NEWS AND NOTES

Timaru Herald, Volume CXL, Issue 20261, 9 November 1935, Page 2

NEWS AND NOTES

The Timaru Municipal Band will give a concert in the Timaru Park tomorrow at 2.45 p.m.

All ex-service men are invited to an Armistice Service in the Congregational Church, North Street, on Sunday evening. Miss Vera Isaac will be the soloist.

The Timaru Highland Pipe Band will hold the first of a series of dances in the Scottish hall to-night with a view to raising funds to enable the band to compete at the forthcoming Wanganui contest.

On November 22, 1935. Messrs Runciman Pryor Ltd. will hold an auction sale of freehold property situated No. 40 College Road, consisting ’of modern 4-roomed brick bungalow.

In support of Ireland’s baby queen in the All Nations Pair, a euchre and dance will be held in St. Patrick’s Hall, Browne Street, to-night.

The lovely residence “Tiaora,” of the late T. Thomson will be offered at auction on Wednesday, November 20, by Morton and Co. Ltd., and Allchurch and Co. auctioneers in conjunction. The site with its spacious grounds laid out in lawns and shrubs is unequalled in Timaru and is surveyed into 4 sections and should appeal to the most fastidious, as seldom a magnificent property like this comes under the hammer. The section containing 1 rood 39 perches at the corner of Beverley Road and Evans Street will also be submitted at the same time. Cards to inspect and particulars can be obtained from the auctioneers.

Aucklander In Soviet Russia. A former Auckland journalist, Mr PL. Soljak, recently spent several weeks travelling through Europe, and visited Leningrad and Moscow. He writes that in his opinion the latter city is the bright he found that food, tobacco and cosmetics were plentiful but there was a shortage of good clothing. He noticed a large number of aeroplanes inure for commercial purposes, and building and railway construction were being carried on at full speed. The people have many opportunities for culture and pleasure, and can enjoy life on a small income. The free and easy camaraderie of the citizens, and the fact that visitors can come and go as they please, was all in keeping with reports made by other New Zealand visitors whom he had met in London. Mr Soljak mentions the valuable assistance given by the girl guides from Intourist, and also the strange impressions created by the sight the symbolic hammer and sickle on palatial buildings of the Czarist period. Mr Soljak travelled from London to Leningrad through the Keil Canal by a Soviet motor ship, and describes his fellow passengers as a mixed assemblage from almost every quarter of the globe. The crew have accommodation of the same class as that occupied by passengers. They run their own newspaper, and have lectures and discussions under the supervision of the captain, w T ho must make a report on their cultural progress at the end of each trip.

At present the only buildings on the ground at the Rongotai airport, Wellington, are the club-house, hangar, and workshop, but the use of the clubhouse is the prerogative of members 'of the Wellington Aero Club. Provision is now to be made for the commercial side of aviation, and as a start is to be made with the cook Strait services at the end of the year an administrative block is a necessity. This building, which has been designed in the city engineer’s department, has already been started and with an effort it should be ready by the end of the year, or very nearly so. This build, ing will be a wooden structure, two stories in f—nt and one behind to harmonise in its general lines with the clubhouse, but it will be erected nearer the hangar than the clubhouse, and well out of the line of normal landings. It will consist on the ground floor e c administrative offices and rest rooms for both sexes, and a luggage room and other offices. 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 souvenir programme. The illustrations include a full page picture of His Excellency the Governor-General, photog.aphs 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. .... No cessation of the persecution of Jews in Germany was noticed by Mr Gerald Morrison, of Christchurch, during a recent visit to that country. Mr Morrison said in an interview in Christchurch that anti-Jewish riots were going on all the time he was in the country —d the Jews were subjected to all sorts of restrictions, even to the using of teleDhone booths. “The Jews won’t leave the country bee "use they cannot take th.ir money with them,’ he said. “More Jews would go if they could, but Hitler sees to it that they don’t take any money with them. All people w T hen they reach the border searched to see thqt they are not taking money out of the country illegally.” 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. t .... We have just received a striking tribute to the efficacy of our rheumatic remedy Rumatos. A sufferer tn Christchurch, after having tried all remedies in vain, sent to os for Rumatox. He states that he 1s now quite nd of this long standing complaint and tils system is now restored to its original healthy state. It Is equally effectlvu for gout, lumbago or sciatica. Pries 2/6 and 4/6. E. C. Ayres, Ltd., Timaru. ....