NORTH CANTERBURY.

Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 18905, 21 January 1927, Page 7

NORTH CANTERBURY.

AMBERLEY. ' A. general meeting of the AmUerley Swimming Bath Committee was held recently" to receive the works and finance committees' reports. The works -committee reported that since the lasff general meeting the following work had been- done. All the excavations had. been'finished by free labour under tue supervision of Mr W. H. Hale:—A twostage K.L. centrifugal pump and a two horse-power three-phased. motor had been purchased, and placed in position in a shed built for the purpose. The contract for the concrete work was let to Mr J. A. Shaw, who had practically completed it. The finance committee reported as follows: —Thi profits from the Show Day luncheon were £46 8s 7d, contributions promised to date were £195 18s 10d, apd of this amount £B2 18s 4d had bocn received, leaving £ll3 Os 6d yet to come in. The amount at present in the Post Office was £129 6s lid. The electric pump, motor, shed,, material, and labour well, had been paid for bv the Domain Board. The Lands and Sur'vev Department bad been written to regarding the promised grant for Shifting the baths from the original site near the observatory, but no reply had yet been received. Messrs W. Boyce, E. Chamberlain, W. H. Hale, A. H. Busch, E. Stace. J. M. South, A. J. Watson, and C. J. Hndley were appointed guarantors on behalf of the Bath Committee with the Bank of New South Wales. A sub-committee was appointed to arrange an evening sports meeting in aid of the bath funds. COURTENAY, The many friends of the Rev. J. A. Brown, of Pa tea will regret to hear that he passed away suddenly last week. Ho had been in poor health for some months, but it Was thought that his health had considerably improved, when he was seized with a heart attack. Much sympathy is felt for Mrs Brown. KIRWEE. Since the rain last Thursday, the weather has been ideal for harvesting, and a large amount of oats has been either stacked or threshed from the stook. The grain seems to be. well fi»od, and on one farm in the Norwood district, over SOOO bushels of oats were threshed from the stook in one day. Wheat-cutting has been started "J some of the early patches, but this will not be. general for another week or ten d< Mr B. H. Ward had the misfortune to lose one of his horses recently, ihe horses wero grazing in a paddock, in whioh there was a Jersey bull. , On going for liis horses, Mr Ward found .one so badlv gored, that it bud to be destroyed." Most of the other horses sho«od signs of having been horned at %an oua times. • ■ ■