GENERAL NEWS

Stratford Evening Post, Issue 27, 31 January 1929, Page 4

GENERAL NEWS

Lorry Overturns, Vtuming from «* »» »«■>? * c ,„ mty CnuncH »r- « 8 253 Mr H iellows and ivy-. h , d an unenviable experience when tec the wheels lapsed and cA the truck to overturn into a *«h 1 outside the trough bounty jrtl.eOpuna.kelload. Luckdy no onq was injured. Scinothing in a Dream. Tho Ugh it is not to bet on a, dream, £« OP una! , i 4- «-ll nrffU© that "Wiei.e in 1,1 '"";„„ (~v» tlio Times). „,i„ B ,u a *i«.™ l»!» On. ,*» ta* «* - » W(!l . that *°™ «"" ,'. 5 '',',, vWt „ „ml Hu \r f ,, «>»«**. «« ~;u) THIS, IHMU , ,l, in irl(>(l J **-* ft ti-t « *X„

Cocci Attendance Records. Good records of school attendance are held by two brothers, pupils pt

tho Auckland Normal School, Douglas M'unn s and James Frederick Muniis, who have attended for eight years and three, months, and eight years and two months respectively without missing one half-day's attendance. At a meeting of the Auckland Education Board it was decided to send a. letter of congratulation to the parents. Lyttelton Tunnel. On the 14th prox. a function is to be held in Olrristchurch in connection with, the inauguration of electric working on the Lyttolton-Christ-clrurch railway. The cry for the electrification of tho Lyttelton tunnel journey has been loud in the land for many yeans. No harm would have been done if the work had; been s£Rl further postponed and! the money cost devoted to other purposes. However, Christchureh people would not be happy until they got it—wonder if they are, happy now.

'Wjhtte Fang's Race. The extraction of teeth does not often have a bright side, but two of a party who visited Trenthajn on Saturday had the edge taken off the recollection of their last visit to the. dentist. They had been discussing their minor troubles, and it appeared that one had just had one tooth out and the other five. Turning! to the race book they sought inspiration along the lines) of teeth. "I have it," exclaimed one of the pair—White Fang duly won, and at least two of his supporters who went hot on h'« track work or previous performances received from the back of the totalisntor house more than sufficient to cover their; dentists' bill. The New Bank. Th© promotion of the London anew New Zealand Bank, which secured a' charter from the New Zealand Parliament on October 6 last, will proceed! forthwith and the New Zealand arrangements for the flotation of th© bank aire Well advanced. Tho pectus will b 0 issued to the lmhEd a s soon as negotiation* with! London now in progress are in order. , Mr G-iesen, the organiser, leaves Wellington on February 15 for London to complete the business at that end. It is proposed to raise a portion of tho necessary capital in England, offer, which the remainder will he offered in New Zealand!. The new hank is in no way connected with) a %®< n]i > which it is reported is being started In Sydney and) has "New Zealand" in its title.