LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Waipawa Mail, Volume XLV, Issue 151, 17 September 1923, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The receipts of the “Florodora” production by Masterton amateurs for the seven nights’ season amounted to £661. Concert and dance, St. Peter’s Guild, St. Peter’s Schoolroom, tonight, B.* An oil-burning light cruiser of the “D” class is expected to replace H.M.S. Chatham next year as the flagship of the New Zealand Naval Division. Holders of free places in secondary schools may now remain until the end of the year in which they attain their seventeenth birthday. Hitherto a free place holder had to leave on reaching the age of seventeen. According to a “Gazette” notice published, it is now provided that certificated teachers employed on the staff of junior high schools shall be grouped and graded as follows: —£650 to £7OO, grading group 6; £450 to £SOO, group 5; £4OO to £350, group 4; £320 to £350, group 3; £2BO to £3lO, group 2. A meeting of the Waipawa Progressive Association will be held on Wednesday eveuing, at 7.30, to further consider the War Memorial and other questions of general interest. A large attendance is specially desired. The last shipment of cattle for Australia for the time being was put aboard the Waihora at Wellington on Saturday, the number being 700. This is the sixth shipment during the season. Reference is made in the Diocesan Synod reports to the Abbotsford Home which it is proposed to establish in Waipawa. Plans and specifications are in course of preparation, and the work should be begun almost immediately. Men’s felt hats. If you wear size 6i(, 7-8 or 7, don’t miss the chance of picking up one of our pure fur English felt hats. A little sample lot of 40 hats has been sent us, and being samples are being sold at sample prices. They’re great buying from 16s 6d at D. H. Edwards and Co., the Men's Store.*

Shearing trousers. We are showing a special line of tough working trousers, especially made for shearing'. Soft texture and very tough wearing, 10s 6d the pair. Only at D. H. Edwards and Co., the Men’s Store.'* Men’s summer singlets! Just opened, a complete stock of men’s singlets and underpants for the warm weather. Cannot be beaten for value, 3s 3d, 3s lid, 4s lid, 5s 6d.—Bryant and Co., Waipawa.* The Duustan correspondent of a southern exchange states that a Maniototo sheepfarmer, recently deceased, has left legacies of £IOOO each to the Anglican, Roman Catholic, Salvation Army, and Presbyterian Orphanages and £IOOO to the Ross Home for Old People. The sum of £3OOO has been left to the Mauiatoto Hospital and £2OO each to the local churches. “Which do you consider the most profitable lamb for a farmer to produce?” was a question asked Mr D. Jones,, ehainjian of the Meat Board, at Methven. The reply was that the most profitable carcase to catch the prime grade was that which went the nearest to 421 b., without going into the next grade. He was of the opinion that this country sends away far too many carcases under 361 b. weight. The report on St. Hilda’s Home, presented to the Diocesan Synod, states that the institution has done splendid work during the year, but has been full for a long time, and very many applications for admission have had to be refused. It is not intended to enlarge the home, as the policy of the Chapter is to provide real “homes” not large institutions. Miss Waller’s work as matron was spoken of in the highest terms of appreciation. She has made the home undoubtedly a model of what such homes should be.

! The housewives of this district are reminded that Bryant’s, the big store, Waipawa, have good stocks of all household goods, sheetings, calico, pillow cotton, towels, forfars. Everything you require can be had from us at the keenest possible prices.— Bryant and Co., Waipawa.* Children’s washing frocks in Paisley patterned foulards and prints, very smart styles, and the prices range from 3s 6d to 6s 6d.—Bryant and Co., Waipawa.*