LOCAL & GENERAL

Te Aroha News, Volume XIXXX, Issue 6355, 19 June 1923, Page 4

LOCAL & GENERAL

For not attending territorial parades regularly, T. Alvis was fined £\ and costs at the S.M. Court on Friday.

A meeting o? Glaxi suppliers will be held in the t üblio hall afc Te Arobuv West on Friday next at 1 p.ra.

At Saturday’s meeting of the Waitoa Drainage Board a vote of condolence was passed to Trustee Watson in the death of a relative.

u Yes, your Worship, defendan told ms that the little dog had died,’ said the dog tax collector in giving evidence at the local Court last Friday. “ But a couple of days later when I happened to be passing defendant's place there, on the ver" andahi I saw the little u dead ’’ gie enjoying a sun'bath.” A “titter’’ went round the Court as the old gent made the remarks, and His Worship decided that the tax is collectable upon dogs that die in this fashion. He imposed a small fine with heavier costs.

A man named Peter Jansen was convicted, without cost, at the local S.M. Court on Friday for breaking a bottle on the footpath. St. Mark’s Girls’ Guild will con' duct a social evening in the Parish Hall on Thursday next, when card playing, games and dancing will comprise the programme. Admission is Is 6d each.

A grand ball is to be conducted by the local branch of the St. John Ambulance Association in the Theatre Royal on Thursday, July 5. Nondancers are asked to note that for their pleasure the committee is ar" ranging for a progressive euchre tourney to continue while dancing is in progress. The prices—gents 43lady, 2s—are exceptionally reasonable for a function of this standard.

Persons interested in the native life and customs of the head hunters of the Solomon Islands are reminded that Rev. J. R. Metcalf, of the Solomon Islands, will speak on these subjects in the Wesley Hall at 7.45 p.m to-morrow (Wednesday) ; and Springdale folk will have the privilege of hearing Mrs Metcalf lecture on the same lines in the Springdale hall on the same evening.

A telegraph messenger was fined 5s and costs 7s, at the Police Court last Friday for riding a bicycle a'ong the footpath at Ruakaka-

Great interest is being centred in the dance that is to be held in the Theatre Royal on Tuesday, 26th inst, in aid of St. Joseph’s Catholic Church.

At last meeting of the borough council, His Worship the Mayor (Mr R. Coulter) was congratulated upon his appointment to the chairmanship of the Thames Harbor Board. Mr Coulter, in reply, said that the Thames people had taken the appointment in good spirit. At first there was a certain section a bit afraid, he said, for they thought that the new Board might be hostile to any proposal they might bring forward regarding the harbor scheme. Speaking further, Mr Coulter said that there were many at Thames who did not fully understand our objection to the proposals ; they were not aware of the fact that we were not opposed to Thames having a deep-sea harbor, but that we were only objecting to what we considered an unfairness by including our district in the area in order to make us partly liable for the loan. The council then unanimously agreed that it had no objection to the pre' sent proposals brought forward by the Thames ratepayers, nor would it instruct its delegate (Mr Coulter) to oppose them in any way.

As showing the great number of sharemilkers who are looking for positions this year, a district farmer informed our representative that in answer to an application for sharemilkers he received more than sixty applications, many from settlers who had met with misfortunes in the farming industry.

A grand dance in aid of the St. John Ambulance Society’s fund for the purchase of a motor ambulance for this district will be held at Mangaiti on Thursday, 21st inst. Extra special preparations are being made with a view to ranking this function among the best held in the district. There is no doubt but that there will be quite a number of Te Aroba folk present at Mangaiti on that night.

Wireless amateurs are referred to an advertisement appearing in this issue, and in which it is stated tha* evening classes for instruction in

Morse operating will shortly be opened in Te Aroha by a qualified wireless operator. Full particulars upon enquiry from Willis Bros., Ltl.

Tae phone number of J. E. Wil housepiinter, sign-writer and paper hanger, is 208. *

Use Nazol freely for- that fresh oold. *