GEAR COMPANY PICNIC.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1000, 15 December 1910, Page 6

GEAR COMPANY PICNIC.

The. annual picnic of the Gear Meat Export Company's employees was held at Day's Bay. yesterday...'The weather was perfect and about 1500 people' were present. : The committee' had everything arranged in-splendid order,'and consequently there' ; was no hitch throughout'. tlie day.,.-'. The "greasy:.pig" .liurit. for ladies, was'very amusing, aiid after an exciting chase, a, brilliant capture was made-by Mrs. Carlton. Winners of' the other events wereßutchers' Race/- -Mr. Freeman. Fell monger y Race, Mr. Featherstone. Old Gentlemen's, Race, Mr. Parrant .1, C. Goddard 2. Abattoirs Race, J. Aston 1, Lcpper 2. Freezing Department Race, D. Boyd 1, J! Ryan 2. -Preserving Department Race, J. Asplet .-l, Wv Holdgate 2. Girls' Race, Miss' Smith 1, Miss Scrimshaw 2. Married Ladies' Eace.'-Mrs. Sharon 1, Mrs. Aitchison "2. - Open Handicap (100 yds.), Taplin'l,-Parker 2.

At the Mount Cook Police Station yesterday, before Mr. F. Lachman; J.P., Duncan Livingstone, for drunkenness, was fined 10s., or 48 hours' imprisonment ; James Troy, for habitual drunkenness, was sentenced to. one month's imprisonment; and a'first offender"was convicted and discharged. , . . - > The' anniversary concert'of tie Sydney Street Primitive Methodist Church • attracted a fair audience last evening. The programme .consisted of vocal items, dialogues, and recitations, and "was much enjoyed. The performers included: Misses Snelling, Florence, Pilling ■■ (3),. Fitzmaurice, Clark, Nicholas; tTie Rev. P. J. Cossuin, Messrs. Townshend, Cutfortli, and Manning. A notice to holders of trustees' certificates ill the New. Zealand, Loan and Mercantile Agency Company appears ill .this issue. . ,i . ■ ' , Mr. A. E. Preston, pork, butcher and poulterer, Willis Street, inserts- a special announcement in this issue. Messrs. -Ritchie and Sons draw attention, in an advertisement ,in this issue, to .the 11.M.5.- Ilotorua's shipment of herrings, haddocks, aiid sun-dried ling, etc. Particulars of some cheap bush farms arc advertised in this.issue by Messrs. Lewis and Co., Wanganu'i. A special display advertisement of Christmas gifts now on show at Messrs. Stewart Dawson and Co., jewellers, Lambtoil Quay, appears in this issue. Messrs. Scoullar's, Ltd., special announcement, with reference to a shipment of seasonablo gifts, appears -in' this issue. Mr. Newton King, auctioneer, New Plymouth, advertises particulars -in this issuo of a number of farms for sale. The Mayoress (Mrs. Wilford) will open the Young . Women's Christian Association's new rooms, Manners Street, to-day, at 3 p.m.' A stock sale will.be held at Waikanao on Tuesday, December 20, by Messrs. Abraham arid Williams . and Messrs. Dalgety and Co. Vor the Christmas holidays, Mrs. Mathewson, Lambtori Quay, is showing some'special value-in millinery. . A.Christmas announcement by Messrs. 13. W. Mills and Co., ironmongers, Victoria Street and Jcrvois Quay, with reference to their elaborate stock of electroplated and'.silver-mounted goods, appears .in this issue. . . , - .