MARTON NEWS

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 85, Issue 169, 21 July 1941, Page 3

MARTON NEWS

FIRE BRIGADE EUCHRE TOURNEY There was an attendance of 50 players at the Marton Fire Brigade s euchre tourney, when the prize winners were Mrs. J. Price and Mr. F. Amer, and the consolation awards went to Mr. H, W. Lunn and Mrs. Burbury. MEDICAL EXAMINATION BOARD A medical board to examine about 16 recruits for the New Zealand Forces, the majority being those called up in the last Territorial ballot, and who could not attend the first examination, is to be held in Marton next Wednesday. The examining officers will be Drs. R. A. Church and W. S. R. Dick.

HOME GUARD SHOOTING PRACTICE Shooting practice at the Marton Miniature Rifle Club’s rance was carried out by members of the Marton Home Guard Company, as part oi last week's training, the men each firing ten rounds in groups of five. Because of a shortage of ammun'tion the Marion Company is one of the few units in the district that has had an opportunity of snooting. Service rifles, with .22 calibre barrels fitted, are used. CIVIC TrnSATKE, MAK-rON. GEORGE FORMBY. In "Call a Cop" George is right at tile top of his fun form—wnether he is making a life-long enemy of his •superior, the Chief of Police, by colliding with him and carrying him on his handlebars through springboard jumps and blazing buildings during a trial to discover recruits for the Flying Squad, or pepping up the sales of the music shop in which his gill Dorothy Hyson, works by singing "Ukulele Man” to the customers, or obligingly working with the crooks he is looking for under the mistaken idea they are plainclothes detectives—maintaining with undiminished lustre the engaging, buck-toothed grin, miraculous sense of rhythm, and ability to make us believe he realy is in dire peril every time he gets in.o one hair-raising jam after another. The story is about saboteurs who are going to blow up Britain’s newest warship, being built at a shipyard George patrols as a War Reserve coas able. The gang not unnaturally i take George for a sucker and enrol ; him without his being aware of it. When he does unmask them it is to their own uhdsX-cover higher-up, who piunges George deeper in the mire by fixing it so that the Police Chic, thinks George is hand-in-glove witi. the crooks. To prove his innocence, George has to round the outfit up single-handed, at the same time avoldI ing his fellow-constables because he is I “wanted," and driving hair-raisingb ,n a miniature car, pursued by a ,-engeful thug, to launch the ship safely a second before it is due to be wrecked by dynamite