The Waipawa Mail WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1939 LOCAL & GENERAL.

Waipawa Mail, Volume LXVIII, Issue 22, 1 November 1939, Page 2

The Waipawa Mail WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1939 LOCAL & GENERAL.

The monthly sitting of the Magistrate’s Court at Waipawa will be held on Friday. Girls’ Navy Interlock Bloomers, fast color, all sizes. Price Is pair.— Bryant’s, Ltd.* Tennis players are advised that the Sports Club’s courts will be opened for play on Saturday, when the official opening will take place at 2 p.m. Ladies are requested to contribute a plate to the afternoon tea. Children’s Haircord Frocks, guaranteed fast color, 17 styles all sizes; 4s lid to 6s lid.—Bryant’s, Ltd.* To-day’s problems are solved when you visit Bryant’s Grocery.* At the trial at the Supreme Court at Napier on Monday of Godfrey Coldwell, 27, chemist’s assistant, of unlawfully supplying to Muriel Reiehelt the drug ergot and improperly interfering with a dead body, the jury, after deliberating for 35 minutes, returned a verdict of Not Guilty on both counts. Mr C. G. Harker appeared for the defence. Shortly after six o’clock yesterday morning a big slip fell in the Manawatu Gorge where widening work is proceeding just over a mile from the Woodville end, completely blocking the highway and carrying thousands of tons over the road. The slip swept away the handrailing for a considerable distance

Boys’ Navy Blazers, all sizes. Gold, red, and white cord. Price 6s 6d.—Bryant’s.* The matron of Abbotsford Home acknowledges with grateful thanks the following gifts:—Cakes and sandwiches, St..Andrew’s Ladies’ Guild, Waipukurau, Miss K. Tod (Waipawa, per Mrs Harker); butter, Mrs H. "White; jellies and honey, a Friend, Waipukurau; vegetables, Mrs N. Maitland; sack of cabbages, Mr Brown, Pakowhai; clothing and shoes, Mrs W. Rathbone; clothing, Woodville Parish; seed potatoes and shallots, Mrs J. Hamilton; saveloys, Mr Bolton; box of tomato plants, Mr Harwood. Grocery delivery! Ring 100 or instruct our canvasser to call. Deliveries mornings and afternoons from Bryant’s Busy Grocery Store.* “I am not concerned about your municipal squabbles,” said the Minister of Public Works (the Hon. R. Semple), at the opening of the Orawaiti bridge (West Coast). “You can scratch your eyes out for all I care, but to accuse my colleague and me of burning benzine to come here to support the Mayoral candidate, as was done by a human reptile lying in the columns of a newspaper, is base ingratitude. I am advised by this anonymous scribe not to take part in the contest, and to remember my duties. Fancy some humbug that doesn’t possess the gizzard of a whitebait trying to tell me my duty. The people who elected me know I know my duty, and I don’t want to be advised by an empty-headed coward and the quintessence of an unmitigated liar what to do.” 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.*

“Sorry, but I can’t give you a passenger list.” This was the reply by the chief steward of an overseas British vessel that recently arrived in New Zealand waters to an inquiry by a representative of the Press. “Seeing that the ship has safely arrived in port and that the passengers are all remaining in New Zealand, what is the reason for withholding the passenger list?” the chief steward was asked. “Apply to the Admiralty,” he answered. “They are in charge.” The captain confirmed this subsequently. H'e said that all British ships were under Admiralty orders, and the captain had to do as he was told. One of the restrictions was that passenger lists were not to be handed out on arrival at port. “I know it seems foolish to some,” he added. “But, believe me, there is a good reason for everything that is done. Some people forget we are at war,”