The Waipawa Mail FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1928. LOCAL & GENERAL.

Waipawa Mail, Volume XLIX, Issue 149, 7 September 1928, Page 2

The Waipawa Mail FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1928. LOCAL & GENERAL.

Tenders close at noon to-morrow with the Waipawa County Council for the contract for carting metal from the river-bed to the crusher and for delivering crushed metal on the Waipawa-Te Aute road. A Roman Catholic Priest, Father Joseph Duffy, aged 41, of Papakura, was fined £5 by Mr Hunt, S.M., in the Police Court on Wednesday, for being intoxicated whilst in charge of a motor car in the city on Tuesday afternoon. Tomato Plants. —For October planting. Grown from the best selected seed'—Sutton’s Best of All, Sutton’s Premier, Early Danish. Boxes of 54 plants 5s 6d. Order now. —Williams and Kettle, Ltd,*

A meeting of members of the Waipawa Football Club will be held in the training room at 7.30 o’clock to-night. At Greymoutli to-day Joshua Thomas Carson (25) was fined £5 with costs on a charge of assaulting a l'oui-year-old girl. Tile police did not proceed with a charge of indecent assault. —(Press Assn.). Here’s an offer not to be overlooked. Celanese underwear —bloomers, skirts in pink, sky, hclio, creme, black, and navy—this week at Brvant and Co.’s.*

A special meeting of the Borough Council will be held this evening for ihe purpose of dealing with several important matters, including the heating of the theatre, electrical pumping,

Floral Cretonnes.—A very choice range of floral cretonnes in new designs and colorings, is now on show at" Bryant and Co.’s. Priced from Is 5d to 3s 3d yard.*

A large party of members of the Wellington Savage Club will he passing through Waipawa next week en route to Wairoa and Gisborne to pay visits to the Savage'Clubs in those towns. On the return journey they will spend a night in Waipawa, and give a performance for the entertainment of members of the local club on Monday, 17th inst. The visit is being looked forward to with great interest.

Tomato Plants. —Locally grown and free from disease. Strong, healthy plants, available for October and November. Special quotations for quantities. Order from Williams and Kettle, Ltd.* At a novelty fair held at Dunedin yesterday, to assist the fund for erecting a new Caversham Presbyterian Church, the pastor, the Rev. Ferguson Fish, read a letter from Mr T. K. Sidey, M.P., stating that in his opinion the time had arrived for him to fulfil his promise to make a donation of £IOOO, for which sum he enclosed a cheque. Ladies’ Fugi Silk Nightdresses.—An exceedingly choice range of fugi silk nightdresses, trimmed with lace and insertion, also embroidered and hemstitched, are now selling at Bryant and Co.’s from 15s 6d.*

At th hearing of a charge of speeding against a service car driver, at the Magistrate’s Court yesterday, the borough traffic inspector gave evidence that the defendant said “he had no time to waste as he had to run from Wellington to Napier and hack in one day, and lie had papers to deliver.” The Magistrate: “I hope that is not true. It is perfectly evident that it was asking too much for a man to drive from Wellington to Napier and back in one day.” “Granose” as a breakfast food has no equal. “Granose” is made from the whole wheat, and is all wheat and nothing else. “Granose” is packed by the Sanatarium Health Food Co., and is sold at Is a packet at Bryant’s.* At the 'Sussex village of Etchingham, says a Kingswood reader of the “Morning Post,” until half a century or more ago, when it became extinct, an ancient Saxon family named Sneppe, settled there from before the Conquest, was one of the institutions of the parish. The Sneppe family’s death warning took the shape of a white owl, which beat itself against the window pane of the apartment in which any member of the family lay dying. “The butter that’s always fresh.” That’s our famous bulb. We turn it over so quickly that it hasn’t got time to get stale. Our bulk butter is the best that money can buy. Get it at Bryant’s.*

The quarterly meeting of the Waipawa Licensing Committee was held at the Courthouse at noon yesterday. Present-—Messrs A. M. Mowlem, S.M. (chairman), W. Chambers, J. J. Langridge, W. Johnston, 11. C. Collett and C. H. Critehley. Two applications for the permanent transfer of licenses were, approved as follows: — Makotuku Hotel, Thomas Wilson Penny to Harry Roberts; Railway Hotel, Otane, Public Trustee to Caroline Alberta Searle. The police reports on the conduct of the hotels in the licensing district were favorable in all cases, and the chairman, in commenting on this, expressed the hope that this condition of affairs would long continue. Your great opportunity for ten days only—2s per cent, off our entire stock of boys’ and men’s pullovers and cardigans. We must have room for heavy stocks arriving.—D. H. Edwards and Co.* “There’s nothing so tiresome as the same old thing.” Well, then, if you are tired of tea and coffee try “Ovaltine.” It is more than a drink —it’s a food as well. Bryant’s sell “Ovaltine” in three sizes. See them about it.* Your great opportunity for ten days only—2s per cent, off our entire stock of boys’ and men’s pullovers and cardigans. We must have room for heavy stocks arriving.—D. H. Edwards and Co.*