RAWHITIROA NEWS

Taranaki Daily News, 5 September 1935, Page 6

RAWHITIROA NEWS

CRIBBAGE TOURNAMENT. The last of the Rawhitiroa cribbage tournaments was held last Thursday, there being only a moderate attendance. Two players tied for first place with 9 points each, Mr. J. H. Bleakley and Mr. P. O'Connor, the former winning the play-off. The points prize for the series of tournaments held during the winter was won by Mr. M. Kitchen with 54J points, the runner-up being Mr. P. O’Connor. The president, Mr. P. Jenkins, and the secretary, Mr. G. V. Thame, were accorded a vote of thanks. There was a fair attendance at the wind-up ball in the Rawhitiroa hall on Tuesday. Silver’s Sunbeams Orchestra supplied the music, extras being given by Mrs. May and Mr. Pat O’Connor. Monte Carlo dances were won by Miss P. Silver and Mr. F. Silver, and Miss R. Cocker and Mr. R. Death, a mystery Gay Gordons by Miss Z. Campbell and Mr. S. Death, and a Monte Carlo competition by Miss Z. Campbell and Mr. S. Death. Mr. Alex Baker was master of ceremonies. ADVERTISERS’ ANNOUNCEMENTS. A euchre and dance party will be held at the Eltham parish hall this evening to assist church funds. Dance patrons of Central Taranaki are reminded of the entertainment awaiting them in the Coronation Hall, Toko, tonight, when the Toko Club is holding its annual ball. No trouble has been spared to- make to-night’s event overshadow all previous efforts. In the King’s Theatre, Stratford, at 8 p.m. on Tuesday next a political address will be given by Mr. W. J. Polson, member of Parliament for Stratford. He will speak in reply to the recent address' by the Leader of the Opposition, Mr. M. J. Savage. ELTHAM TALKIES. “THE FREEDOM OF THE SEAS.” Comedy is presented in dramatic surroundings in “The Freedom of the Seas” to be shown at the Eltham Talkies tonight and to-morrow night. The stars are Clifford Mollison and Wendy Barrie. Mollison portrays a timid clerk who is in love with his employer’s daughter, but is so timid that he is laughed at rather than loved in return. The young man joins the navy and obtains a commission, much to the surprise of the girl. At sea he received instructions to board a tramp steamer suspected of trafficking with German submarines and finds there are passengers on board—Phyllis, her father and an American chorus girl, who had been picked up shipwrecked after their ship had been torpedoed. Inspecting the tramp ship, Smith suspects that something is amiss and discovers a plot to smuggle cordite f in a grain cargo. Through the tapping toes of the chorus girl, who ingeniously works out a little dance from the tapping of a Morse message she has overheard, he learns to signal by code to the U-boat being used by his enemies on board, and in a dramatic and thrilling climax frustrates their plans, rams the submarine and wins Phyllis.