LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume III, Issue 862, 14 November 1916, Page 11

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A rainfall of 12 points fell at Methven last night. The i .valided soldiers in the Queen • Mary Hospital at Hanmer have asked |the Citizens' Defence Corps if it could ! obtain some tennis racquets an«l halls i for the'.r use. The corps will be glad i to receive donations. The funeral of the late Rev. F. W. ] Isitt is to take place tomorrow afteri noon. After a service, to be held at | the Durham Street Methoilist Church, i commencing at 2.10 p.m., the cortege I will leave at 2.53 p.m. for the Linwood ! Cemetery. The Tramways Board has j arranged for trams to leave Broadway's ! Corner for the cemetery at ;'..12 p.m. I The officers of the Citizens' Defence Corps' Bureau in Hereford {Street had a busy time in distributing to returned soldiers and men on leave from the training camps passes to the races and the Metropolitan Show, in Carnival "Week. They issued 2362 tickets for the Canterbury Jockey Club's races. At the trotting meeting and the Show, men in uniform were admitted without passes, but the tickets issued to returned soldiers who wished to see the "trots" aggregated 1106, and the show was also weir attended by returned soldiers.