THE HUNTLY PRESS. PUBLISHED WEEKLY AT 1 P.M. FRIDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1915. Local and General

Huntly Press and District Gazette, Volume 4, 3 December 1915, Page 2

THE HUNTLY PRESS. PUBLISHED WEEKLY AT 1 P.M. FRIDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1915. Local and General

The Rev. M. J. Evans will preach in the Methodist Church on Sunday morning and evening. The meeting of the Huntly Cycle Club called for Monday last, lapsed for want of a quorum.

A sale of children’s garments will be held by St. Paul’s Sewing Guild in the Vicarage on Saturday, at half-past two. The miners working in Ralph’s and the Extended Mines were knocked off at 2 p.m. on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, owing to a shortage of trucks.

In another column of this issue Mr J. McNee announces that he has a large assortment of toys and Christmas Cards just arrived, all of which are of the latest designs and best quality.

The Auckland Dairy Produce Committee has fixed the wholeprice for butter and eggs for the week ending December 4 as follows : Farmers', separator and dairy butter, lOd. Eggs, lid per dozen.

Mr Elliot’s fortnightly auction sale will take place on Saturday, at 2 p.m., when, in addition to a quantity of furniture and household effects, a fine bay hack, and a large number of fowls and ducks will be offered, as also will a new and fast motor laueh. Councillor Cox, at Petone remarked, “ I have reliable authority for saying that an Austrian at Auckland, whose father is absolutely hostile to the British, has been given a commission in the Expeditionary Force. Such a state of things is a scandal. — Waikato Times.

Many people express the opinion that the time is quite ripe lor the application of a war tax to cover expenses for all patriotic purposes, and to make everyone, rich and poor, contribute a like proportion of their means to the Empire’s burden. Ngaruawahia Advocate.

We would remind our readers that Messrs Lawson and Swain will hold a monster auction sale of drapery and clothing at the Miners' Hall, at 1 p.m. to-morrow (Saturday), comprising men’s youth’s and boy’s clothing, boots and shoes. See advertisement and dodgers.

The following members of the Ninth Reinforcement have been sojourning in Huntly during the week on their final leave, and most of them return to the Tauherenikau Camp on Saturday evening : Cpls. J. W. Brown and J. Harris, L. Cpls. H, W. R. Sissons, A. L. Hooker, and R. Aitken, Pvts. W. Callaghan, J. Jefferson, and J. Timms.

Another of the Men's Services which have been held monthly at St. Paul’s Church was held last Sunday, the vicar preaehing on the subject of ** The purpose of the second coming of Christ.” There was a fair attendance and those who were there, must have been impressed by the very earnest and able address to which they listened.

The following advertisement appeared in the last issue of a Taranaki contemporary To help the Empire.—Three women, with small independent means, and used to farm life and work, and with practical farmer friend to advise in case of difficulty, offer to manage and carry on the entire work of any small farm in Taranaki, in order to enable any single farmer, or possibly brothers, to enlist at once. Milking by band and by machine understood ; backblock no disadvantage. —Reply in first instance, M.P.8., Herald Office