THE HUNTLY PRESS PUBLISHED WEEKLY AT 1 P.M. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1915. Local and General

Huntly Press and District Gazette, Volume 4, 15 October 1915, Page 2

THE HUNTLY PRESS PUBLISHED WEEKLY AT 1 P.M. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1915. Local and General

Miss L. Simpson, teacher of pianoforte music, notifies in another column that£she is prepared to take a. limited number of pupils. Names may be left at the Press Office. The Auckland Dairy Produce Committee has fixed the wholesale price for butter and eggs for tho week ending October 16 us follows : —Farmers’ separator and dairy butter, lOd. Eggs, 9d per dozen. Corpl. T. IT. Sissons has been spending his final leave in the Mining Town during tho weok. He leaves to-morrow (Saturday), to catch tho Main Trunk Express for Tauherenikau on Sunday night to join his Company, which is to reinforce the Earl of Liverpool’s Own. Mr S. Dixon announces in this issue.that atgenoral meeting of the Huntly Athletic Club will be held in tho King’s Hall, on the 18th inst., to consider the advisability of holding a sports meeting at an early date. Proceeds to go towards advancing the candidturo of the Queen of tho South. in connection with the arrival of two hospital ships at Wellington with wounded soldiers about the end of the month, tho Union Company will grant return tickets at single fares to the father and in thor or one next of kin of any soldier who wish to meet the vessels Tofua and Willochra. Those desiring tho concession must produce the necessary certificate from the Defence Department.

The Sunday School Anniver saryof the Presbyterian Church will be held on Sunday 17th, morning and evening. The Rev. •J. Richards will officiate. On Monday V tea and public meeting e held in the Masonic Haiw Programme by the children. ASiission Is. Mr J. Allen, \l;nister of Defence notifies in another column, that no person shjpl be lawfully in possession of arias,. accoutriments, ammunition, or military clothing, the property of the N.Z. Government, except bona fide members of the N.Z. Military Forces, will be prosecuted as the law directs. See advt. The attention of our readers is drawn to the fact that War Seal Stamps are on sale at the PRESS Office and at the Town Board Office. This method of helping the War Funds should commend itself to everyone and we would be glad to see a more extensive use made of this means. A Gazette Extraordinary published on Monday night contains additional regulations under the War Regulations Act, prohibiting the sale of books or other publications which may be deemed injurious to the public interest in respect of the present war. Anyone having such publication in his position shall be deemed guilty of an offence. At the recent Theory' of Music Examination held in connection with Trinity College, London, the following pupils of the local Convent were successful: — Junior Division: Myra Johnson, (honours), Heatherbell Martin, (honours), Joseph Battersby, (honours), Kathleen Porter, Edward Farrell. Preparatory Division: Laura Kelly (distinction.) In writing up the concert given by the Piccaninny Coons last week, our reporter inadvertently

omitted to make mention of the great assistance rendered by the Huntly Orchestra. We very much regret the omission, and take this the first opportunity of remedying it. As is usual in matters of this sort, thejorcliestra willingly gave its services gratis, and as usual, these were highly appreciated by the audience. In our advertising column appears a replace advertisement of Messrs Abbott Bros., Cycle and Motor Engineers, who have an up-to-date establishment in the Main Street, Huntly (opposite ~St. Paul’s Church), where they are stocking all sorts of bicycles and bicycle accessories. They also go J for repairing on extensive lines, their wofk including the repair ol perambulators, etc., thus offering to serve the public by obviating the freight charges whicn make it too expensive to get these things repaired in Auckland. The unfortunate accident which happened to some troopers on tlie train on Tuesday last, should be a warning to travellers not to lean out of windows when passing through stations. This is only about the second serious accident which has happened in tliis way since the installation of the tablet system, and it says much for the efficiency of the mechanism employed that with all the thousands of tablet arms in use, so few accidents have occurred. However, their is no dovice in the world which cannot go wrong, and travellers would bo well advised not to take chances, assume are in tho habit of doing.