LOCAL AND GENERAL

Waipukurau Press, Volume XXIX, Issue 89, 10 April 1934, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Address on Liquor Question In the Methodist. Hall to-night at 7.45 o’clock,- Miss A. If. McLay, I)|jminion organiser for the W.C.T. to deliver an address entitled ‘‘lte Drink Evil To-day.” Musical items will be rendered during the evening. Waipawa County Rates At the meeting of the Waipanwi County Council yesterday the chairffljftn (Cr. N. M. Paulsen) reported that rates had. come in very well, 95 per cent, of the current year’s rates having b«m paid, as well as a good proportion of arrears. A Prompt Audit Under date April 9 the seventh annual balance sheet of the Waipukurau Fire Board for the year ended March 31 has been received 'back by the secretary (Mr H. B. Smart) from the Deputy-Controller and Auditor-General (Mr J. H. Fowler), Wellington, duly certified as correct. Rugby at Onga Onga

The first Rugby football match of the 1934 season at Onga Onga was played on Saturday afternoon on the new recreation ground behind the school. The game was between the senior teams of the Hastings and Onga Onga Football Clubs, and resulted in a win for the visiting fifteen by 25 points to nil. Mr R. P. Whitworth ably controlled tho game.

I The Tasman Flight The Tasman flight «this evening will not, as was the case with Mr Ulna’s all-night flight on December 3 and 4„ be broadcast throughout the Broadcasting Board’s stations. It is probable that the four YA stations will he on the air at 6 or 7 in the morning, however, for the landing. The ordinary messages will probably be given out during the ordinary evening sessions to-night. The landing description will not he made a national broadcast, though 2YB will be on the air tor tho benefit of Taranaki listeners. / Some Do It Beautifully.

The woman who grows old beautifully—whose face is as pleasant in old age as in youth—-has had recipes. Here are some of them: —She learns how to forget disagreeable things; she did not give way to her nerves, and inflict them on her friends; she mastered the art of saying pleasant things; she did not expect too much of her friends; she made whatever work she had to do congenial. Army Cooking Test. • Just a pinch of salt gave the 9th Battalion of the Middlesex Regiment’s team of five/ cooks a victory over the 13th Battalion of the London Regiment, champions in the last four years, in the final of the territorial cookery competition at Wellington barracks to-day. The adjudi--\ cators found that one of the pre- « scribed meat dishes, beef toad-in-the- r hole was equally well cooked, but a second dish, rabbit pie, was re-tasted, and an extra suggestion of salt decided the winner.

World’s Strongest Boy. A man who was described as the father of the world's strongest boy appeared before the Wokingham District Council (England) to explain why he had not complied with an order to obtain better housing accommodation for his family. The man, an unemployed hairdresser, was said to be living with his wife and six children in a shed. He told the council that his only chance of getting better accommodation was for his fourteen-year-old son to take up work at a circus as the “world’s! strongest boy” at a weekly salary of £2O.- A contract had been arranged, but the boy could not leave school. The chairman advised the. father to get in touch with the education authorities to see if the boy could be released from school, and adjourned the mattei’ for a month. As anounced in the advertising columns of the “Press” Mr G. H. Kershaw is to pay a business visit to Waipukurau on Thursday with a full sample range of linoleums, earpets, furniture coverings, blinds, etc. Messages may be left at Mr J. Windle’s office, in the main street.