Palmerston North

New Zealand Tablet, Volume LI, Issue 43, 15 October 1924, Page 26

Palmerston North

(From our own correspondent.) October 10. Watch these "notes"! coming soon!: True story of a climb; 150 feet above the earth; thrilling episodes. There's plenty of news this time, so we'll keep it until the next, Not at all curious, are you? • It's good to be able to report that Miss HicksOn is now an ex-patient of the hospital. The fervent wish of her" friends is tl'rat better health will be hers for the future. ;,."■ On Wednesday of last "week Miss Noelle Pascal became? "Mrs. Harold Cooper. The bride was on the clerical staff of the A. and P. Association for five years, and a few weeks before her marriage the members of the A. and P. presented her with a silver tea service and salver. The carnival fever is • still going strong, /and the money is flowing in. Every Saturday'the votes are counted and the position of the. six candidates .announced. Then enthusiasm runs high and the following Monday brings forth a new batch of schemes for skinning the public in favor of "our" pet. When we're not talking carnival we are taken up with the railway deviation. It will take four years to complete; and everybody is asking: "How long will it take, to start-?" A long time, at the rate of speed/ r in the Talk Shop. ' . ,; , For a few days the sun, shone brightly: the wind went to sleep, and "everything in the garden was lovely." Said we: "Summer is knocking at the door." Then the wind poked his head over the fence and said: "I'll huff and I'll .puff and I'll blow your house in." A little later the "god of waterworks" turned the watering-cans upon us;'

and mighty noisy was he banging the cans aboutthunder we called it. Now we have decided that it's just . spring, and summer is not yet in sight. But winter and frosts and chilblains have gone once more. ; Hurrah! let's be thankful! . : '" One of the "lucky sort" carried off (which doesn't mean carried home) ' the quarter ton of coal which was one of the first prizes for the euchre on Wednesday night. A good many tons of coal have been "won on the cards" this year. The social committee members will now retire gracefully from the money-making arena as they do not wish to clash with the queen carnival campaign. The members have done more than anyone could have expected of them; and it will be very interesting to hear all about their bank account. Our Sisters gave a concert; oh dear! what a. blunder! That's the way to get the "stick." The Sisters' pupils gave a concert; that sounds better. To say that a convent concert is a good concert is "redundancy" ; and then there's that "stick" again. Things are becoming rather "hot" so let's jump out of the danger zone! The first part of the concert was taken up with choruses, songs, recitations and drill; and all the performers were up to the mark. Have you ever been to Fairyland? all who attended the concert" have, for the second part consisted of an operetta called "The Fairies of the Seasons." There was a Fairy Queen and a Fairy Moonlight, train-bearers, a trumpeter, a maid of honor and two pages, besides the dozens of fairies representing the four seasons —about 80 performers in all; and all acquitted themselves like true inhabitants of Fairyland.