MARTON

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 75, Issue 244, 15 October 1932, Page 3

MARTON

HARRIERS. A handicap race will be run this afternoon over the championship course. The winner of this event will receive a medal and the runner clock ing the fastest time is entitled to the club championship medal for the sea son. There are only two more events before the close of the season. On Labour Day the club will be represented in the Alarton to Wanganui relay race held under the auspices of tho Wanganui Harrier Club. There is a large field of runners nominated for this race from clubs in Hawke’s Bay. Wairarapa and Wellington. On October 29 a race from Bulls under handicap conditions and open to Wanganui run ners is being staged, followed in the evening by a social function, at which the, presentation of trophies will be made. To-day's Handicaps. Harrier handicaps for to-day’s run over the championship course have been declared as follows by Air. J. Clarke.—Smith scr., Robertson, Iniin. 30sec., Gorrie, 2.30, Ry burn 4.30, Windleburn 4.30, Hegghin 4.30, Ledingham 5, Alackay 5, Loveridge p, Alclndoe 6. Gordon 6, Dashwood 6.30, Jackson 6.30. CATHOLIC EUCHRE PARTY. There wore 70 players present at the Catholic euchre party on Thursday evening. The tournament resulted in Mrs. Holmes winning the ladies’ prize, and Air. Amer and Air. Coleman tied for tho gent’s, eventually dividing the same. The competitions were won by Aliss AlcCrac and AL Allen. MARTON VOLUNTEERS. Details of the new reorganisation are to hand. As concerns Alarton, the local unit will furnish one machine gun platoon (two Vickers guns), one transport section (seven details), and the remainder part of the Regimental Rifle Company Thursday night’s par ade was inspected by the Adjutant, Captain D. T. Alaxwell, Wanganui, who afterwards was the guest of the n.c.o.’s class at supper. An invitation has been received to a friendly shoot with the Turakina Rifle Club at a date to bo arranged, cither a Wednesday or a Saturday. The next parade will be held on tho 27th inst. A PAINFUL ACCIDENT. On Thursday evening Jack, the ten-year-old son of Air. C. C. McDonald, of Alarton, fell on the sharp edge of a water pipe and inflicted a deep cut on the knee cap, which necessitated his removal to St. Catherine’s Hospital. THE CIVIC THEATRE. “THE RICH ARE ALWAYS WITH US.” An unusually distinguished cast supports Ruth Chatterton in her First National picture, “The Rich Are Al-

ways With Us,” which comes to the Civic Theatre this afternoon and evening and on ATonday evening. George Brent, her leading man. is regarded as the year’s *‘discovery” on the coast. John Aliljan is the best-known “society heavy” in pictures. John Wray comes to the screen from nine successive vears on the Broadway

stage. Bette Davis, Burton Churchill, Virginia Hammond and Walter Walker have enviable theatrical reputations. Adrienne Dore, who has the second feminine led-d, was “Aliss America” of 1931, and has several outstanding parts in Warner-First National pictures to her credit. Others in the handpicked cast are Robert Warwick, a veteran of the screen, Ruth Hall, Ethel Kenyon, Edith Allen, Eula Guy and Mae Aladdison. Alfred E. Green, direc-

tor of “Disraeli” and many other hits, directed “The Rich Are Always With Us.” from the adaptation by Austin Parker, himself a well-known novelist and playwright. E. Pettit, author of the starling novel “Alove Over,” write “Tho Rich Are Always With Us,” which enjoyed wide sales in lovel form. JUNIOR REFORM LEAGUE. The Rangitikci branch of the Junior Reform League w r ill meet, in the Alarton Jockey Club’s rooms next Wmlnesday night, at S o’clock. Business is important, and a full attendance is re

RATA FOOTBALL CLUB’S DANCE. On Friday, October 21, the Rata Football Club will hold a presentation dance in the Rata Coronation Hall, when the trophies won by the Kata Club during the, past, season will be presented. Prices are: Gents 3s, ladies -ENERAL NEWS. Alessrs. Fullerton Smith and Co., solicitors, Alarton, advertise for sale by tender, on account of the executor of the estate of Robert Jefferson, deceased, a property of 262 acres and 22.7 perches, situated on the, Raumai Road about two miles from Bulls. The

buildings consist of a four-roomed house with bathroom, pantry and washhouse an dalso a small cowshed. Tenders (dose on Tuesday, October 25, before 4 30 p.m. Chase's Machinery Exchange, Marton, advertise a number of fanning implements for sale.