NEWS AND NOTES,

Waikato Times, Volume 105, Issue 17783, 7 August 1929, Page 11

NEWS AND NOTES,

INTERESTING ITEMS. There were 23 cases of scarlet fever reported In Wanganui during July, and three of diphtheria. At Carde’s, Frankton: 36in heavy twill winceyette, 1/3, in sky, pink, cream; men’s woollen sox, 1/-. Two bankruptcies were recorded in Wanganui last month. In July of last year the same number were recorded. There are many furnishings which give beauty to a room, but none can compare with pictures. Harmonising colours in a beautiful landscape or some other work of art never fail to add beauty to any room. There is a very line selection of pictures displayed at the Devon Art Depot, 235 Victoria Street, and you are invited to inspect them. AH tastes are catered for and the prices are most reasonable.

There are 64 patients undergoing treatment at the Masterton Public Hospital, including 7 in the isolation u'ards.

The latest styles in winter coats, costumes, and evening frocks are now available at reasonable cost at Madame Snadon’s, upstairs over Hooker and Kingston’s, Victoria Street. Fur coats are renovated and re-lined here also.

“Ask them to lend us Constable Morrison for a week," said a committee man of the Khandallah Progressive Association last night. Speeding tradesmen, it was stated, were endangering life and limb in the district.

Commercial travellers and others who are constantly motoring all endorse the New Ford as the ideal car for their work, because it is speedy, safe and economical. Sec the New Ford at F. Baker’s, Ltd., Collingwood Street.

Rotary clubs at times have a strange sense of humour, or shall we call it justice? Tiie wife of one of the members of the local club presented the Ivelburn Boy Scouts on the 20th anniversary of their birthday with a handsomely decorated cake. In consequence of this the president fined the member for having sucli a thoughtful and considerate wife who was, moreover, an excellent cakemaker.

It is quite unnecessary that you should suffer misery from a cough or cold when there is a preparation obtainable that will afford certain relief and cure. People have long clamoured for a reliable cough cure, and Boyd’s . Cough Balsam is the answer to their request. This remarkable remedy has already cured many cases. Why not yours? If is sold for 2/6 a bottle by J. 11. Boyd, Chemist, Hamilton East. Forty-two building permits to the value of £0793 15s were issued by the Wanganui City Council last month. The total was made up as follows: New dwellings (6), £5181; alterations and additions to dwellings (24), £939 os; other new buildings (2), £120; alterations and additions to business premises, etc. (10), £3553 10s.

-- The controversy regarding drink at dances is holding quite a lot of interest at present. It is known that verypopular drinks at dances are Clark’s. These drinks arc popular wherever they go, because they are the best. Order from J. A. Clark, factory, Hinemoa Street; ’phone 2094.

Customs revenue collected at the port of Wanganui for July totalled £6,386 9s 3d, while the beer duty was £261 9s 3d.

Good foxtrots still seem to out-do all other kinds of popular music. The new London craze tune at the moment, “I Lift Up My Finger and Say ‘Tweet! Tweet!’ ” is a wonderful example of a Ilrst-class foxtrot. Get your record from L. V. Martin and Co., Ltd., "The First with the Latest" Record Shop, Victoria Street.

The vital statistics for Wanganui for July are as follow, the previous July’s figures being given in parentheses:—Birth, 56 (55); deaths, 23 (32); marriage licenses issued, 20 (16); marriages in office, 4 (6).

The boy stood on the wintry deck, From coughs and colds secure; He’d rather risk a midnight wreck Those lose his Ivowhai Cough Cure

During July the number of visitors to the Sarjeant Gallery at Wanganui, as shown by the visitors’ book, totalled 576. Of these 490 were beyond Wanganui, while 86 were local visitors. The largest attendance for one day was on July 22, when the total was 66, including 7 local visitors. For July, 1928, the total attendances was 410, including 100 local visitors.

Obtain your supply from Baillies, Ltd., Manufacturing Chemists, Victoria Street, Hamilton—l/6 and 2/6. When the pioneers first built their homes in their new-found land they built for protection against enemies. Nowadays it is the same, but the enemies are different. Borer and other pests beset the home that is built with inferior limbcr i and considerable expense is entailed in repairs. Build with reliable limber which is guaranteed by ordering your material from the Sawmillcrs’ Timber Trading company, Ltd., Ward Street, Hamilton. Farmers, you can buy your fencing posts and limber for farm work there, too. A number of spurious cojns have been in circulation in Wanganui recently. A Gonvillc resident received a two-shilling piece that was not all it should have been and took it into the bank. The coin was of a much lighter metal than copper and was crudely engraved. A business man arrived at the bank at the same time with his takings for the previous day and a “bad” half-crown piece was found. Keep that worn lyre! It’s life of usefulness is not over yet. Take it along to the Central Vulcanising Works, and there have it fitted for further use.—J. Blaclchall, proprietor.