GERALDINE

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXV, Issue 18502, 25 February 1930, Page 13

GERALDINE

PERMISSION FOR LOAN. The Geraldine Borough Council has obtained permission to borrow £346 to meet its share of the cost of tar-seal- » ing and bitumen work carried out on a j portion of the Christchurch-Dunedin main highway, within the borders of the borough. CRICKET. In a cricket match, played against Waimataitai, at Timaru, on Saturday, Geraldine proved victors by two runs. Details of the match are as follows: GERALDINE First Innings. Harper, c Williams, b Roper .. ..11 Cain, c Fisher, b Williams .. .... 2 J. Callanan, b Williams 10 Houlihan, b Taylor 9 E. Scott, b Fairbrother 18 S. Callanan, -b Taylor 5 C. Williams, b Taylor 0 Upritchard, c Fairbrother, b Williams *0 Knight, c Fairbrother, b Taylor .. 1 j Bethune, b Fairbrother *1 | Stringer, not out 0 Extras 11 j Total 68 i Bowling analysis: Roper 1 for 14. j Williams 3 for 31; Taylor 4 for 7; Fairbrother 2 for 4. WAIMATAITAI. First Innings. Fairbrother, b Houlihan 17 Morgan, b Scott 2 Morrison, b Harper 6 Taylor, b Houlihan 18 E. Williams, lbw, b Houlihan .... 0 Fisher, c Scott, b Houlihan 13 Roper, c Harper, b Cain 1 Stapleton, c Harper, b Houlihan . . 1 E. A. Williams, c Callanan, b Houlihan 0 Hayes, not out 4 Jones, c and b Cain 0 Extras 4 Total 66 Bowling analysis: E. Scott 1 for 20; Harper 1 for 20; Houlihan 6 for 16; Cain 2 for 4. CANCER CAMPAIGN. In response to appeals from the Canterbury Branch of the British Empire Cancer Campaign Society for active support and contributions to the funds to enable further research work to be carried out and increased supplies of radium made available to combat cancer, the chairman of the Geraldine County Council, Mr K. McKenzie, and the Mayor of Geraldine, Mr J. Kennedy, have decided to provide the people of Geraldine district with an opportunity to help in the cam- - paign. An appeal is made to the residents : of the district to forward donations to the Geraldine Borough Council office. All contributions will be forwarded to | the secretary of the Canterbury branch. ! and will be acknowledged through the j newspapers.

HARVEST IN FULL SWING. I The summer weather now being ex- J perienced is rapidly ripening cereal j crops. The reaper and binder is busy throughout the district, and a large j number of healthy-looking crops are | standing in stook, or are being carted into stack. The threshing of oats is proceeding, and one crop of 73 bushels to the acre of Garton oats is reported from the Orari Bridge district. No wheat of any consequence has been threshed to date. • . PERSONAL ITEMS. Captain and Mrs C. J. Kerr, “Maungatua,” The Downs, have returned from Dunedin. Mr Bruce Logan, of Geraldine, is at present attending a Methodist Conference in Wellington. Mr and Mrs H. V. Firman, who have been visiting Christchurch, are expected home to-day. Mr C. C, Robieson. who has been j visiting Geraldine, left yesterday l I Invercargill. j Miss Kenyon, England, is the guest | of Miss Tripp, Orari Gorge, for a few j days. . . 1 Miss Margaret Cam, who has been

spending a few days with her parents in Geraldine, has returned to Ashburton.

Mr C. C. Knight, manager of the Geraldine Municipal Theatre, will leave on a business trip to Wellington on j Wednesday, and he will make an in- j spection of a number of the North Is- ' land theatres. He will be relieved by | Mr F. Knight, of Timaru. GENERAL NEWS. ! “There are a large number of paddocks both in the Borough and its sur- , j roundings where thistles are seeding , freely,” a resident pointed out yesterj day afternoon. It would only be a j small matter, he said, if the various owners cut them down at the present time, and it would save the spreading j of a tremendous amount of seed. A deep pool still replaces the ford to Raukapuka at the end of Wilson Street, but the ford at the swing bridge is now being used for traffic. The Wilson Street crossing, in its present con- ! dition, presents rather a menace to a i stranger if approached from the Raukapuka side on a dark night. “BEAUTIFUL, BUT DUMB.” “Beautiful, But Dumb," a romance of business, will be screened at the Municipal Theatre this evening. The picture stars the beautiful brunette, Miss Patsy Ruth Miller. An alluring blonde. Gretel Yoltz, plays the role of Mae, the ! blonde art editor who gives Patsy Ruth Miller the much-needed lesson in polite vamping. The story is one of a private secretary so sternly efficient tnat her young and handsome boss has •never noticed that she is a very beautiful girl, and that she is in love with him. Mae, who sees the beginning of the drama unfold, turns mistress of deportment and costume, and Janet becomes a very different sort of person. Supports include a comedy, Gazette and scenic. i