LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Waipawa Mail, Volume XXXVII, Issue 8362, 28 July 1920, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The B grade players of the Waipawa Golf Club will visit Otane on .Saturday and play the local club. Fire and accident insurance. Patronise the State Office. —L. Pratley, agent.* Prices at all the stock sales are showing a strong upward tendency, in anticipation of an early spring. Men’s Suits, Hats, Shirts, Ties, Socks, etc., all reduced this week at Hood Bros. Sale.* Messrs Cosgrove Bros, have arranged a handicap snooker tournament to be played at their rooms. Entries close on Saturday next.* Ladies’ Blouses greatly reduced this week from 7/6 upwards at Hood Bros. Sale.* A slight error occurred in the schedule of the revised postal charges published on Monday. The cost of a money-order payable in*the United States of America and Canada will be 5u for each 2s. If we haven’t got it it is not procurable in the cities. Our new customers recognise that.—Jas. Hennessy, “The Hairdresser.”* Tuesday next will be Waipawa’s day at the Sanatorium, and it is hoped that there will be a goodly response to the Ladies’ Progressive Committee’s appeal for donations of cakes, sweets, etc. Gifts may be left at the residence of Mrs Duncan McLean, Ruataniwha street. Just landed, the very latest in music. Musical instruments, personally selected, comprising violins, ukeleles, accordeons, mouth organs, fiagolets, and music cases, etc. —L. Pratley, ’phono 83M.“ Members of the Waipawa Bowling Club are notified that the annual meeting will be held in the Chambers on Friday evening* at 8 o’clock. Men’s All-wool Sweater Coats, Sale Prices 30/-, 35/-, 45/- cash; Men's Braces 2/6, 2/11, 3/6, 4/6 cash at llood Bros. Sale.*

At Napier on Monday Walter McCarthy was fined £2O and costs for selling under-weight butter pats, alleged to contain lib. each. The shortage on a box was lib. 9oz. All Remnants going very cheap during this week for cash at Hood Bros. Sale.* At an auction sale in Timaru on Saturday a 66ft. frontage in Stafford street, the busiest part of the town, on which stand five one-storied shops, was sold for £15,000 to Hallenstein and Co. and the “Timaru Herald” Company conjointly.

Ladies’ Beaver and Velour Hats, worth up to 50/-, to clear this week at 19/6 each at Hood Bros. Sale.*

The whitebait season has commenced unusually early this year, and supplies have been on sale in Auckland for about a fortnight past. Most of the consignments are coming from the Lower Waikato. The season usually begins in August. The Haviland aeroplane which has been giving exhibition flights in Hastings and Napier for some weeks passed over Waipawa yesterday en route to Dannevirke.

The secretary’s statement at the monthly meeting of the Hawke’s Bay War Relief Association showed that the contributions received since last meeting totalled £1424 9s Id and investments repaid £5700. Relief granted to soldiers and dependents absorbed a sum of £9Bl 15s Bd, loans totalled £3937 9s 6d and payments on account of other societies £315 2s 6d. Advances refunded by soldiers and dependents amounted to £593 19s 6d. A meeting of the Ladies’ Ball Committee in connection with the School Ball will he held in the High School on Friday, at 3.30 p.m.

A wreath of arum lilies and New Zealand foliage is to be frozen and sent to London for placing- on the Nelson Memorial, Trafalgar Square, as the tribute of the Wellington branch of the Navy League to the memory of “the greatest sailor since the world began.” It will take more than two weeks to freeze clearly. The block Of ice, measuring nearly 2 feet each way, will be shipped in its zinc-lined case by the Shaw, Savill Company about the middle of August. Lime sulphur solution made from purest ingredients. Sold on 33 degree Baume test. Packed in casks, cases, and bottles. Manufactured by W. A. Amner and Sons, Napier, ObAnother preliminary effort in connection with the Catholic bazaar will be the “Paddy’s Market” to be held in the Borough Chambers on Tuesday next, opening at 10 a.m. The organisers have received many promises of gifts, and a plentiful supply of produce, cakes, and meat is assured, but other contributions will bo gratefully accepted. A side attraction will be a guessing competition, the prize for which wili be a dinner.

We have come to stay. So have our new customers. Satisfaction assured. Give us a trial.—Jas. Hennessy, Hairdresser.*

At a meeting of the Waipawa Gun Club held last evening, over which Mr F. J. Witlierow presided, arrangements were made for the holding of an open shoot on or about August 25th, the prize money for which was fixed at £2O. In addition to the cash prizes the Holden Cup will be added. Mr R. Forrest was appointed delegate to represent the club at the annual meeting of the Gun Club Association to be held at Rangiora on August 6th. The secretary reported the Otane Club’s acceptance of a challenge for the Douglas Cup. Arrangements were made for contests for the Bowen Medal and also a trophy for novices presented by Mr T. W. Wills. Mr 11.

J. Pellow was appointed mark steward and Mr E. Allen secretary’s assistant.

For the convenience of my country customers I have decided to open my saloon all day on Saturdays, closing at 1 p.m. on Wednesdays.—Jas. Hennessy, Hairdresser.* The balance-sheet of the Hawke’s Bay Farmers’ Co-operative Association, presented at the annual meeting of shareholders on Monday showed that, after making due provision for depreciation on buildings, plant, etc., the balance of profit, including £4278

2s Id brought forward from last year, amounts to £28,852 11s lid, which the directors recommended shall be allocated as follows:—To pay a dividend of 8 per cent, on paid-up share capital; to pay a further bonus of 5 per cent, on commissions contributed by shareholders (land commission excepted), making, with the 10 per cent, paid out during the year, a total rebate of 15 per cent.; to pay a further bonus of 14 per cent, on goods purchased by shareholders (sundrynet goods excepted), making, with the 21 per cent, paid out during the year, a total rebate of 3ij per cent.; to set aside the sum of £3750, from which to pay a bonus to the staff, to be distributed at the discretion of the directors; to add a sum of £BOOO to the reserve fund; and to carry the balance forward.

The following announcement has been received through the Secretary of the Post and Telegraph Department from the Postmaster-General:— From August Ist proximo each telephone exchange subscriber in the Dominion is to pay an additional £1 per annum per connection, and there is imposed an increase of 5s per quartermile for lines extending beyond the present maximum distance for which the initial rate is charged. The increase does not apply to current subscriptions due before August-Ist prox. Also the scale of charges for all communications is raised as follows: Lip to 20 miles, 6d for the first three minutes, and 2d for each additional minute or fraction thereof; up to 50 miles, 9d and 3d; 75, Is and 4d; 100, Is 6d and 6d; 150, 2s 3d and 9d; 200, 3s and Is; 250, 3s 9d and Is 3d: 300, 4s 6d and Is 6d; 350, 5s 3d and Is 9d; 400, 6s and 2s; 450, 6s fld and 2s 3d; 500, 7s 6d and 2s Od. For communications from subscribers speaking from their own telephones, half these rates up to 10s only. Night toll communications at half-rates are available from 10 p.m. instead of 8 P