HEATHCOTE FAIR.

Press, Volume LIV, Issue 16163, 18 March 1918, Page 3

HEATHCOTE FAIR.

XEAItLY JKOO ItAISED. A very suec£.v=ful fair for the purposeof raising addition*! funds to send Mioo A. B. Weir, in Kngland, for the purpose of assisting soldiers in hospitals in England, TTO3 held at Hcathcot© Valley last week, ilr C. Flavcll presided. A musical programme, contribui«d partly by tho school children, who wcro prepared by Aliases Jauiieson uud U'eninouth, and Mr Gates, and naitly by Misses I'rifcsUey, Adams, Hopping, Querco, and Aleesrs Bryan, Lunn. and Wauson, was iollowed by ttio actual busineea of the fair. The singing of the 'i-'lag Kong" by a party of girls brought in over —and t-iic ".tied Crcfis Sons ty blaster ¥.. Bloom 62 Od. The stalls soon did u roaring business, and the- scone vaa ona of the-utmcat animation. The !lug v.-as auctioned by Mr Aiel'.ob.s, of Chrisiehuvch. Jt wua giver, by ilr A. Bettle, of lieathcote, and cmbel.islicd wr-h the autograph signatures of tbeir .Excellencies, tho Earl ar.d Countess of ami the members of the on© of whoui, the lion W. li. Herriea. Minister of ivayu, gave a guinea. Tbo auction broupt in JE7D Oa Cu. The tinal bid of X'lo v.aa that of the stair of the Canterbury t-ccd Co:nnany, whn.-c representative, ilr C. -tiavcb, nantled the flw? to Mrs James \> eir, .a<-V tr-?-idc-r.t of (ho Bristol Commute?. Mi 3 Weir presented it to the Heatbooie Ohio, with tne siigeeiuion that it b,> utilised to drape the Hcathcote roll of . Mr John S Wei", on bshalf of C'n.onel H S. E. Hobdiiv. nd tho trustees ot tue late K. M. Morten's Estate, the fi?t oE a cheque for x'2'i to hob) the fund. Tho stallholders were !1 - 3 lollow : — Produce. Mesdamcs A. Bloom and i'rauk King and *\i' s s J. Smith; sewhi?, etc.. llc-miuws James Weir. K. Pearce, .1. Iv.-ans._r.ii.-i Miss Bct-tridpo: surprise packets, .•.es'ii:in?s A. Queree, B. Westbmoke. aim Mass Uarke. oako stall. Mr? •'"'!« -S. V.cir and Miss Weir- sv-eeis, Mosdamcs A. (lable. C. L'Uiven 'and Wati: bvnn tubs. Missca Quo-roe (2!, ar.d >.U«s Thompson: minora! drinki and icc-rroauis, Mosdaracs A. and W T Pocpi<*. and Misseis Ada Wciliorall. ar.d' Ivy Milne; refreshment?.. .<lesriaratii V.'. Grazier. L. H>>isor., U. Smith. V.'. I •".vans, and M;ssos I'crkir.s and (iruv (r- Rowers., O. Meek. 1. Itoberts. ar.d K. »enr>y icecreams, Moscianies C. 1./ra p>-<1 **