GENERAL NEWS

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume XXIV, 9 April 1927, Page 6

GENERAL NEWS

Rev. Bates’ Weather ForecastWesterly winds, strong to gale and vterino’ by west to south. Weathsr p-.obably cold and changeable with rain probable and the night very cold. Barometer rising soon.

To obtain , superior results in developing, printing and enlat gmg bring your films to B. A. BRYAN, M.P.S., Prescription Chemist, ’Phone 9, Box 62, Waimate 1

Present entries for the M aihao Forks sale on Tuesday next are advertised.

Loan proposals involving £746,920 are being considered by ’he Wellington City Council.

Attention is directed to the Railway advertisement appearing in this issue giving particulars of train arrangements in connection with Easter holidays.

You want to be up-to-date, of course, so why not buy one of the neat and attractive celluloid date calendars, good to look at and good far any year and sold at reasonable prices by J. H. Beattie, The Shop N< xt the Post Office. Also in stock, date stamps and stamp pads.

Unemployment in Auckland is stated to be the gravest in history, there being 5,000 out of work at present.

The annual meeting of the Studhclme Rifle Club wil be held in the Nukuroa Hall on Monday, April Uth at 8 p.m.

Scales of super accuracy' sensitive to 1-32 grain is used in weighing the ingredients of your Doctor’s prt scription Ensure safety combined with pure drugs. Request your physician to ring P'jone, 9, when your medicine and other requisites will be promptly delivered to ycur home. B. A Bryan, M.P.S., Prescription Chemist, ’Phone 9, Bos 62, Waimate. 3.

As a result of stepping on to a slvlight, Mrs Martha Cronin (,40) f .11 through into the kitchen of an hotel at Wellington, and was killed it stantly.

The legal offices in Waimate will close for the- Easter holidays on Thursday, 14th April and re-open oi; Friday, 22nd. April.

Cheaper petrol is the desire of all motorists provided it is of good qtiality. To-day, Dash, Ltd., are selling the very best and highest grade motor spirit at prices lower than have been known in bulk storage days. Two brands of motor spirit are on tap, and one of petrol. Try us for low price juice. ..

In Auckland, there are daily recurring indications of the scarcity of employment for women in ell avenues. Over 200 applications we. e received for the position of typiste. and even in domestic service there is a rush for employment.

The public are invited to inspect the South Canterbury Electric Power Board’s new offices at Timaru between 3.30 and 4.30 p.m. on Tuesday April 12th.

The owner of a Kodak enjoys his holidays, not once, but man-.-times. Long after others have forgotten their holiday pleasures his album brings back treasured recollections of happy days, holiday after holiday, year after year. Albums in great variety and full range; Kodak and English CamerChemist and Kodak dealer, Waias stocked. B. A. Bryan, M.P.S., mate. 6.

A Harvest Home Ball will be held in. the Arno Soldiers’ Memorial Hal’ on Thursday, April 21st. Music by the Jovial Orchestra.

■ That the Executive supports th® Control Board, and is against any limitation of its powers,” was a mo lion passed by the Mid-Canterbuiv Executive of the Farmers' Union at its meeting yesterday.

Town planning when lectured upon with picture illustrations through a good lantern is a most interesting theme. To-day all Borough residents are interested to know just what may happen in Waimate under the new Act and will welcome the opportunity offered on Monday night. There is no charge and no collection the meeting being under the arrange ment of the Borough Council. The opnortunity of seeing what has been done in other lands in city beautification and improvement should induce hund-eds of our residents to be present when Mr Hammond, Director of Town Planning, speaks on Monday night.

The number of radio licenses i sued for receiving sets at the Ti ß am Post Office totals 120. It j s u , del-stood that an inspection o f y Timaru district is to be made with view to- detecting <JI unlicensed a paiatus. The C'.F.C.A. Ltd., will jell their land saleroom on SalurdJ April 23rd at 2 p.m., on account the estate of the late Isaac Ardu tana on Park Road., at present I copied by Mr E. Meyer. Paud Li-.s arc advertised. To win adherents by sheer of merit against steady propoganj many competing, s to have ind sic merit which cannot be overt J ed It is so with Tydol Motor Sn it. it gains additional users asl cays pass, and these take to it cause it is the goods. Quick in tior and lasting in service it spd your start and gives you mild it is sold at Dash, Ltd. Garage.| ' An endorsement of the stated made by the Minister of Agd ture (the Hon O. J. Hawken) tl New Zealand lamb was deterid

•ng vzas given by M. F. 11. H a j Technical College instructor I woo! and sheep in South Cam bi.ry,. Mr Harte was very J pkatic. Messrs Pyne, Gould. Guild Ltd. Timaru, will sell by pul auction in their sale rooms, StrJ £>ian St., Timaru on Friday, d 2' iid., at 2.15 p m., leasehold J party situated Douglas SettlenJ Waihao Downs. Sec advertised foi particulars.

The Pukeuri Freezing Worls ■ now putting through 3,400 lambi day, and are running at the tul| capacity. Space has been tool for sufficient stock to enable I works to he fully employed i| Easter, but naturally the stodfl not held at the works. | The Minerv?. Grigson Street. ■ mate, ladies’ and children’s outfll “Hullo there 1 Is that EnJ Wheatley speaking?" "Yes! "I® can you tell me why you had I ' lend speaker" in action last SaH day night?” “Oh yes, ceriuß We were broadcasting the ■ nouncemeuts in connect ion with! Army Harvest. Fes® meetings for this weekend." II thank you, and hop- you hav<j v<ry successful Harvest Festival J. The M inister of Agriculture J lion. O. J. Hawken) spoke at ® burton yesterday on the wheat t® t.en. The Minister stated thatj the grower held his wheat till® spring he would get 6s per bn® Hi said, also, that growers have to organise to get a b® price, and defeat organised buy® Circulated through this even® issue of the “Daily Advertiser® the programme of events for ■ Gymkhana at Hook on Easter J® da •. Included among them wil® a dog trial, pull and yard, (t® armpices of Waimate Collie ■ Club)'. This appears on the ■ gramme as driving and yardin®

Eoils,. Sores and Pimples Flee. Skin Eruptions disappear, lake this dinkum Up from fflfj Keep BRYANS BLOOD PH FTER near. 3/6 per bottle. 11. A. Bryan, M.P.S., Prescril Chemist. Phone 9, Box 62, I mate.

