LOCAL AND GENERAL

Waipukurau Press, Volume XXVIII, Issue 32, 30 January 1933, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Mild. Heat-Wave Something in the nature of a mild hcat-wavo prevailed in Waipukurau during the week-end and to-day, several cases of fainting being reported. The Town Band. The annual meeting of the Waipukurau Town Band will be held to-night in the band-room at 8 o’clock. Tne public is cordially invited to attend. Schools Re-open This Week

All public primary schools re-open on AVedncsday. It is announced in this issue that children who will reach the ago of six years during Ihc term ending May 5 next, may attend school from February 1, but they cannot be placed on the school roll until they attain the age of six years.

An Interesting Meeting It is expected that by reason <*< the varied questions of local and national interest to come forward for discussion at the bi-monthly meeting of the ChatilF' her of Commerce to-night, in Wood’s tea-room at 8 o’clock, there will be a large attendance of members, including several new supporters of this business protective and progressive agency. A’ committee from the executive is to meet the Borough Council at 5 p.m. and the executive at 7.30 p.m. Barque Arrives at Auckland.

With every sail set and close-hauled on the port tack the Finnish barque Winterhude came to the gates of Auckland on Saturday morning. The Winterhudc has made a remarkably quick passage of 56 days from. Seychelles Island, in the Indian Ocean, to Auekjf land, with a cargo of guano. She

thus won her race with the Passat, another Finnish sailing' vessel, which left Seychelles Island for Auckland six days before the Winterhude. No advice of the Passat’s expected arrival has yet been received.

“Auld Lang Syne.” <'

An appeal that lovers of Scottish song should preserve the dignity of the great Burns work, C( Auld Lang Syne,’* was made in Dunedin by Mr W. Wood during the course of an address on the Scottish national poet at the Burns anniversary gathering. <f Auld Lang Syne.” Mr Wood said, “is the most abused song that has ever been written. There is never a carousal at a sfrceW corner at which it is not sung. ‘Auld Lang Sync” was not written for such a purpose. It was written to bind together Scottish men and women in good fellowship, and T appeal in aIS seriousness to the members of the Dunedin Burns Club to rescue the song from such abuses.

Sporting and Dramatic There is much, to interest all tastes in this week’s issue of the "N.Z. Sporting and Dramatic Review,” every phase of topical events being pictorially treated in highly artistic manner. The re-building of Napier is portrayed in an exceedingly interesting series of events showing the carnival and picturesque incidents of the week’s celebrations. The Wellington Racing Club’s meeting is represented in several pages of snapshots relating to the principal events. The Now Zealand Motor Racing Drivers’ Association meeting at Mangcrc is another attractive subject since thrilling photographs wore secured. Beautiful views of TCarekare will attract the eye of holiday makers, and swimming in Auckland is the subject of a striking page of photographs.

Now on. Mathewson’s Ltd. Great Summer sale. A complete clearance of all our exclusive summer stocks at real sale prices. Parker’s Chambers, Hasting Street, Napier. ’Phone 747.