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The following will represent Hokitika O/hl G'ii'ils to play Convent Old Girls at (St. Alary’s at 3 p.m. to-morrow :A. Henderson, M. Perry, AI. Peckleß F. Thompson. F. Fowler, J. Parkhill, V. Thorpe, P, Andrews, A!. Herring.
Joy riding in the air lia-s become quite a feature lately and th© public may be well advised that the plane is being used l'or pupils instruction:'l work in the morning and for public joy riding in the afternoon. .Scotty Fraser will make a parachute de'ceiit from -the aeroplane oil Sunday afternoon next.
Mr F. Holder, of We-tport who is
one of the All Black Rugby team to tour Australia, was fai'ewel'ed by tflifi Old Buys' Football Club which presented him with a handsome leather suit case suitably inscribed, in the shape of a shiver football. Mr Rudge Wood, President of the Old Boys' Club, in making the presentation, congratulated the 'recipient on being 'included in the At! Blacks and on behalf of his Club mate-, extended to him best wishes for a most successful trip.
To-morrow night (Wednesday) another big jubilee night at Rinui in aid of St. Alary's School. An excellent programme litas been arranged and the ball will he another attraction. The lnus’e will be in the hands of the Rods Orche-tra. A sumptuous supper will be provided, and the floor is in first class order. An invitation is extended to one and all. cspecial'y all old pupils of tli e school. Join the crowd and help the worthy object. Keenan's Motors will leave town at 7.39. Performer-: please note clock tower, 7.35.
The extent to which tlhe price oi wool has fallen, mea.sured in terms of manufactured woollen goods, was pointedly brought home to a Canterbury farmer a few days ago. Me wanted a new suit of iilotlie-r and lie called on a Christchurch linn and offered to give a hale of. wool, 400'I > in weight, in payment for the suit. To iii.s surprise lie, was toid that the value of the woo], the product of about fifty cross-bred sheep, did not equal tlhe pr'ec of the -■nit. The value of the dOOll l of wool, after the farmer had paid (shearing and cartage was only about 3|d a lb. ’ " I
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Hokitika Guardian, 14 June 1932, Page 6
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374LATE LOCALS Hokitika Guardian, 14 June 1932, Page 6
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