GENERAL NEWS

Stratford Evening Post, Issue 32, 8 February 1929, Page 4

GENERAL NEWS

Postponed. Yesterday's Celtic v. Wait'ar.a eric ket match which was to have been . played at Waitara was' .postponed because of Celtic not being able to get a team together. Egmcnt Club Snooker. The Egmcmt Club's weekly snooker competition holdfast on Wednesday resulted in a win for Mr T, Sullivan with Mr W. Ritchie as runner-up. American visitors. Twelve: of the party of Americans who are at present touring New Zealand are to visit Stratford on Wednesday next. They will make a trip to Mt. Egmont. Oil Share Speculation. , A fair number of .shares in the company working the Blenheim bore' at New Plymouth are held by Stratford residents, who have suddenly developed an intense interest in the Stock Exchange. Victoria Park Flowers. Victoria Park is at present looking its best, and all the flower "Beds are sown 'down, so that when the present lot of flowers die out another, lot will take their place. The new bed between the tennis courts and the croquet green is a credit to the caretaker, and many people stop to admire it. In the Crinoline Days. "I recollect in my young clays that women wore crinolines, and wh hever I was going to receive a smacking I would hide under the crinolines of my nurse—it wag good cover. Bow the women of those days, with their enormous headgear, get home ill a nor'-wester—or how they sat down comfortably in their bustles, I don't know/6-Dr. Thacker at a meeting of the Summer Dress Reform League.

Sunshine Day. The nurses of the Hawera and Stratford hospitals, the matron and inmates of the Old People's Home, and the boys of the Salvation Army Boys' Home, were the guests of the motor traders of Hawera at a Sunshine Hay, held at Opunake on Wednesday. The day was spent in games;'swimming and other recreations. Sweets and prizes were provided for the youngsters by the hosts, each boy receiving a prize. Adjutant Rogen, of the Salvation Army Home, in a few well-chosen; remarks, expressed appreciation on behalf of the day's guests.

A- Good Rat Story. The Saying "as cunning as a rat, is proverbial, and that it is. correct a Wellington resident had, ocular pnoofl M week-end. Hearing a 'disturbance in his fowl-run, he went to ascertain the cause. To his surprise he saw two rats, one lying m its back with an egg between its forepaws, and a larger rat standing on its hind legs, dragging its mate along the ground towards a the vard The fowl-owner had blamed "small boys for his poor return of; egcrs but ho now knows who had b een "ratting" hie fowl-house.