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Hokitika Guardian, 3 September 1925, Page 2

The Arnliiiin Dairy Factory Coy W||! receive 'Team on Monday next the 7th. inst.

The Juvenile Ball in the Public Hall Knkatahi takes place on Friday evening. and promises to attract- n very large attendance.

During the week small quantities of whitethait have been caught in the river, and Mahiuapnu Creek, but the

results so’far have not been of ti satisfactory a nature.

The Kumara Fire Brigade’s annual plain and fancy dress ball takes place in the Memorial Hall. Kumara on Friday evening. Very complete arrangements have been made for a very pleasant evening for patrons.

Tin* usual Saturday night- dame wil 'iu hold in the Soldiers' Hall. Mush hv Goodlellow and Koynish. Good floor eflieient M.C. Dancing at 8.30 p.m Come along and spend a pleasant hour ---Advt.

At a meeting of Justices of the Peace hohl at Creymouth on Tuesday afternoon it was decided to form an association tor the West Coast, and the meeting then adjourned after a subcommittee. consisting of Mr Meldrum S.M.. .Messrs Kettle, MeLoan, Bigneli ami Naylor had been appointed to draft rules for submission to a general meeting to he hold in about a month.

Mothers desiring information rob live to themselves or their charges wi he able to consult Nurse Spring, of th Plnnket- Society, at the Soldiers’ 11a on Friday afternoon at *‘l o’clock who the nurse will give her aid. Nuts Spring will devote Friday mottling t at their homes am those desiring calls may make appoint ments through the Mayoress (Mr George Perry) or .Mrs Perkins (tin Vicarage). Members of the Commit te. are reminded that a meeting is to In held in the afternoon of the above day

Al a meeting of the Boiler Rugby Fnion held last Saturday, Mr if. C. X. Watson wrote advising that the Westport School has the right to play Hokitika for the Bnller-West land Primary Sehools Championship, anti requesting t.tiai the mateli l,e arranged for September 12th.--'Resolved that the match lie arranged as requested, and that little 17 he complied with, but in the event of the Golden Bay team playing at Westport on that date the School match would be arranged as a. curtain raiser, and a donation would he made to the Hokitika team.

Ileal Denniston Crepe papers, till shades, special price lOd each. 9s fid dozen pieces. Books on how to make things from tin's paper free to buyers, McKay's. The T,ending Drapers.—Advt" Great preparations are being made at Schroder and Co’s. Special arrangements have been made to keep us supplied with the latest novelties in millinery, frocks, hosiery, gloves and fancy departments.—Advt. When your throat is affected by damp weather, take “XAZOL” on sugar. Removes huskiness and prev'' , os serious trouble. GO doses Is Gd. -.'dvr. Boiler Cleaning made easy, cost cut in half when you use Mexican ” Boiler Graphite. Gentle in action but very sure and won’t injure boiler. Booklet from R. P. M. Manning and Co., d Bedford Row, Christchurch.—Advt.

Mails and passengers by the ferry steamer connected with the West: Coast express at Christchurch, this morning. Owing to the Hospital .Juvenile Ball taking place this evening. the Soldiers Euchre tournament will not be held.—Advt. The wccklv assembly will be continued in the Public llall, Kanicri, this (Thursday) evening at 8 o'clock. Good music. Admission Is. Advt. The Municipal Band will rentier a programme at the Westland Hospital on Sunday afternoon next, weather permitting. A. strong southerly was blowing tliimoruing which lias brought up a very heavy sea. The morning was line, hut the wind was bitterly cold. Mr. D. .). Evans, who has been on a holiday jaunt to the North Island is returning to Hokitika by the evening train. Messrs W. .Lillies and Co will -eli hv auction at noon on Wednc-dav next in the mart one I larley-Davidsoti > -0 h.p. motor-cycle and side-car, seized by tlie bailiff under a distress warrant.

Roll I’p! 801 l l'p! great preparations are being made for a long night dance in tlie Three Mile Hall on Monday night, (loodfellow’s Orchestra. good supper, good floor. Admission: Cents 2s, ladies Is Gd.—Advt.

Messrs Newmans Alotnrs Ltd lmtity that they are taking over the business of Messrs I’aiiiineiit and Bergamini, from the Bth and will continue to run the extra services to Waiho on the dates in force by both firms. In the same connection .Messrs I’animent and Bergamini return thanks lor past support and ask lor all accounts to he paid h\ the 30th in-t.

A rot urn submit Ini by tho Railway Dop.iirtinoiit states tlr.it the cost of the automatic si"tiallin" Imm Rolleston to Stillwater was C07.1n0. The maintenance staff consists of two .supervisors. four assistants and a staff which also did other work. Ihe number of tablet porters required with a tablet, system based on the time-table schedules would be 2~>. The number of signalmen for interlocking if the automatic sionallinp power was not available at Sprinplield, Rhellield and Darfiold. interlocking would he six. inakiuji a total of ill. The average delav ner (rain run due to the automatic sienalline was deeimal “S minutes. t'infer the heading. ” Mall'roy- .Man of .Mark." " I'Ttll-Rack " in a recent issue of the New Zealand ■•Sportsman.’ remarks as follows, anent the nomination of Mr .lilies Alall'niy (eldest soil of Mr .1. t . .Malfroy. lormerly of ibis town) lor the Itliodes Scholarship: - I have p:, ki.n balore oi .1. Mall'roy lint in ii* * u nl his nomina t ion as lhe Victoria Co None candidate lor the Rhodes Scholarship a more detailed considci ntion may not lie out ot place. 1)1 him ii may lie said with more truth than 111 ally one else in Wellington he is a scholar and an athlete. K.xcelliii" in riinniiia: and football, be is well up to standard as a cricketer, tennis player and swimmer, lie is a liviii” example of what Cecil Rhodes' hoped to accomplish a> the result ol his scholarships. Too often do we see athletes without brains, and brainy people physically degenerate, (ceil Rhodes calls for a combination of brain and athletics. and it is not a very emionini eomI.illation at that. <>n many occasions lias .Mr Malfroy succeeded in carrying his I'niversit v throii"h the heat and litirden 'd the dav alike on the rnnni Held, the football "round, or i lie class room. While yet liudiii" lime he has been able to net bis .Master of Laws decree, he lias been able to keep perfectly lit physically, lie may lie depended upon, ii selected, to po into residence at Oxford to worthily represent the country from uhicli lie "ties. It. is to lie honed that his accident last, Saturday will leave with it no permanent ill-effects.