SCOUT CAMP AT STRATFORD

Taranaki Daily News, 17 February 1933, Page 10

SCOUT CAMP AT STRATFORD

CUBS AND SCOUTS COMBINED. MAJOR COOKSEY AS INSTRUCTOR. The South Taranaki Scout Association has decided to hold a camp at Stratford tliis year. A cab camp at Manaia has been considered but it has been arranged to hold a combined camp. Major Cooksey, Hawke’s Bay, has been invited to act as instructor and adjutant. Commissioner F. W. Homer will be camp commandant, with Scoutmaster M. Thompson as deputy, and Scoutmaster Head will be quartermaster. Scoutmasters Thompson and W. H. Humphries and Mr. Mclnnes have undertaken to organise all the necessary details of the camp. The Stratford show buildings will be available in case of bad weather. The arrangement of a programme has been left in the hands of Scoutmasters M. Urquhart, Payne, Blackman and Thompson, the, general plan to be laid down by Major Cooksey. CIVIL JUDGMENTS GIVEN. PATEA AND WAVERLEY COURTS. Judgment by default was given in the following cases at the Patea Magistrate’s Court yesterday: Commissioner of Taxes v, Joseph Signal, £2 Ils 8d (10s); Patea Butchery Co. v. G. H. Galyer, £8 14s 8d (£1); F. Power v. F. H. Goodwin, £1 12s Id (8s) y R. H. Blackiston v. F. R. Nicholson, £1 Hs (10s). At the Waverley Court judgment by default was given for the' plaintiff in the following cases: Firth and Frank v. J. Prouse, £1 6s Id (8s); Firth and Frank V. G. Hoskins, £7 6s Id (17s); Firth and Frank v. A. W. Penseman, £2 19s (17s); H. J. Wilson v. M. Collinson, £6 (17s). On a judgment summons George Hill was ordered to pay G. H. Taylor 19s 6d forthwith in default 24 hours’ imprisonment. Robert Christie Greenhill, Patea, and George McWhirter Webster, New Plymouth, were each fined £2 with costs 10s for speeding through Waverley. DANCE AIDS SURF CLUB. PATEA FUNDS BENEFIT. A complete success both socially and financially, the flannel dance arranged by the Patea Surf Club held in the Foresters’ Hall on Wednesday will materially assist the club’s funds. About 50 couples attended and entered into the spirit of the evening with a gaiety that was sustained until a late hour. The musical programme was bright and varied, consisting of dance numbers interspersed with pianoforte items by Miss S. Adams and Messrs. Ray, Adams, Price and a private from the camp at Waverley. Several officers from the camp were present The excellent supper arrangements were due to the organisation of Miss D. Roberts, who was assisted by Miss O, Adams and Miss H. Papps. Messrs. McDowell (secretary), Carlyle, Richardson and Adams saw to the details of preparation and steered the function to its successful conclusion. A portion of the proceeds will be used .to transport the competing teams to the forthcoming championships at Foxton. SOUTH TARANAKI TENNIS. COMPETITION ABANDONED. Repeated wet week-ends have so interfered with the South Taranaki interclub tennis competition that it has been decided to abandon it. The residential championship tournament will be held, however. This will be the third championship gathering and will be held this year on the Park (Hawera) courts. There are men’s and ladies’ singles and doubles, the present holders of the titles being: Men’s singles, B. McCarthy, (Hawera); men’s doubles, R. McGregor and H. Wills (Eltham); ladies’ singles, Miss A. Hicks; ladies’ doubles, Misses A. Hicks (Hawera) and J. Hicks (Patea). SURF CLUB COMPETITIONS. . PATEA TEAM FOR WANGANUI. The annual competition for the Hackshaw Searle Shield will be held at Wanganui in the week-end. One team from Patea will attend, consisting of A. B. Currie (captain), Brian Currie (support), A. McDowall (beltman), H. Carlyle (Ist linesman), M. Fitzwater (2nd linesman), R. Adams (3rd linesman), J. Richardson (reelman) and A. Maxwell (patient). MERRY MUSICAL COMEDY. GRACIE FIELDS AGAIN AT HAWERA A daring innovation in screen entertainment, “Down to Earth” weaves into its plot some of Will Rogers’ shrewdest comments, and beneath its continuous flood of fun and laughter runs a significant undercurrent of some philosophy. Rogers has a well-earned reputation as a keen observer and in this picture he illustrates his own ideas and commonsense views. The picture will be shown at the Hawera Opera House finally tonight , “The cove that wrote ‘l’m Happy When I’m Hiking’ was never in the police force,” says Policewoman Grade Fields in her latest merry musical comedy, “Looking On the Bright Side,” coming to the Opera House, Hawera, tomorrow for a special season of four nights and four matinees. The reason for Gracie’s outburst is swollen feet, the “reward” for her first day on the beat She was popular with everybody but the police sergeant, and to this efficient officer Grade was a headache and a nightmare. Every time the sergeant came on the scene Gracie “lowering the dignity of the force” by playing skipping with the kiddies, singing •in the main street, “pinching” apples off the barrows and what not. Naturally, it wasn’t Gracie’s fault—she just couldn t keep her .buoyant spirits and radiant happiness within the “four walls’ of a “copper’s” uniform with «the ultimate result that Gracie herself had to come out —of the force. Not that Gracie worried about that; Gracie never worried about anything. The picture bristles with that sly fun for which the Lancashire comedienne is famous, with that fluty vocalism which invests the most ordinary ballad with real piquancy and point, and with that talent for burlesque characterisation which stamps Gracie Fields as one of the most versatile personalities of our generation,