NEWS AND NOTES

Timaru Herald, Volume CXL, Issue 20259, 7 November 1935, Page 2

NEWS AND NOTES

In connection with the pageant “Old Days in England,” to be staged in the Timaru Park on Saturday, December 7 next,, by the South and Mid-Canter-bury Federation of Women’s Institutes, the well-known printer, Hector C. Matheson, has produced a well* illustrated and beautifully printed sou. venir programme. The illustrations Include a full page picture of His Excellency, the Governor-General, photographs of many leading members of the institutes taking part, as well as various scenes from the pageant itself shown by members in costume. The souvenir is now on sale, and should fill the need of a book of a local interest to send to friends abroad

The Usual weekly dance will be held in the Drill Hall this evening.

To-morrow, commencing at 1.30 p.m., Morton and Co. will sell by auction on the section, LeCren’s Terrace, next South Canterbury Club, a large quantity of useful timber and about 200 sheets heavy roofing iron, being the material of two dwellings. Particulars appear in our auction columns

A great many public and native schools throughout New Zealand will be used as polling booths on the day of the general election, Wednesday, November 27, and these,:of course will be closed for the whole of the day. An announcement in the “Education Gazette,” however, draws attention to the requirement of the Electoral Act, 1927, that all public and native schools not so used must be closed from noon on the polling day.

How the schoolchild's year shall be divided between work and play is always decided well in advance by the Education Department, so that there is really no excuse for that often repeated query, “When do the holidays begin?” Dates for terms and vacations in 1936 proposed by the Canterbury Education Board have been approved by the department as follows:—First term, Monday, February 3 to Friday, May 8, then, a two weeks' vacation; second term, Monday, May 25, to Friday, August 21, then a two weeks’ vacation; third term, Monday, September 7, to Friday. December 18. From the end of ther third term the long vacation will continue until Tuesday, February 2, 1937.

H. Allchurch and Co. will sell at their rooms at 1.30 to-morrow, one Ford 4-ton truck in real good order. This truck is being sold regardless of value

H. Allchurch will hold a continuation sale of superior household furniture and effects at No. 20 Nelson Terrace at 2 o’clock to-day on account of Mr A. Targuse. This sale had to be stopped yesterday owing to heavy rain setting in. Further particulars will be seen in the auction columns and further information in case of wet weather to-day. Piease look up auction column advertisement

His first experience in railway travel by means of a small car was enjoyed recently by the Prime Minister, T'r Forbes, who visited Napier for the purpose of addressing the Associated Chambers of Commerce conference. Mr Forbes, accompanied by his private secretary, Mr C. A. Jeffery, the General Manager of Railways, two members of the Railways Department's staff and two Wellington journalists, left Wellington at 7.50 in the morning and arrived at Napier in 5 hours 14 minutes as compared with seven or eight hours by ordinary train. The rail car in which the party travelled observed all the rules governing a running train, slowing down to ten miles an hour to exchange tablets and also for crossings with trains. It also stopped twelve minutes at Palmerston North. Mr Forbes was obviosuly enthusiastic at his experience, and discussed the car’s performance at the conference and at other gatherings, describing it as an example of the future of rail travel. The car in which thp party made the trip was that reserved for the special use of the General Manager of Railways. It is much smaller than those which ar» to be put into commercial service early next year.

Dr R. J. Tillyard, of Canberra, Australia, former head of the division of economic entomology of the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research of Australia, has been engaged by the Canterbury College Council to give a lecture in Christchurch on November 25 on “The Earliest Records of Life on the Earth.” Dr Tillyard will give the annual Cawthron lecture at Nelson this month.

It was announced at a meeting of the Wellington Navy League that Vice-Admiral J. E. T Harper will be visiting New Zealand in a month’s time. Admiral Harper is an old boy of Christ’s College, and has not been in New Zealand since he was a midshipman 42 yearq ago. He was the first New Zealander to reach flag rank in the naval service. He will arrive in Wellington on December 4. The visit will last till the end of February.

Nervita Is recommended where a restorative tonic is required. For the aches and pains of neuritis it is unequalled. As a tonic it increases mental activity and is a boon to anyone rundown through overwork or worry. It improves circulation, restores the appetite, and imparts muscular power and vigour to the whole system. Price 2/6 and 3/6. E. C. Ayres. Ltd., chemists. Timaru.

We have just received a striking tribute to the efficacy of our rheumatic remedy Rumatox. A sufferer in Christchurch, after having tried all remedies in vain, sent to us for Rumatox. He states that he is now quite rid of this long standing complaint and his system is now restored to its original healthy state. It is equally effective for gout, lumbago or sciatica. Price 2/6 and 4/6. E. C. Ayres, Ltd., chemists, Timaru.