TEMUKA.

Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 18892, 6 January 1927, Page 13

TEMUKA.

PERSONAL

Mr fii:(j Mrs i. J. Williams, Mr E.

! Wiiii;i,„ K (Dur.ediu). Mrs Macfarlane,' | Miss Macfarlane. Miss L'. Scott (Fen- | duiton. Chr-istchu.-cisi. Mrs Park, and Mr ! and Mrs J. K. I'.lMr (Morvcn; were the guests of Mr ami Mrs .1. T. Smart, , l'-iuuka, during the Ciiristtf.::* r.nd \ew

Vcar holidays. The Raw ]f. a;i ( Mrs Kiciia-ds have -one on a three weeks' koiitii.y to

Cromwell and Qucenstowii. Mr G. W. Lcaulcv. oi! Ashburton, 'a ill be in Temuka for the week-end,

and will take the services fit the Tcr "luka Methodist Church.

Mr and Mrs E. B. Cooper arc vijiting friends at Hampden. Airs Brown, wife of Dr. Crown finvcrcargill) i s visiting Mr and Miss Brown, Dinting House, Temuka. Mr and Mrs T. Buxton arc the guests of Air and Miss Brown. Dinting House, Temuka.

Mr };. A. ouuiming, conductor of the Timaru and Temuka.'Municipal Bands, has resigned from the eonduetorsliip of tho Timaru Baud.

Air 0. Loughlen (Masterton) is visiting relatives in Temuka. Mr T. O'Brien (Masterton ) is spend- } iug a holiday at Temuka. I Air B. W. B. Cooper, sou of Mr and : Mrs K. B. Cooper, Temuka, who is at i present at Suva, has received an appointment as acting district engineer j at Lactoka, Fiji. j Mr Erie Clarke, who has been visit- | ing Temuka and Timaru, has returned home to Ashburton. The ttev. E. D. Patchett .Christchurch) is a visitor to Temuka. The Mayor and Mayoress of St. Kilda, Mr and Airs TJ. \V. Hall, who have been the guests of Mrs J. Cook, have returned to Dunedin. Air X. E. Pritehard. of llio H.M.S. Dunedin, spent the week-end with Mr and Airs Barrett, Milford. Miss Muir, who has been on a visit to Southland, returned Io Temuka on Tuesday. Air D. B. Muir is visiting friends in the South. Air W. Veiteh, who has been on a holiday to Dnucdiu, returned to Temuka on Tuesday, and is spending a few days hero before going on to Christchurch. Rainfall. I The December rainfall as recorded at tho Winchester School was 350 points on 11 days as compared with 104 points on eight days recorded in December, 1925. The total rainfall for 1926 was 24.24 inches on 112 days. The maximum shade temperature for the month was 84 degrees on the 12th, the minimum being 32 degrees on the 2nd. Bowling, j Two progressive pairs competitions were held on the local green on Monday, the leads' prize in the first being won by E. H. Taylor and A. Hope. •T. Harvey was the winning skip. In tho second competition, A. 11. Abbott won the leads' prize and T. Edwards and G. Pierce shared the skips' prize. Boy Scouts in Camp. On Monday the No. 2 North Town troop of tho To Eeinga Boy Scouts, Timaru.'walked to Temuka and pitched camp on the Temuka riverbed at tho i North' Town, There are about! "Ob scouts in "camp under tho charge of 'Scoutmaster Bell, Assistant-Scout-! '.master Smith, and the supervisor, Dis-; I (riot-Scoutmaster AV.G. Salmon. The j lads are spending a thoroughly enjoyable time, bathing in the river every ! day, an.l exercising in general scout | work. They return to Timaru on Saturday nest. Business Men's Association. LA meeting of the executive of the Business Mens' Association was held in tho secretary's office yesterday morning. Present: Messrs T. Knight (president), W. F. Evans, J. Davis, A. D. Cameron, G. H. Clements, S. Goddard, H. B. Strange, and B. Hughes. Formal business was disposed of and the secretary roported that no letter had been received from thp promoters of the meeting called in connexion with the statutory half-holiday. Messrs J. B. Sinclair and H. E. Gapper attended the meeting of the executive and it was unanimously decided to carry out tho wishes of the meeting held at the Parish, Hall, and forward a request to the Borough Council asking them to nominate Thursday as tho weekly halfholidav. The Wairewa County Council forwarded a copy of their hawkers' and pedlers' by-laws, and it was decided that nothing further be_ done until the secretary had communicated with the Geraldine Business Men s Association. Band Contest. The South Island Bands' Association has granted the application of the Temuka Business Men's Association to hold a B grade band contest J* Temuka at Christmas, 1927. A fee ot £2o has to be forwarded and the, providing of music and the appointment of the judge °re matters the executive committee have to attend to. m p «t, T formation on tho subject. j

GERALDINE. A quarterly meeting of the commit J of the Geraldine Plunke Society was held in the Parish Ha yesterday afternoon Mrs J. &mctau Thomson occupying the cl nurse reported that she P a JJ visits during the month, haun motored 567 miles, and had Teceivea 7" Wsits at the Plunket room. Ihere wire five new babies. From the statement of the treasurer, together with ™ estUnate of receipts and expenditure til the end of Mardl.lt appeared 1 tin' the Branch would end the with *oo less in hand than last vear Mrs Guvon Maedonald reported K the Borough Council had granted uermissfo.f to liold a street collection J£ Plunket Day, February 2nd. when &rJ would also be a sale of produce S The committee then proceeded to make arrangements tor the forthcoming sale and collection. "Tuesday was a very, warn day. the shade temperature being W, but *h« SSS cSnuU vestcrday morning-