THE PRESS. PRICE – ONE PENNY. Published Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays. THURSDAY, AUGUST, 12, 1920. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Waipukurau Press, Volume 11, Issue 39, 12 August 1920, Page 2

THE PRESS. PRICE - ONE PENNY. Published Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays. THURSDAY, AUGUST, 12, 1920. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The .East Coast Gun Club will hold <, sparrow shoot at Petane at 1 p.m. on Saturday. Trophies won at previous shoots will be presented.

In the sale of an old house at Otaki a valuer allowed £lOO each for two very fine Norfolk pines about 40 fe< • high, and probably forty years old.

A Manawatu fanner has let a section of five acres at Otaki to a Chinaman at £l5 per acre. There are no building and the fences are dilapidated.

When ordered to hospital at Culver den on account of sickness, a drover named Stephen Highstcd, belonging to Rotherham, shot himself.

One in every 23 persons in Canada owns a motor-car. The Dominion now ranks second amongst the countries of the world in the manufacture of cars, number of cars owned (about 350,000). and number per capita.

The Chairman of the School Committee has received advice that the Educaption Department has agreed to purch.as Air Jone’s section for playground extension. 'The question of the removal of the Headmaster’s residence is still undr consideration.

A Levin resident dug a jmr.snip last week that turned the scale at 71 lbs.

For the first ten days during the .Prince of Wales’ visit to Sydney over 9,000,000 passengers: were carried. i>y the tramway service.

Members of the W.U.T.U. are reminded that the Alonthly Aleeting will be held to-morrow afternoon. It is hoped there will be a full attendance as the business is urgent and matters are to be discussed with reference to the coni ing convention to be held in Dannevirke next mouth.

The Auckland Sugar workers are try ing to enlist the sympathy of Parliament in their endeavour to' secure high er wages and better working - conditions. A circular letter covering various ] liases of the dispute, which threaten to culminate in a strike at nidmight on Saturday next, has been drawn up, and will be circulated amongst members of the House.

Dunedin farmers, says the “Star” are evidently expecting high prices for their sheep. A well-known firm of butchers last week received an offer of several lines of fat weathers, totalling over 2000, at prices ranging from 50s to 605., most of them being at the latter price. The prospects of cheaper mutton are not promising.

Regarding the protest made by the the introduction of tooth-brush drill Women Teachers’ Association against .among smaller children, the Education Department is prepared to agree that medical and dental officers shall meet representatives of the association to dis cuss the matter. The Education Board, while admitting certain difficulties hopes that teachers will encourage the proper care of the teth.

Very stylish and superior in quality arc our Suede Shoes in Black, Urey, and Nigger Brown at reasonable prices. Black Satin evening shoes at 32s 6d. Carpenter’s, the footwear Specialists, Waipukurau (also at Hastings.) #