LOCAL & GENERAL.

Waipawa Mail, Volume LXVI, Issue 94, 16 May 1938, Page 2

LOCAL & GENERAL.

At last week’s polls both Waitara and Inglewood, in Taranaki, carried Saturday closing. A complete eclipse of the moon took place on Saturday evening about eight o’clock. The phenomenon was observed in Waipawa under the best possible conditions, the sky being cloudless. Shoe Special! Boys’ black shoes, guaranteed solid leather, half price. Sizes 7-10, 7s lid; 11-1, 8s lid; 2-7, 9s lid.—Bryant’s Busy Store.* The Napier-Taupo road, which sustained very considerable damage in the recent flood, is now open for light traffic, but careful driving is necessary. A total of £20,500 will be required to pay for labor to repair slips and washouts on the roads in the Hawke’s Bay County. This total does not include work required on main or State highways or repairing bridges. Children’s raincoats, sou’wester to match, in red, blue, brown, and green. Special price, 10s 6d to 14s 6d.— Bryant’s Busy Store.* A typographical error in the returning officer’s official declaration of the Borough Council poll as published in the “Mail” on Friday evening gave Mr H. T. Limbriek’s figures as 286 instead of 296, giving him a clear majority of two, whereas at the first count it was announced that he and Mr G. Harvey had tied with 294. 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.*

“Those of us who have been overseas must regard physical education in New Zealand as really pitiful,” said Mr W. L. S. Britton in an address on his European experiences to the annual conference of the New Zealand Technical School Teachers’ Association. “It is almost as pitiful as our library system, in most cases, ’ ’ he said.

New stock of oily canvas clothing. Leggings, 6s lid; short c,oats, 16s 6d; riding eoats, 355; sou’westers, 3s 6d. Bryant’s Busy Store.* The Onga Onga branch of the Women’s Division of the Farmers’ Union will hold their first annual dance in the hall on Wednesday night next. Great eai'e is being taken to make this dance a huge success. Les. Henry’s orchestra is supplying the music, and the supper is to be a special feature. 'Visitors from surrounding districts will be very welcome and assured of a most enjoyable evening. Commencing at’eight p.m. with popular prices—ladies 2s, gentlemen 3s.

Overcoats! We’ve never before had such a large range of men’s and boys’ overcoats. English and New Zealand makes in the latest cloths and styles. Men’s ranging from 36s to 1265, boys’ from 13s 6d to 455. D. H. Edwards Ltd.*

Disqualification from attendance at Rugby football matches until he apologised to the Ashburton Rugby Union was the penalty imposed by the management committee of the union on a spectator who spoke abusively to the referee at Springburn on Saturday, states the “Press.” The report of the referee (Mr C. W. Wellman), who declared the senior match between Springburn and Methven off when the spectator refused to leave the ground, was taken in committee. It was reported that the match would be played again at Springburn at the end of the first round if possible. Labor laws are no concern to Jack Frost, but you can knock him badly in our warm winter underwear. Warm singlets and underpants, 3s 6d to 18s 6d; winter pyjamas, soft and warm, 8s lid to 18s 6d; ten dozen boys’ warm pyjamas, 3s lid to 5s Gd. —D. H. Edwards, Ltd.* “It comes as a rude shock that men who are spending half a crown a day on opium smoking are receiving 21s a week out of public funds. It is a matter which requires investigation. If the unemployment inspectors inquired carefully into their affairs, it seems incredible that these men, who have been convicted and heavily fined, could have been the subject of relief.” The above remarks were made by Mr J. H. Luxford, S.M., in the Wellington Magistrate’s Court on Friday, when two Chinese, who were stated to he on sustenance, were convicted of being found in possession of prepared opium. Fresh provisions twice weekly— Saveloys, Is doz.; luncheon sausage, lOd lb.; pork sausages, lOd lb.; pickled pork, Is 6d lb.; cooked ham, 2s 6d lb.; lard, lid lb.; Whariti butter, always fresh, Is 5d lb.—Bryant’s Cash Store*

For an interval the other day the activities of the staff of a Blenheim mercantile firm’s office were suspended as the occupants of the room became aware of qn unmistakeable odor of burning cloth. A thorough search was instituted, and although the evidence of fire had increased to the extent where smoke was visible in the room, its origin defied all attempts at discovery. Eventually one of the clerks went into an adjoining room and immediately saw the reason for the trouble —on a coat rack was an overcoat from which smoke was rising in’ considerable volume. To his consternation one of the staff remembered that he had left his pipe in his coat pocket, and it must have been still alight. The pocket lining and portion of the garment had been badly burnt. In other circumstances the result might have been a serious outbreak of fire—origin unknown. The new Lux knitting books are here again—bigger and better than ever. Free with every 2 large packets of Lux for Is 6d.—Bryant’s Cash Store.* That bedtime drink—coffee to suit all tastes. Symmington’s, Is and Is lOd bottle; Strang’s De Luxe, Is 0d bottle; Big Value, Is bottle, quart bottles, 2s 9d each; Strang’s soluble, Is 5d tin; coffee beans, freshly ground while you wait, 2s 6d lb.—Bryant’s Cash Store.*

A subscription list for the relief of the sufferers by the recent flood in Northern Hawke’s Bay has been opened at the Borough office, and contributions are invited, also gifts of clothing and household materials. Children’s warm undervests, short sleeves. Usually 2s 6d. Special price Is 6d; all sizes, 22 to 34. Bryant’s Busy Store.* Presented to a meeting of the Christchurch committee of the Pearson Memorial Fund for the Blind was a 17-page balance-sheet dealing with the handling of the committee’s Lord Nuffield Trust Fund accounts for the year (reports the, Christ"hurch “Press”). The document was an itemised list of all the transactions in the account, and it drew the admiration of the chairman, Mr H. Holland, and others who saw it, because it was the unaided work of the blind secretary of the committee, Mr T. W. AVoods. On most of the typed pages appeared column after column of figures, and in the whole seventeen pages there was not a single letter or figure out of place, nor any sign of a correction. The preparation of such a balance-sheet would have been a long and arduous job for a typist with all the faculties, and for a blind man it represented remarkable accuracy.