, to hold a Grand Patriotic Picnic on New "Year's Day instead of the usual athletic meeting with horse events. It is proposed, however, to include on the programme a number of races, etc., for children and young men and women, as well us a number of competitions. "Nancibel" in New Dhess Messrs Gubbs Kawau Services' O.Y. Nancibel, which has been on the slipway at the Warkworth town wharf for the past few days for the purpose of overhaul and painting, resumed her usual ru»shetween Sandsnit and Eawau last week-end. Her former drab appearance has been transformed with the coating of paint received and she now looks in particularly gay trim. The hull has been given coats of red and green, while' the deck fittings, etc,, have been carried out in "wheelhouse" white. The interior of the passengers' cabin and wheelhouse have been painted in pastel green. \^. Waiwera Hoese Owner's Success At the Waikato Trotting Club's meeting at Claudelanda last Saturday, "Waiwera Jewell," a brown fill}, 3 years, owned by Mrs G. Schiscbka, of Waiwera, was suc6essful in winning the second division of the Frank ton Handicap, a distance of ]£ miles. It was one of the surprise wins of the day's racing. The horse started at long odds and returned double figures to its backers. During the hearing of hii appeal for exemption from service by a yoiuig man at the sitting of the Armed Forces Appeal Board last Friday, the appellant, in reply to-ques-tions, 'stated that be had made an Mgreement with a property owner to lease 16 acres for 7 years 'at JE4/10/----per month. Later the area was increased to 45 acres at £11 per month. Improvements he bad carried out on the property and the additional ucreage had enabled him to substantially increase bis herd and production. The appellant; added; that the lease agreeme.nt^was onjy a verbal one and us.: far '.as he knew did not provide for any compensation for improvements on its expiry. The chairman of the Board, Mr J. P. Finlay, then askeft: ''Isn't tfijß property corning to you by ■will'?''; Appel.laiit; "I.haven'tasked him yet." ' :

We leariito day .that !\liss Jessio Martin",'only^ daughter of^ Mv F. DavieMnrtiii, Falls rtjad, Warkworth, who is still an jiirnate of the Auckland Hospital, is progressing favoui'ably. Miss Martin suffered a fractured kneecap recently as,;fclie result of a fall on concrete'afc her home. -