TEMUKA

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 19314, 15 October 1932, Page 22

TEMUKA

WEEK-END FISHING The Opihi will not be favourable for fishing over the week-end, owing to discoloration, said the ranger to the South Canterbury Acclimatisation Society (Mr F. W. Pellett) yesterday. All other rivers should be in good order for fishing. Mr Pellett said that the season so far had proved quite satisfactory. Bags of a good size seemed to be the luck of most anglers. He added that he had had had occasion to report several people for fishing by illegal means. TRAFFIC GUIDES. The porcelain studs at the Post Office corner, for the direction of traffic were removed yesterday, and their place taken by four circular white guides. Similar guides were marked out at the corner of King and Commerce Streets. Parking places in different parts of the town were marked out by the Traffic Inspector (Mr W. R. Ashwell). During a spare minute the inspector was seen painting the regulation colour on the rear mudguard of a local resident’s bicycle. MAORI AGRICULTURAL ASSOCIATION. A meeting of the Maori Agricultural Association was held yesterday afternoon, Mr C. Taipana presiding. Mr W. Stafford of the Department of Agriculture, was unable to be present to give an address on the conditions most suitable to the growing of beans, for which a section has been set aside at the Pa. Correspondence in this connection was read from a Dunedin firm. W.C.T.U. The monthly meeting of the Women’s Christian Temperance Union was held yesterday afternoon in the Methodist Sunday School. Mrs Hewson presided over a large attendance. Mrs Roberts took the devotions. Bible reading and prayer, after which Mrs Bligh sang a solo. A vote of sympathy was passed with Mrs Elder and Mrs Tw r entyman in their bereavement. The pledge was repeated, and correspondence and accounts dealt with. A paper on “Bible in Schools" was read by the president and it was decided to send a resolution to the Member for Temuka, in favour of the Bill being passed in the interests of the young children. Miss Buck, on behalf of the Y Branch, thanked the Adult Union for the donation of the cake for their recent birthday, and presented the Union with a block of the cake, and this was handed round. Afternoon tea w-as served, the hostesses being Mesdames Reid, Hewson and Miss Hewson. Mrs Douglas gave a full and interesting report on the Provincial Convention recently held in Sydenham, and was acorded a hearty vote of thanks. Mrs Hewson closed the meeting with the Benediction. GENERAL NEWS. It is not expected to take the first train over the Opihi River new railway bridge for about six weeks. Fine sunny weather yesterday further assisted the growth brought about by Monday night’s rain. NOTES. The Temuka Young Women’s Club Will hold a dance in the Parish Hail next Wednesday evening. A dance will be held in the Te Awa School on Labour night. A Labour night dance will be held in St. Joseph’s Hall by the Temuka Alexandrovna Lodge. The Temuka Technical School blade shearing class will open on Tuesday.

“RIDERS OF PURPLE SAGE." That perfect combination of romance and action comes in "Riders of the Purple Sage,” which opens at Temuka to-day, to make it one of the recommended pictures of the day. George O’Brien, as Lassiter, the heroic stranger, has the finest role of his career; Marguerite Churchill is beautiful and convincing as Jane Withersteen, owner of the historic ranch that Lassiter saves from the depredations of Noah Beery, who plays a villain you ache to hiss, Sanley Fields and Frank McGlynn, jr., and their organised henchmen. Others who do work that is more than creditable are James Todd, Yvonne Pelletier and little Shirley Nails, a real screen “find” of three years of age. O’Brien, a lone rider of the chapparral, looking for a sister w'ho has strayed away from home many years past, comes to the ranch of Marguerite Churchill, whose grazing lands and herds of cattle are coveted by Noah Beery, corrupt head of a Law and Order Society. O’Brien pursues Beery’s underlings, when they rustle Miss Churchill’s cattle, and comes on traces of his lost sister. When he learns she is dead he recovers her two children and punishes Beery. Then he escapes with Miss Churchill and baffles the pursuit of the Beery faction. There is a pleasing array of supports, including one of the popular Harry Lauder series entitled “Somebody’s Waiting for Me.” The matinee commences at 2.15 p.m.

Mr E. Cliolerton, representing John R. Procter, Ltd., may be consulted on all defects of eyesight at the Crown Hotel, Temuka, on Saturday. October 29th