Te Aroha And Ohinemuri News Published Monday, Wednesday, and Friday Evenings. MONDAY, MAY 31, 1915 LOCAL AND GENERAL

Te Aroha News, Volume XXXIII, Issue 15628, 31 May 1915, Page 2

Te Aroha And Ohinemuri News Published Monday, Wednesday, and Friday Evenings. MONDAY, MAY 31, 1915 LOCAL AND GENERAL

At a meeting of the ladies, held after the Concert at Eastport Road on Thursday, a ladies committee was formed to canvass for subscriptions for the purchase of material to be made up for the New Zealand Hospital ship. The ladies commenced their canvass on Friday, and the response of the setttlers was most gratifying to them. A real fireside comfort is a good easy chair, made of cane and seagrass, pretty designs, at prices from 21s to 42s at H. Jackson’s Furnishing Depot. *

The Banks will be closed on Thursday next, King’s Birthday. Call and see our Book of designs for Wooden Bedsteads in Rimu or oak; very artistic goods, and sold at catalogue price at H. Jackson’s Furnishing Depot. * The English Racing Calendar announces that there will be a race at Newmarket during Ascot week for horses engaged in the Derby.

Addressing a public meeting at Peria on Friday, the Hon, A. L. Herdman asked the electors not to vote so as to lead to a change of administration during a crisis.

Why sleep on a bundle of fern when you can buy a first class 2ft 6in Wire Woven Stretcher and Tufted Kapok bed for 30s at H Jackson’s Furnishing Depot. * Speaking at the open-air meeting on Saturday night, the Mayor referred to a magnificent gift made that day by Mr George Alley, of two sections of land in Auckland which were valued at £2OO. These will be sold by auction and the proceeds devoted to the Hospital Ship Fund. The gift was a splendid one, and was not by any means the first donation given by Mr Alley, he having given large sums previously to the Belgian Relief Fund and Patriotic JJunds.

A Church Parade of the National Reserve will be held on Sunday afternoon next, when the members will participate in a service at St. Mark’s Church. Members of the National Reserve are requested to assemble at the Fire Bell to-night for company and squad drill. The monthly meeting of the Te Aroha Chamber of Commerce will be held at the Piako County office this evening. A British bull dog is an animal greatly prized at any time, and more especially the present. The public will have an opportunity of securing one at Mr J. D. Mori son’s auction rooms on Saturday, when a well bred dog, given by Mr J. Beresford, will be auctioned, the proceeds to be devoted to the Hospital Ship Fund. May be this gift dog will come in as a Mascotte for the Te Aroha district boys shortly to leave for Trentham.

Good news for housewives 1 Williams can reduce the cost of living. I2lbs of onions for Is, I2lbs of new potatoes for is ; bring your kits. Now is the time to plant seeds. - ® The King’s Birthday, June 3rd, will be observed as a close holiday by the Te Aroha Post Office. It is worthy of note that the Te Aroha Dairy Company is contributing largely towards the ranks of the N.Z. re-inforcements; the whole of the employees, other than three mairied men, having enlisted.

By this rooming’s train the Te Aroha West Cheese Factory sent to the Winter Show, the large cheese weighing Bcwt. This contains many coins, and will be sold in pieces during the show. Fourteen recruits were listed up by Mr C. H. Richardson last week, and all passed the medical officer. The racing clubs of the Dominion have already given 12,309 in aid of the various war and relief funds. A late cable states that in the London market butter shows an easier tendency, owing to the hot weather increasing the Home market, but the shortage of colonial snpplies keeps prices unchanged. There is a strong demand for cheese, New Zealand being quoted at 100/-.