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Wairarapa Age, 5 April 1928, Page 4

There was a record attendance at the Town Hall, Greytown, on Tuesday night, when Miss Vida Roband, of Morison Bush, was crowned Queen of the Carnival. A dance was held after the ceremony, the music being supplied by Te Tau’s Orchestra. The door takings amounted to about £6l.

The Salvation Army, Feilding, Silver Band and choristers, a party of 34, will arrive in Masterton on Good Friday afternoon. The band will start its series of meetings with an open air gathering iff Queen Street, at 7 p.m. and will then march to the Municipal Hall and play the hymns and a selectien at the united service. On Saturday the visitors will give a varied programme in the (Citadel at 8 p.m. and on Sunday at 11 a.m. and 7 p.m. will hold services in the same hall. At 3 p.m. another programme will be given in Masterton Park and at 8.15 the band will make its final appearance, after church, in the Opera House. The Old Boys’ Cricket Club held its first annual dance in the Masonic Hall, Chapel Street, Masterton, last night. The gathering was quite a successful one, some eighty couples attending. Good music was supplied by Mills’s Orchestra and the duties of M.C. were ably carried out by Mr D. Falloon. Extras were played by Messrs F. Beckingsale and D. Falloon. Supper was pro vided by the Old Girl©’ Association and friends of the clubjTthe arrangements for the evening being in the ha <ds of Mesdames D. Edwards, Ruth erf ord and Caverhill. Messrs F. Law and 'i. Gee, the joint social secretaries, carried out their duties to the satisfye t:on of all.

The fire at Winstone’s oil store, which broke out last Sunday afternoon, has considerably abated and it is evident, an Auckland Press Association message states, that the end is quickly approaching. The funeral of Fireman R. G. Beuth, victim of the fire, was hell yesterday afternoon and was most impressive, close on ten thousand people lining the route. The coffin was borne on the fire engine of which deceased had charge as driver last Sunday. In the procession were about one hundred firemen, sixty members of the police force and also tramwaymen, a St. John Ambulance squad, and the band of H.M.S. Diomede. A striking tribute to the deceased was paid at the graveside by the Rev. R. G. Coats, who conducted the service, with the Bev. W. E. Gillam, Brigade Chaplain, and Captain T. J. Watts, secretary of the New Zealand Fire Brigades’ Association.

Freshly-picked tomatoes for sale. Half-draught gelding strayed from Memorial Park. Mr. Peter Kelly desires to notify the public that his shop will be closed from April 6 tp 16. Legal offices in Masterton and elsewhere in the Wairarapa will be closed from 4.30 this afternoon until 9 a.m. on Monday, April 16. The annual re-union of the Masterton Football Club will be held in the Savage Club Rooms on Saturday evening next at 8 o’clock, when a presentation will be made to Mr. I. H. Harvey. Messrs. Fly & Young, Ltd., advertise an excursion motor trip to Castlepoint on Easter Sunday, leaving Masterton at 8 a.m. The firm have just purchased a handsome seven-seater sedan, and will run this and their Cadillac twelveseater if sufficient inducement is offering.