MARTON NEWS

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 254, 27 October 1939, Page 2

MARTON NEWS

MARTON DISTRICT A. AND F. ASSOCIATION NATIVE SHRUBS AND TREES’ SECTION (Own Correspondent) MARTON, Oct. 26. With the object of encouraging young people to become interested in native trees and shrubs, the Rangitikei Scenery Preservation and Treeplanting Society has generously decided to donate prizes to the winners of each of the following classes at the Marton District A. and P. Association's Centennial Show, to be held on the Marton Racecourse on Wednesday, January 24, 1940: Class I.—Best collection of leaves or branches of native trees and shrubs. Open to any child up Io the age of 12 years. First, second and third prizes. Conditions of entrance: Exhibits to be collected, pressed and fixed in an exercise or scrap book and name in writing to be given by exhibitor (common or Maori names). Entrance free. ; Class 2.—Best collection of leaves or branchlets of native trees and shrubs. Open to all boys and .girls under the age of eighteen. First, second and third prizes. Conditions of entrance: Exhibits to be collected, pressed and fixed in an exercise or scrap book by exhibitor, and named i in writing by exhibitor (common or ■ Maori names to be given; botanical ] names not compulsory). Entrance' free. i Class 3.—Competition for naming ' native trees and shrubs. Open to boys' and girls up to the age of eighteen. I Conditions: Exhibits will be placed in • receptacles by the Tree-planting So-i ciety and numbered. Competitors will ! be supplied with papers, with numbers I on margin, on which to write common I or Maori names of exhibits. Competl- i tors who name the greatest number j correctly will receive a trophy. Entrance free. Entries close on Friday, January 12. VIOLA BARKER’S DISPLAY OF DANCING •Special attract ions will be intro- . ciuced at. Miss Viola Barker’s annual ! display of dancing at. the Civic Thea- I tre, Marton, on Wednesday, Novem- j her 1. which will include eight adult . ballroom dances. The Lambeth Walk. , which originated with Alec Hurley, a' popular Cockney comedian of twenty , years or so ago, will be executed by j Messrs. C. Smith, C. Collier and H. | Kimpton, and Misses Collier, Shannon and Gordon: also the ballroom waltz, ; the trek dance, the Park Parade, the j Blackpool waltz, the Palais stroll, and ‘ the quickstep. Ballerinas, Russian • folk dance. Pas de deux, acrobatic ' dance, Irish jig, Scotch country dance, j the flower fairies, the pipers, a Span-; ish dance, a ya, a quickstep routine, ; boom-a-daisy, and pas miltfaire will ; be performed by pupils of the dancing i school, concluding with a paly in one j' act. “The Musical Box.’’ MARTOX CIVIC THEATRE “GIVE ME A SAILOR” Martha Rayo. Bob Hope, Betty! Grable, and Jack Whiting have the . leading roles in “Give Me a Sailor,” I Paramount’s madcap comedy about , sailors’ high jinx on shore leave, | which will be finally screened to-night I at. the Civic Theatre. The story con- ' cerns a contract, made in childhood, by which two brothers promise to marry two sisters, and the efforts of one of thhc young terms. As Ihe plot unrolls, Miss Raye, the ugly duckling of the family, turns into a beauty with a nation-wide reputation and ; the winner of a coast-to-coast. legs ■ contest, while her sister, Miss Grable. I loses out on the field of live when ' she turns out Io be a dunce in the j kitchen. "The Mysterious Rider” A masked horseman who commits ! bold robberies and donates the proceeds Io the poor, who becomes the most, feared figure in the West without ever hurting an honest man and who saves the ranch of a. neautifui young girl from rustlers without revealing his identity, forms the roman- ■ tic central character in Paramount’s • “The Mysterious Rider,” Zane Grey’s , thrilling story of the untamed cattle I country, finally screened to-night to ; the Civic Theatre. view of Ihr heavy expense this year j for new equipment, be hoped the ' townspeople wn-jid zossist. previous,- I ly the dub had raised their own I money. The eleclini: nf onicers resulted:— ■ Patron. Mr. E. F. Hemingway; pre.si- ; deni. Mr. G. S. Fraser; twenty vict?- j piesidcnfs were elected; auditor, Mr, I E. F. Hemingway: secretary, Mr. W. I Davidson; assistant-secretary, pro fem, Mr. M. Boagey; honorary instructor. Mr. A. B. Currie; club capfain, Mr. R. A. Adams; depufy-cap-lain. Mr. E. Oakley: committee, Messrs. W. T. Lamb. C. S. Marlin, B. Usher, F. C. Verney, H. Boagey. I. Harkness, L. Grieves, J. Pcpperill; delegates to centre, Messrs. R. W. Moorhead and R. Howell; delegates to Seaside Society, Messrs. A. B. Curriv and F’. C. Verney. New members elected wore:—E’. Siceley, L. Grieves, D. Elf and J. Campbell. Subscription was fixed nc 2s 6d. Appreciation of the work of the retiring secretary, Mr. M. Boagey, was ! recorded. Mr. A. B. Currie was congratulated on being elected president of the Taranaki Surf Association. The committee was recommended to keep in view the forming of a ; junior team and the arranging of a competition to keep their interest going. Every member was urged to endeavour to obtain •one new active member. It was decided to inaugurate a . schedule of duties for patrols and ts strictly adhere to the programme. i An alarum gong is to oe erected and list of ’phone numbers of surf members to be placed in the bathing shed for ringing when the beach is not patrolled. Mr. G. S. Fraser presided over an enthusiastic and large attendance.