ELTHAM PLUNKET SOCIETY

Taranaki Daily News, 14 November 1930, Page 8

ELTHAM PLUNKET SOCIETY

SHORTAGE OF MONEY REPORTED. The Eltham Plunket Society met on Tuesday when the following report of the nurse was received: —Children under 5 years under supervision, 140; babies under 2 years under supervision, 124; number of visits to homes, 48; number of visits to rooms, mothers, 102, babies, 90,' children, 33, visitors, 24; total, 249. New eases for month, 6. Mrs. Carman intimated that funds for current expenses were low, and that some effort would have to be made to raise enough money to meet the next account for the nurse’s salary. It was resolved that the executive meet the advisory board to explain the position and later call a special,meeting of the committee. GENERAL ITEMS. The final dance of the season arranged by the Eltham Fire Brigade took place on Wednesday. It was largely attended. Competition dances were won by Mrs. Parsons and Mr. Ward (Monte Carlo), Miss Ousey and Mr. Heaven (spot dance). A competition for an engraving was won by .Miss Eva Reardon. The dance music was supplied by Mrs. Attrill’s orchestra. The ladies in charge of the Catholic shop day to be held at Stratford on Saturday will be pleased to receive gifts of produce, home-made condiments, cakes, cookery and any other saleable articles.t The cricket match between Eltham and Inglewood which was to have been played yesterday was postponed on account of wet weather. MIDHIRST NEWS. Two modern butter churns have been installed at the Midhirst factory. The Oddfellows Lodge held a dance on Monday to farewell Mr. J. Boniface, who has taken the position of buttermaker at the Awatuna factory. Mr. Boniface was presented with a shaving outfit. Earlier in the day he was the recipient of a farewell token from the Midhirst factory staff. Mr. Boniface will be missed from the junior Rugby team next season. The Rev. J. MacGregor held the monthly church service .in the Denbigh Road school on Tuesday night. Methodist ladies and friends are preparing for their sale of work in the Oddfellows Hall during the first week ' in December. ./ Mrs. Steekle, New Plymouth,■’ is the guest of her daughter, Mrs. A. Kaspar, Radnor Road. KING’S THEATRE TALKIES. PLOT IN NEW COMEDY DRAMA. As natural a picture as has been seen on the screen for some time, replete with both the comic and pathetic momments of life, is being shown at the King’s Theatre in the form of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer’s all-talking production “The Richest Man in the World,” • which marks the initial screen appearance Of Louis Mann, veteran of the stage. The reasons for the life-like qualities of this picture lie in the simplicity of its story of an old German barber who has difficulties in raising a large brood of children, and the effective performances upon the part of Louis Mann in the central role and Elliot Nugent, Leila Hyams, Robert Montgomery, Francis X. Bushman Jr., Mary Doran and Jean Wood as the youthful members of the cast. How the old German patiently sticks by his children and helps them out of their respective dilemmas makes up an engrossing picture which will linger in one’s memory for a long time. ELTHAM TALKIE ATTRACTION. “THE COCKEYED WORLD.” “The Cockeyed World,” showing at the Eltham Thearte to-night, is a riot of songs, music, comedy and dancing. A few of the outstanding items are two U. S. Navy bands, Russian Balalaika! orchestra of twelve soloists, famed Mexican Marimba Band of Agua Caliente, Spanish String Band Serenaders, California jazz orchestra in Coney dance sequence, marching song of U.S. Marines, sung by 600 lusty sailors, “Elenita,” delightfully sung by exquisite Lily Damita, “So Dear To Me,” theme song beautifully rendered by Bobby Burns, night scenes at Coney Island, brilliant electrical display, sights and sounds, and forty gorgeous Venuses disporting in the bathing pools, an incomparable cast headed by Victor McLaglen, Lily Damita and Edmund Lowe. The story is of three marine on service and their love affairs in the different countries visited.