LOCAL AND GENERAL

Stratford Evening Post, Volume LVIV, Issue 83, 24 December 1926, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

The Salvation Array 'Band commences their carolling in Uroadway to-night lijnd will play during the week in the surrounding district.

The holiday railway traffic has certainly set in. The mail train arrived at 7.20 o'clock last night.. It consisted of two engines, twelve passenger carriages, two vans and a horse box.

The Citizens' Band will play in Broadway this evening from 8 to 9 o'clock, and will carol throughout the town on Xmas morning. To enable all part? of the town to be visited, the Band is divided into three parties, and a start is to be made at 5 a.m. Contributions are to be devoted to the Contest fund.

Queer assortments of merchandise are visible on the running boards and luggage grids of touring motor-cars, now passing daily tnrougn Vvanganui, says the "Chronicle." The other, day a JP'ord car bearing the sign of the Auckland Automobile Association bore itself down the Avenue with a n air of mud-stained pride. On its running board were various commodities, including provendor, a portable gramophone, and a camp-stool, on top of winch was perched a fox terrier, serene and quite at home. .

The' principal keeper of the Cape Egmont Lighthouse iias written to Mr. A. J. Barf, secretary of the local Branch of the South Taranaki Automobile Association intimating tiiat he will be pleased to show) members of the Association over the lighthouse on the occasion of the run on January 23. The letter draws attention to the fact that the road for a-few chains; Ts' in if ;ver\- bad state, especially during wet weather and members would be well advised to travel slowly when approaching the lighthouse reserve. '

Very many requests have been made to the Stratford Comedy Company to again produce "Facing theMusic," which was such an unqualified success .when staged some time ago. A committee meeting was held last night, when the ;< matter was gone into, and if was decided to present the play with tho original cast at the Town Hall' on Saturday, January Ist. It is understood that as a result of the last production the Band will benefit to the extent oJ about £2O.

A well-known Wanganui City Council employee had a unique experience at Gonville the other evening, whither he went on business. He was just about to take" his departure when a woman rushed up and caught him by the arm, and remarked: "Here, where the —— are you going to?" "I beg your pardon, madam," he replied in his most polite manner, "but I think you have made a mistake." The woman, a little taken back, said that she was sorry, but she thought it was her old man trying to sneak out for the evening during her temporary absence.

Schoolboys and University students often favour energetic methods of spending holidays, and a recent entersprise which had Wanganui as ite head-quajters furnishes a fresh example of this pieierence, says the Wanganui "Chronicle." One young man, an Otago student, walked from Wei-. lington to Wanganui, where he' joined a fellow-student equally energetic. Both then tramped up the Parapara ■Head, and finally sca.led Mt. Ruapehu, . with nothing but their native intelligence to , guide them. The weather throughout their trip was shocking, but woolsheds and barns were sufficient shelter. The pair now propose to walk to North Auckland.

Stock prices are at present good as far as prime fat lambs a.re concerned, says the Wanganui "Chronicle," and several farmers in the district have disposed of big lots at rates running from 21s to 23s 6d per head. Prices payable for the first quality animals are: Lambs, per pound; wethers od per pound; ewes 3sd per pound. Beef prices are not causing jubilation on the part of producers, while ewes and wethers are not selling to the same extent as lambs. Transactions in fat lambs are at present the principal feature of stock market operations.

A novel method of propelling a barrel along the road by pushing it in front of a motor-car was revealed to people in the upper Avenue the other evening, says the Wanganui "Chronicle." People waiting in the tramshed near Glasgow Street were astonished when the car, with the barrel rolling along under its front axle, appeared from the direction of the city. The wear and tear of the cash was heavy, and splinters flew ia all directions. Near the foot of St. John's Hill the driver stopped his car a.nd inspected the wreckage, but at no stage did his behaviour disclose the reason for the eccentricity.

For ah electrical repairs, house, ttiritjg and appliaices, \£o to KnewBtubb and Smith. All wor* £uari*uteed and «nly the beat materia? Olid &.DDlian"tf lfldfl. B'n? Dhow* 91 * Ward off first symptoms or Flu by taking Brown's Special 'Flu Mixture 3/6 per bottle, Brown's Pharmacy, r-(Ai7t.l .._." j

A general meeting of members of the Avon Bowling Club is advertised to l>e held oii Monday next, 27th hist, at 1.45 p.m., when a good attendance is hoped tor. Weather permitting a progressive tournament will be held at 10 a.m..

The secretary of the Stratford branch of the South Taranaki Automobile Association (Mr. J. Barr) has been advised that the Hawke's Bay Association has passed the following resolution in connection with a suggestion made by the North Island Motor Union as to the advisability of establishing highway lighthouses upon main roads: —"That this executive is of opinion that lighthouses of the type erected on the main highways, Napier to Hastingß,!B are of immense value to motorists, particularly at night, when approach- » ing dangerous or railway crossings and strongly urges their adoption upon all the main highways of the Dominion."