LOCAL AND GENERAL

Waipukurau Press, Volume XXVIII, Issue 116, 11 May 1932, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Court Buahiue The attention of members of Court Ruahine is drawn to the advertisement in to-day’s issue of the “Press” regarding the meeting to-morrow night being in continuation of the meeting adjourned last night. Waipawa and District R.S.A. The annual meeting of tho Waipawa and District Returned Soldiers’ Association will be held, in the Waipawa Municipal Theatre to-morrow (Thursday) night at 7.15 o’clock. The annual reunion is to take place immediately following upon the general meeting and all “Diggers” will be made welcome.

A Large-Sized Pumpkin.

On exhibition at the premises of the N.Z. Loan and Mercantile Agency Company’s business premises is a fine specimen of pumpkin growth, this mammoth production of tho Hatuma district weighing 591bs. Mr W. Matthews, the producer of the vegetable referred to has donated it to tho local Relief Distribution Committee. Recently a Ballance (Pahiatua) settler was credited with growing a pumpkin weighing 58-Hbs, therefore it is obvious that the Hatuma production does both its grower and the district due credit! Poppy Pay Return

The secretary of the Dunedin Returned Soldiers’ Association has to date received £154 8 4s 8d as a result of the Poppy Day collection, and it is considered that last year’s total of £1650 will be exceeded when the final returns come to hand. The total has been considerably swelled by a donation of £250 from the Otago Patriotic Society. Nelson’s Prosperity

After dealing in chambers at Blenheim last week with some 2 6 applications for relief under the Mortgagors’ Relief Act, his Honour, Mr Justice Ostler observed that he had just received the cause list for the Nelson sessions, to be held in the following week, and he noticed that in Nelson there was only one applicant for relief. What was the difference, he inquired between Marlborough and Nelson? “At present,” explained counsel, “Nelson is a more prosperous district than this, for they have sources of wealth there that we haven’t got here.” “Tobacco and

tomatoes,” volunteered another member of the Ear.

A Good Samaritan

A fine human story is to be told

about those men who came up to the Parapara relief camp from Welling-

ton recently. The men were penni-

less when they left Wellington. Some of them were actually hungry men. By time they reached Marton the men were famished, but no provision had been made to supply the men with a meal. It was a little waitress in the Marton railway station tearooms who went and got the men out of the train, gave them tea and sandwiches and had the cost booked up against her wages. The “boys” in the camp still remember

the goodness of that little waitress and they speak of her with deep ap-

preciation

Dance at Wanstead

A dance is to be hold in the Wanstcad Hall on Friday night. Miss Sharpin’s Orchestra will provide the music, and patrons arc ensured of an enjoyable evening.

Next Friday sees the opening of the most extensive and exclusive collection of model gowns and millinery yet shewn in Hawke’s Bay. A shipment of goods is being opened from the leading gown and millinery houses of London and the Continent which we confidently assert cannot be bettered for style or price in New Zealand. Be sure and see our first showing on Friday, March 4th—MATHEWSONS LTD.. 34 Memorial Square. Napier. Phone 747.