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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 1512, 19 February 1916, Page 2

The attendance shield at the local Slate school was won this week by Standard 11., with 99.2 per cent. Quarter-Master Sergt. S. A. Kelly of the 10th Reinforcements, is paying a week-end visit to his uncle, Mr J. M. Kelly. The adjourned meeting of the local State school committee will be held on Thursday evening next at 8 o'clock. Included among those who passed in two subjects in the senior Public Service examinations held in January last were two Foxton boys, viz., Henry Berthold and Leonard H. Daniell. On Wednesday last three rinks of bowlers from the Levin Club visited Otaki, and each one was defeated by the home team. The challengers for the Kinniburg Feathers suffered defeat by 22 to 15. A committee meeting of the local Horticultural Society will be held on Monday evening at 7.30 o’clock to appoint judges and stewards for the forthcoming autumn show to be held on the 9th and 10th March. A full attendance is requested. Mr M. H. Walker informs us that be has only 40 hens left out of the 150 advertised for sale. These constitute part of the flock of 1.100 which last year laid 160,561 eggs. The hens are purebred white Leghorns, heavy laying strain, and are sold at 2s each. The attendance at the local State school is very satisfactory. The roll number at the close of last year was 380. Since opening on February Ist, 49 pupils have been admitted and 35 withdrawn. The roll number is' now 394, and the average for the past two weeks was 347.5 out of an average roll of 356. The Prime Minister (the Rt. Hon, W. F. Massey) stated on Thursday that a communication has been received from the Imperial Government requesting the New Zealand Government to prevent any crossbred wools being shipped to neutral countries, as it is urgently required for Britain, and especially for the British Army. Mr A. E. Salisbury, assistant Government poultry instructor, was in Foxton last week, and visited Mr Walker’s poultry farm. Mr Salisbury said Mr Walker’s plant and equipment is one of the best in New Zealand, and he had no hesitation in saying that the brooder house was the best- He was very pleased with Mr Walker’s up-to-date methods in poultry farming. The newspaper proprietors of the Dominion will meet in conference at Rotorua this month. The directors of the United Press Association will meet on Thursday next, and the annual meeting of the association will be held on February 23. Meetings of the Empire Press Association and the Newspaper Proprietors’ Association will also be held. A horse sold from Levin pound last mouth for ,£5 10s is reputed to be a thoroughbred horse by Taitoko-Torpillo, and to be worth say, £SO or more to anyone desirous of owning a racehorse and risking money to win more. The horse came from Wirokino and was unclaimed in the pound for the statutory period.—Horowhenua Chronicle. The Secretary of the Foxton Ladies’ Patriotic Guild informs us that a meeting of the committee of both the Ladies’ Patriotic Guild and Girls’ Guild was called for Thursday night to discuss details ol: a proposed joint garden party. No members of the Girls’ Guild Committee put in an appearance. At the ordinary meeting of the Ladles’ Patriotic Guild yesterday afternoon, it was decided to hold an entertainment on the last Wednesday of April, details to be arranged later. The Prime Minister (.the Right Hon. W. F. Massey), who is chairman of the Recruiting Board, expressed his satisfaction on Wednesday with the response that is generally being made to the appeal to the local governing bodies to co-operate in the new enlistment scheme. For every one who had declined to help, there were at least nine local authorities who had determined to do everything possible to secure the success of scheme. The late John Davies, of Koputaroa, to whose death some reference was made in our last issue, resided for some years in Victoria before he came to New Zealand (as a young man). He was in the Cunard Line office at Liverpool, England, as a clerk during his teens. He arrived in Victoria during the goldboom period, and became a gold buyer for one of the leading banks. He also drove one of the Cobb and Co. coaches for a while. Before he was thirty years of age he came to New Zealand, and for over forty years he remained here. Goods of unquestionable quality, backed up by sound value and prompt delivery, that’s what we give every housewife who buys here. You practise true economy by dealing at Walker and Furrie’s, Foxton. BUY WHOLESALE FROM LAIDLAW LEEDS’ CATOLOG. IT’S FREE. ATTACK SUDDENLY. Colic and diarrhoea always attack suddenly, and must be stopped promptly. Consider the suffering tha£must be endured until a physician arrives or medicine can be obtained. Chamberlain’s Colic and Diarrhoea remedy gives immediate relief, and it seldom takes more than a couple of doses to completely check the attack. For sale everywhere.—Ad vt.