LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXV, Issue 1081, 3 April 1913, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL .

A replace advertisement from Mr M. Littlejohn will appear in next issue. The municipal skating rink opens to-night. The manager intends to open the rink every Tuesday and Thursday evenings. A meeting of sympathisers with the Bible-in-schools movement will be held in the Masonic Hall to-morrow night, at 8 o’clock. At the local police court this morning, John D. Speight was convicted on a charge of drunkenness and ordered to leave the town.

A meeting of footballers is to be held in the Mahawatu Hotel at 8 o’clock to-morrow evening to make arrangements lor the coming season.

No further particulars are yet to hand from the Railway Department in connection with the school excursion to visit the battleship New Zealand at Wellington.

A social afternoon, under the auspices of the Presbyterian Ladies Guild, was held at the residence of Mrs John Ross yesterday afternoon, and a most enjoyable time was spent. The Harvest Festival will be held in All Saints’ Church, on Sunday. All gifts of Iruit and vegetables will, after the Festival, be forwarded to St. Mary’s Home, Karori.

The silver trowels presented to the Hon. Mr Luke and G. H. Stiles Esq. at yesterday’s foundation stone-laying ceremony, were manufactured locally by Mr Parkes.

Mr C. S. Compton, organising secretary for the Masterton Competitions Society, paid a visit to Foxton yesterday with a view of creating a local interest in the July competitions. A number of programmes containing full particulars of the competitions have been left at this office, and we shall be pleased to pass them on to probable competitors.

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The Queen of the South, which arrived off the bar on Sunday afternoon, but got stuck in crossing and on getting off again stuck at Duncan’s bend, got up to the wharf yesterday morning. She loaded last night with hemp for Wellington, but has been unable to get away on account of the rough weather. If the weather improves she will sail to-morrow morning.

In order to allow each grader to gain experience of the hemp passing through the different ports, and to get into closer touch with eacluother’s work and thus maintain a uniform standard, temporary transfers are now being made’ and the local grader, Mr Petrie, has received notice to proceed to the Bluff, and Mr Middlemas at present stationed at the Bluff will take Mr Petrie’s place at the local sheds.

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