With the object, if jeo'-siblej se-tiring amended registration ing farmers more adequate m against trespassers on freeholdl 1c rsehold properties when, in pu| rt imported or native game, I Committee of the Timaru Arf tural* and Pastoral Assoc.-aticnJ tided at its March meeting M j reach the Ministers of Justice! tornal Affairs and Agricnltn l ! the matter. Messrs H B S. I stone (president), P. IL TalbotJ G. A. M. McDonald were apli ■ a sub-committee to meet I Minister at his convenience. I The most fastidious woman I find her desire amongst the I variety of Face Powders hispl ar Bryan’s Pharmacy. 'Houbigant’s” “Pivers, Gay I er ” to mention only a fe”marked at lowest prices. I| Bryan, M.P.S., Prescription <j ist, Phone 9, Box 62, Waimhl The Waimate United Society’s Sports will be held in| t< ria Park on Easter Saturda* usual, excellent entries have | received for this popular Phil O'Shea is cc-mpetin? an< N many other leading cycles 1 runners. The dancing sect.'Liß ways calls forth ; -od entries- ■ Mr Geo. Yarr'hv. the ■ P-per, has- signiT-u lis it^ eß ■ competing. -S

s ax According to a Christchurch repotatoes are worth to-dav bon; £3 10s to A 3 15s on trucks, at country stations. , H A dance in aid of Building Fund fl Till be held in the Exhibition Hall. B Waihao Downs, on Easter Monday, ■ April 18th. Water rights have, been granted ■fl i syndicate on the West Coast for establishment of the wood pulp,Bin< industry. An Australian exwit will report «n the project at an date. A cake and produce, stall in aid jjlj.rf St. Michaels Ladies' Guild will held in Waimate on Saturday, fl A P nl 23rd - d.-' An Otira resident was arrested ..flnsterday morning on a warrant in 1921 for using obscene and brought before the Cii'ymouth Magistrate's Court, but ■jl Jan the police offered no evidence the was dismissed. Woa A great gymkhana will lie held JMti Hook on Easter Monday in aid MP Hall funds. In previous years nini ®‘ s function has proved a great at and should be no less so r J this year, judging by t he pro- . HS 1 an mie published in this issue will also be held in the Hook Jjjßllall in the evening. „ An omnibus crashed into an endSßR meal an Auckland railway crossHifg on Thursday night, and the fell from the driver's seat and to the bus. He was prevented falling under the wheels af train, however, by the c ole who seized him. The bus ■passenger who seized him. The bus not extensively damaged. I In the Dobson Mine, the scene of Bp- recent disaster, the water his AHbeen reduced to within 20 feet the bottom dip drive. An inspecwill bo made before the mine ]is reworked. It is ixpec-ted that the of the five entombed men be reached in a week, and that whole mine will be unwatered three weeks. ion, ' th' Waimate Collie Club's anball will be held in the OlymHall on Thursday April 28th orchestra of six musfrom Timaru. will supply the a |flj.l’d c t f I The conference of New Zealand of the Girl Guides, in Christchurch, ibis week, had Apia? s< ’ ss ’ ons in the two days, allowlor business. Many papers were .j^®‘ r3| l by Commissioners on various - of the work of the movement helpful discussions followed. 1 CW ! ; 10R present found much instruenjte. in the conference, and have re■wnrP. to districts reaching from nd to the Bluff, well equipped in I ' r-.'"-i'y on. There were thirty-two day- *Hrates in attendance, and Mrs I ‘lson, of .Auckland, Chief New Zea fixtl-Wrl Commissioner, conducted the The arrangements in were under the direcjon wan ni’ Canterbury Commissioner Cocks, who is sister of our poo Canon. The Waimate CommisB, x " i, ' ! ' Mrs Goo. Dash, represented

The working of the New Zealand Kailways for the eleven months ended February 5, 1927, show the svletantial profit of £1,332,434 17s Id.

A Harvest Home Ball will be held in the Nukuroa Hall, Studholme on Wednesday, April 13th. Good floor, good music, good supper. Also progressive euchre, for which good prizes are offered.

The Auckland grading store has handled in the nine months butter and cheese equivalent to. over 84,400,0001 b of butter-fat, which exceeds by 11,00,0001 b the total for the same period last year

A Palmerston North radio entl i.siast picked up radio transmission from Holland at 7.15 yesterday morning. For two hours he heard a musical programme.

The C.F.C.A. Ltd. will sell at Hunter on Wednesday, April 13th . on -.count of Mr K. W. Mercer, his live and dead stock and plant. Full particulars are advretised.

Christchurch market reports state that wheat is being quoted at 5/1 and 5/2 per bushel on trucks at .oun try stations. A good proportion of farmers are now storing their wheat in anticipation of a better price being realised later. Oats have shown a little more life, although there is no quoteable difference.

The mid-Canterbury Provincial Executive of the New Zealand Farmers’ Union have decided + o ask Mr W. Machin to call a meeting of the millers and the wheat growers’ committee to see if something could be done to equalise the pi icc of wheat and flour.