LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Wairarapa Age, 23 May 1936, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Local body representatives, the R.S.A.j and lodges are joining to-mor-row evening in a special Empire Day service to be held in St. Matthew’s Church. The Rev. E. J. Rich will be the speaker.

The results of the Friendly Societies ’ card tournament, held on Thursday night are as follow:—Oddfellows B beat Foresters, 13/11; Oddfellows A beat Waipoua, 11/5; Hibernians beat Druids, 17/11. An, area of Crown land in the Haurangi district, Wairarapa, containing 15,173 acres has been set aside as a permanent State forest. This adjoins the existing State forest reservation in the district.

The Masterton Road Cycling Club will hold a 22-mile race to-day from the Kuripuni Triangle, starting at 2.30 p.m. The handicaps are as follow:— Condon, Morris, 4mins.; Dykes, T. Sayer, 2; Harman, Clarke, Burr, I}; Deegan, 1; Eastwood, Orsborne, scr.

Special services will be held at the Salvation Army Hall to-morrow at 7 a.m., 11 a.m., 3 p.m. and 7 p.m., the occasion being the visit of the Wellington City Young People’s Songsters. Captain Kilgour will conduct all meetings. To-night at 8 p.m. the visitors will give a special demonstration. The following registration appears in this week’s “Mercantile Gazette”: —Wallis’s Health Bakery Ltd. Regd. as a private Co. May 16. Office: Northern Approach, Queen Street, Masterton. Capital: £lOOO in 1000 ordinary shares of £1 each. Subscribers: Masterton—A. J. Wallis 333, Florence M. Wallis 333, J, Wallis 334. Objects: Bakers and pastrycooks and incidental. At the monthly meeting of the Featherston League of Mothers, a most interesting account was given by Mrs. T. R. Barrer of her recent travels in Great Britain and on the Continent of Europe. The address was followed with absorbed and eager interest. The president (Mrs. Arch. Clark) was 'in the ehair and there was a very large attendance of members. A cordial vote of thanks to Mrs. Barrer for her address was carried by acclamation. Mr. G. M. Blyth, attached to th* staff of the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd., Wellington, for the last three years, will sail on June 4 for Adelaide to take up a position with Messrs Bennett and Fisher Ltd., stock and station agents. Mr. Blyth’s work in the exportation and importation of stud stock made him widely known in New Zealand. He is taking a shipment of sheep with him to the new firm. —>(P.A.)

“Wesley Dey” will be celebrated in the Lincoln Road Methodist Church to-morrow, it being the 198th anniversary of the- conversion of John Wesley. The Rev. G. F. Stockwell will conduct both services, preaching in the morning on Wesley’s personal characteristics and at night on “What Wesley’s Conversion has meant to the World.” At the morning service the juniorchoir will sing ‘ ‘ The Banner of the Cross,” and in the evening the anthem will be “Saviour, Thy Children Keep.” The services at Kuripuni will be conducted by the Bev. W, McDonald in the morning and Mr. Rutter at night. The Solway evening service will be taken by the Rev. W. McDonald. Young man wanted for sheep farm. Messrs C. C. Ross & Co., land agents, insert particulars of two dairy farms for sale. Messrs H. M. Morton & Son, land agents, advertise details of 35 acres freehold for sale. Contributions of jam will be gratefully received by the management of Sedgley Home, as stocks are low. The Sunshine Kindergarten and Preparatory School will reopen in the common room, St. Matthew’s Parish Hall on Monday next. Jubilee Kindergarten and Preparatory School will re-open for the winter term on Tuesday next in Knox Primary Room, Worksop Road. To-day the Wairarapa Farmers are making a special feature oi silk ring velvets for evening wear. See change of advertisement on this page.