TEMUKA

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLIV, Issue 20984, 12 March 1938, Page 3

TEMUKA

THE WHEAT CROP CONDITION SATISFACTORY The opinion that this season's wheat crop was as good as any in past seasons, except for one or two slight defects, was expressed yesterday by the manager of the Temuka Flourmilling Company (Mr J. T. Smart). He said that there was a little more moisture in the grain than was usual, but this was not serious. Toward the end of December there had been a shortage of cereal and this had necessitated the importation of Australian grain, which was used for blending with the wheat grown in the district. With the exception of several bags of wheat, which were a pound or two light to the bushel, the new season’s grain was well up to the average weight. Mr Smart said that farmers were endeavouring to comply with the regulations which did not allow more than 15.6 per cent of moisture in the grain for milling purposes. Anxiety had been caused through the wet weather just before the harvest as to whethei the grain would reach the required standard, but much grain was being dried out in the field and stack. BOWLERS’ SUCCESS WOMEN WIN CHAMPIONSHIP By 21 points the Temuka women’s bowling team won the South Canterbury inter-club championship when they defeated Fairlie on the West End Club’s green on Thursday. There was a large attendance of spectators from other clubs. At the conclusion of the match the Ferguson Cup, the championship trophy, was presented to Temuka by the president of the women’s Centre, who congratulated the winners on their good performance. For the Temuka Club, Mrs A. D. Cameron acknowledged the honour and thanked the Fairlie side for the good game they had provided. The results, were (Temuka names first): — Mesdames Joynt (s), Cameron, Winter and Taylor 30 beat Mesdames Miles (s), Boulter, Geaney, Surridge 17; Mesdames Davis (s), Shand, Johnston and Whitehead 18 lost to Mesdames P. Carlton (s), Crichton, Bourn and Flanagan 20; Mesdames Fletcher (s), Marshall, Cain and Martin 26 beat Mesdames H. Carlton (s), Annan, Black and Binny 16. RANGITATA DANCE Much interest was taken in a harvest home ball held by the Rangitata Tennis Club on Thursday evening. Novelty dances were a feature of the evening, a Monte Carlo being won by Mrs W. Tate and Mr S. Southby, while Miss Flora Macdonald and Mr G. Cain won a statue waltz. Other novelties were won by Miss Macdonald and Mr S. Cain and Miss Marjorie Hearne and Mr Campbell. Music was provided by a local pianist and the master of ceremonies was Mr W. Tate. PERSONAL Miss H. Goodman, Allnatt Street, left yesterday to spend her annual holidays in Hastings and Auckland. GENERAL NEWS In preparation for the building of the model pa at Arowhenua a consignment of punga (tree fern) wood arrived in Temuka recently and yesterday a further consignment of raupo was collected. After rising from bed early yesterday morning to answer a knock, Margaret Mary Sugrue, a single woman, employed at the Arowhenua Hotel, collapsed and died. An Inquest will be held this morning. Charged with being intoxicated while in charge of a motor car, at Orari Bridge, on Thursday, Victor Howard Panton, an architect, of Timaru, pleaded guilty in the Temuka Magistrate’s Court yesterday morning before Messrs G. Hancox and T. L. Bussell, J.P.’s, and was convicted and fined £lO with costs £l/1/-. His license was cancelled until the end of the current term. "WEE WILLIE WINKIE” Kipling’s colourful characters live glamorously, adventurously and courageously in “We Willie Winkie,” which opens to-day at the Elite Theatre, with Shirley Temple and Victor McLaglen in the starring roles. From the heart of mighty India, where all the world is wild and strange, where the British raj ends at Khyber Pass, in the land of the Bengal Lancers, comes this glorious adventure of the Scottish Highlanders in action and of the little girl who won the right to wear their plaid. Life at a frontier army post in India is not too happy for Shirley and her widowed mother June Lang, for her grandfather, C. Aubrey Smith, is a gruff old disciplinarian. The youngster decides that the only way to win the Colonel’s approval is to become a soldier herself, and her friend, Michael Whalen, a young lieutenant, turns her over for training to the burly sergeant Victor McLaglen who dubs her “Wee Willie Winkie” because of the quaint way she has of screwing up her eyes when she asks questions.

Tire Temuka branch of the New Zealand Labour Party will hold a euchre party and dance in the Labour Hall on Tuesday at 8.15 p.m. The annual meeting of the Temuka Football Club will be held in the Labour Hall on Wednesday at 8 p.m. The business people of the town are requested to close their premises on Thursday for the annual school picnic. For the official opening of its four new hard courts, the Temuka Park Tennis Club will held a combined doubles tournament on Monday, March 28.