Local & General

Chronicle (Levin), 15 March 1949, Page 3

Local & General

Personal Mr. and Mrs. C. M. Cronquest, of Stout Street, have returned home after spending a holiday in ; the Nelson district. Variety Show Tonight Shannon people will have . the opportunity of seeing an excellent fiesh and blood show in the Druids' Hall this evening, when the Town Queen Committee of the memorial carnival will stage its variety show. Among those who will make their appearance on the stage are Miss Nona Kingsbeer, the first candidate for the Miss New Zealand quest, Jim Fiebig, Tubhy Allen, Ngaire Butler, Vincent Balgrave, Bob Ross, Caryl Reid, Colin Thompson, Norrie Denton, Elaine Aird and Cyril Stevens are other popular Palmerston North artists who will entertain. As the show conimences at 8 p.m. sharp, patrons are requested to he seabed by 7.55 p.m. Combined Workers' Picnic Owing to other attractions in Shannon over the wet >end, there w;as not a large rt . :esertation from the -town at u ie combined workers' picnic hel'1 on Easton Park, Foxton, last Saiurdt y. 0:^1,; one or "two car loads journeyed to the function. Some ten or 15 years ago, the "flaxies' " pienic, as it was then called, used to attract almost the whole of the town's population to Ashhurst, where an ffc 11 mu 11 ■ 1 ■■ 1 - ■■ I 1

excellent sports and novelty prch igramme; took , place. A special trainj would run from Shannon and m the time it arrived at Palmerston: . North it was filled "to capacity. However, the enthusiasm died out with theeflax industry, and the pipnic has voniy -been revived alteS some time in recess.