CROQUET SEASON BEGUN

Taranaki Daily News, 17 October 1935, Page 8

CROQUET SEASON BEGUN

PARK CLUB OFFICIAL CEREMONY.

The croquet season in South Taranaki commenced yesterday with the official opening of the Park Club at Hawera. Heavy rain in the early afternoon prevented play on the lawns, though in an interval of fine weather three competitions were played. .. A welcome was accorded visitors from the Hawera and Okaiawa clubs and members by the. president, Mrs. J. W. Harding. Best wishes for a successful season were expressed by the Mayoress of Hawera, Mrs. J. E. Campbell who drove the first ball through the hoop and declared the season opened. Mesdames W. G. Strange (Hawera) and Williams (Okaiawa) spoke for the visitors and Mrs. Harding presented a floral spray to Mrs. Campbell. Competitions were won as follows: Ring the bell, Mrs. Williams; circle croquet, Mrs. Guy; crazy ladder croquet, Mrs. Reece.

ADVERTISERS’ ANNOUNCEMENTS.

Smith and Trim Ltd. advertise particulars of the mart sale at Hawera today at 1.30 p.m. of a three-seater Ford car converted to a truck, poultry including a hen and 12 chickens, half a ton of. Sutton’s Supreme seed potatoes, a good assortment of furniture and sundries and vegetables. Entries for the commercial examinations to be conducted next month by the Hawera Chamber of Commerce in conjunction with the Wellington Chamber close at Hawera with the secretary, Mr. R. S. Sage, to-morrow (Friday) night at 8 o’clock. HUMOUR AT GRAND TO-NIGHT. STORY OF SCOT AND IRISHMAN. — A human, down-to-earth and robustly humorous story of a self-made Irishman and a Scots’ man who were the best of enemies Paramount’s “McFadden’s Flats,” will come to the Grand Theatre,

Hawera, to-day for a two-night season with Walter C. . Kelly, “The Virginia Judge” of American vaudeville and radio fame, in the leading role. Andy Clyde, popular screen comedic . is cast as the Scot and the friendly enemy of Kelly, who has risen from hod-barrier to the builder of the grand new McFadden tenements. All turns out happily in the end with the two ancient enemies united and happy in the engagement of their respective offsprings. An added attraction is the technicolour “Legong,” which deals with primitive romance on the beautiful Isle of Bali.