LOCAL & GENERAL.

Waipawa Mail, Volume LXVI, Issue 60, 7 February 1938, Page 2

LOCAL & GENERAL.

The Railway Department ran a special train from Napier for the Wairoa races on Saturday, and it carried some 500 passengers. Notice is given by the Waipawa Ceunty Council that the WaipawaOnga Onga road will be closed to traffic for about four days, during sealing operations. Feeling fagged? Then try these— Parrishe’s Food, Is hot,; Clement’s’ Tonic, flavored or plain, 3s and 5s hot.; Bidomak, brain body and nerve builder, 3s 6<J.—Bryant’s Cash Store.* A severe storm in the north on Friday night did considerable damage to the fruit crops. One grower lost between 200 and 300 cases, and others had a number of trees uprooted. The asphalt playground of the Onga Onga School has been marked out as a miniature highway, with pedestrian crossings, etc., so that practical instruction in traffic rules may be given. Something different! Shirriff’s Cocktail Jam, 2s bot.; McLaren’s Tasty Spread, Is 8d hot.; Tasty Relish, Is 8d bot.—Bryant’s Cash Store.*

There was a very poor attendance at tfe last meeting of the Onga Onga Women’s Institute, and a special meeting is to be held on March 3rd to discuss the advisability of the institute going into recess.

Indications are that the barley yield in Canterbury will be the heaviest for some years past. Harvesting operations are, well forward, and it only requires a continuance of fine weather conditions to ensure that the completion of the harvest will be effected earlier than for some seasons.

Mr E. A. Shattky, F. 1.0., F.S.M.C. (Lond.), of Messrs Shattky and Webber, Opticians, of Hastings, visits Waipawa each Tuesday morning. Appointments at Murray’s Pharmacy.* The Railway Department announces the running of another excursion to Napier and back on Sunday, 13th February. The excursion is from the Wairarapa district, and already indications point to very heavy bookings. The excursion train is timed to arrive at Napier at 12.32 p.m. and will leave on the return at 5.35 p.m. The fares are at a very cheap rate. Details are advertised in this issue.

Brown and Poison’s Flavor Cornflour, 9d pkt.; B. and P. Cornflour, Is lb.; Edmond’s Custard Powder, Is tin; Gregg’s Food Colors, Is pkt.; Tfansell’s Food Colors, fid bottle. — ’Phone your order to Bryant’s Cash Store.* At the Supreme Court sittings at Timaru Randall Reginald David Smith was found guilty of the murder of William Gaby, an Arundel storekeeper, on September 10th and sentenced to death. When asked if he had anything to say why sentence of death should not be passed prisoner said he did not think the Judge’s summing up was fair, and he did not think the verdict was a sane one. “So far as the death sentence is concerned,” he said, “1 am not afraid of that in any wav.”

Health is the beginning of wealth, so start the day right by taking Andrew’s Liver Salts,. Is 4d and 2s 4d tin; K.P. Life Salts, Is fid and 2s fid hot.; Eno’s Fruit Salts, 2s 3d and 3s Del hot.; Cerebos Health Saline, 2s fid bot.—Bryant’s Cash Store.* Following on the consistently heavy rain which fell on Friday night and the possibility of unsettled conditions continuing for some rays, the executive of the Returned Soldiers’ Picnic on Saturday morning decided on a week \s postponement, but it was later found that this date would not lit in with the arrangements of the Railway Department, and accordingly Sunday, 20th, was finally agreed upon. The returned soldiers’ howling tournament at Waipawa, originally fixed for the 20th, has been postponed till the 27th.

Mr E. D. Savidge, representative oL‘ Azzopardi and Holland, opticians, will pay his periodical visit to Waipawa on Thursday, February 10th. Appointments may be made with Mr W. J. Harris.* Boys’ Petone bathing shorts 4s lid, men’s 10s fid; bathing togs, all colors, boys’ from Is 9d, men’s from Gs lid; boys’ and men’s sun hats, Is fid to 4s lid.—D. H. Edwards. Ltd.* Ladies’ Donegal Skirts. Usually 17s fid. Sa,le price 3s lid. —Bryant’s Sale.*

The proposal to consolidate the Marakeke school with Waipukurau has failed, some of the parents objecting to their children having to travel so far.

Boys’ strong Tweed Shorts, smart shapes. Sale price 3s fid—Bryant’s Sale.*

After a spell of bad weather there was a decided change for the better yesterday. The temperature reading was one of the highest of the summer, and the humid heat was very trying.

Men’s Blazers. To clear 10s fid, 15s, 225, 25s.—Bryant’s Sale.* At the Wellington Court, two servant girls, Mildred Gillingham and Lorn a Fahey, were each fined £2 for a breach of the private hotel employees’ award in leaving their last employer without giving notice.

“Visitors to Napier!” You are invited to make the “Trocadero” your headquarters for meals. The “Troc” is open every day—including Sundays. Ladies’ rest room and ’phone provided for use of patrons.* At a meeting of the Central Hawke’s Bay branch of the Teachers’ Institute, held at Waipawa on Saturday morning, it was decided to apply to the Education Board for permission to hold a sports meeting for the school children of Central Hawke’s Bay at Waipukurau on Friday, 25th February.

“We ought to be. ashamed to have health camps. It is a shocking state of affairs that we have them in New Zealand. Mothers and fathers should know how <0 look after their own children.” Dr. Ann G. Strony, Dean of the Faculty of Home Science at Otago University, made this statement, when speaking to Christchurch Rotarians, states the “Star-Sun.”

The school festered international relations, for its graduates went to all parts of the world, she continued. The present hostel was inconvenient and inadequate, Dr. Strong proceeded. An amount of £23,000 was required to cany out the full programme she had in mind. “I am not one to go to the Government for everything. The people of New Zealand should help themselves. After all, every social problem is bound up with home conditions,” she added.

Ladies’ Print Frocks, S.W. and W. Usually 5s lid. Sale price 2s fid. —Bryant’s Sale.*