BULLS

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 20012, 1 December 1927, Page 2

BULLS

GENERAL NEWS This eevning an operetta entitled I “Golden Hair and the Three Bears” will be staged at the Town Hall, by pupils of St. Francis ’ Convent School, Marton, and the proceeds will be donated to distressed families in the district. Upwards of 60 children will take part in the production and their training is said to reflect great credit upon their teachers. It is expected that townspeople will respond generously to <£ the an sc that needs assistance.” Members of the Rangitikei L0.0.F. Lodge, No. 14, will attend at the Lodge Room this evening, when P.G. Bro. Barkla, of Palmerston North, Degree Master, will be present to confer degrees. On Saturday afternoon the holders of the trophies attached to the senior combined championship tennis doubles, Miss Walker and A. Green, were defeated by Miss Wilson and. L. Cooper, the scores being 7—5. Monday ’s, storm did a great deal of damage in and around Bulls. Trees i and fences were razed in all directions 1' and roofs of sheds were lifted bodily, and deposited in trees and other places. On Mr J. A. Bailey’s property at Ohakea nineteen large trees were upI rooted, alarming the occupants of the , resident while at Eaumai Grange, i >M-ott's Ferry, etc., huge trees were i blown down across the road. On the ’ tennis courts a willow tree came down, s 'mashing wire fencing and doing conI siderable damage. The friends of Miss Vera Ingram will be pleased to hear that she is progressing favourably, after undergoing an operation in Wanganui on Tuesday. Mr Norman Tremewon, who has been ! n the employ of Ford and Co., Bulls, for over two years, leaves this week to take up an appointment in Auckland. Both Air and Mrs Tromewan have made many friends during tbeir stay here, I and regret is expressed at their deparj ture. ‘ • VENUS OF VENICE. ’ * Constance Tai madge comes to the Bulls Town Hall on Saturday in “ Venus of Venice.” a rollicking story in which Constance appears as an impulsive, mischievous little eanal gypsy, whose life is one of thievery among Mie gondolas of the Venice canals.