CENTRAL TARANAKI NEWS

Taranaki Daily News, 30 January 1930, Page 12

CENTRAL TARANAKI NEWS

ATHLETIC CHAMPIONSHIPS. STRATFORD CLUB’S DECISION. In accordance with a suggestion from the New Plymouth Amateur Athletic Club the executive of the Stratford Amateur Club decided last night to run the Taranaki championship meeting at Stratford early in March. On Wednesday the Stratford Club will hold an‘evening meeting. The meeting will be the first of a. series for which trophies will be awarded on points. The events will be 100 yards primary school boys, 100 yards handicap, high jump, 440 yards handicap, half-mile cycle, mile handicap, discus, 100 yards high school toys, and two mile cycle. Nominations close with Mr. W. Mills on Monday. FRIENDLY BOWLING MATCH. The following four rinks have been selected to represent the Stratford Bowling Club in a friendly match against Avon on the Stratford green to-day, commencing at 2 p.m. —C. Thompson, C. Martin, Pastier, Davis (a); Summerfield, Mills, Dixon, Liddell (s); Hickson, Lindop, McElroy, Smart (a); A. S. Martin, Clark, Hillock, Allen (a). . The finals of the full-rink competition of the Stratford club will be decided between: Lawson, Hewatt, Porritt, Skoglund (s), and Bake, Higgs, Butcher, Lyons (s). So strong was the gale on Tuesday evening that an outbuilding owned by Mr. C. H. Belcher, at Elthaiii, was unroofed. HUIROA NEWS. The last few fine days have been most welcome to the farmers of this district. It has been a work of art saving the hay in the early part of the season, but the few fine days have saved the situation and most farmers have the winter feed safely stacked. Many farmers have gone in for ensilage this season. Mrs. A. IL Bowen is visiting relatives at Bulls. Mr. A. 11, Bowen is visiting a ram fair at Hastings. . _ GENERAL ITEMS. The annual meeting of the Stratford Gun Club will be held in Petrie's Buildings to-night at 8 o’clock. Mr. J. Ford, Eltham, has returned from an extensive motor tour of the North Island. He covered 1400 miles. The secret of our succeas is based on a fair deal and a one price policy to everyone. We not only increase our business but are establishing a reputation for highclass goods, dependable and prices of the very lowest. Every article in our store is a star value and our claim is to our matchless prices. The Auckland Warehouse, general drapery and clothing store (opp. County Hotel), Stratford. KING’S THEATRE PROGRAMME. “THE LAST OF MRS. CHENEY.’’ There may be finer speaking voices than those heard in ‘'The Last of Mrs. Cheyney,” Norma Shearer’s all-talking starring vehicle for Metro-G old wyn-May - er, now playing at the King’s Theatre, but one has no idea where they may be found. Certainly Norma Shearer was the most logical choice, in this reviewer’s estimation, that Hollywood could offer for the role of the aristocratic, charming lady crook. Brilliant, beautiful and fascinating, Miss Shearer makes “Mrs. Cheyney” virtually a masterpiece in her category of superb interpretations, even excelling her splendid characterisation as the murder defendant in “The Trial of Mary Dugan." Basil Rathbone, beloved by sophisticated stage audiences, makes a happy debut on the talking screen as Lord Dilling, the _ handsome philanderer who exposes Mrs. Cheyney, and later makes amends by losing his heart and ■ marrying her. George Barraud, already familiar of face and voice to cinema-goers, is seen and heard as Charles, the suave, butler-burglar. The elaborate supporting cast included George K. Arthur, Herbert Bunston, Hedda Hopper and Cyril Chadwick.