DISTRICT NEWS

Southland Times, Issue 21092, 26 May 1930, Page 4

DISTRICT NEWS

RIVERSDALE NOTES.

EUCHRE TOURNAMENT. (From Our Correspondent.) The first of the fortnightly euchre tournments in aid of the school piano fund was held in the Drill Hall on Monday evening. There was a fair attendance and after two hours’ play Mrs T. Shea was the winner of the ladies’ prize and Mr J. C. McKenzie carried off the. gent’s first prize. Draughts.

The Riversdale and District Draughts Club met in the Plunket Rooms on Tuesday evening and started their games with a concealed handicap. ' Women’s Institute.

On Wednesday evening Miss Stops, organizer of the Women’s Institute, addressed a fair attendance of ladies in the Plunket Rooms. She gave a highly entertaining address on the aims and objects of the institute. There were home-making, co-opera-tion and citizenship, i Their mottos were “For Home and Country” and “If you know a good thing to pass it on.” Miss Stops said that already there were 115 institutes in New Zealand with approximately 5000 members.

Those present were then shown a display of homecraft which Miss Stops brought from various institutes in the Homeland. Some beautiful work was shown which gained prizes at the London Exhibition and some of which - was done by Miss Stops herself, among which were beautiful scenes worked in silk.

At the conclusion of the address it was unanimously resolved to form a local institute. Mrs A. Paterson (Ayrmont) was elected president; Mrs C. 0. Derrett—vicepresident; Mrs J. C. McKenzie—treasurer; secretary—Miss Freda Macpherson; committee— Mesdames J. C. Macpherson and D. McLennan, and Misses I. and C. Paterson and Smaill. It was decided to hold meetings on the third Friday of every month. Plunket Ball. On Thursday evening the Plunket Society held a ball in the Drill Hall. There was a fairly large attendance, people coming from Gore, Waikaia, Mossburn and Lumsden. . Bain’s orchestra supplied very good music. A very enjoyable evening concluded in the early hours of the morning.