LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 2116, 17 April 1920, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A meeting of all interested in football will 1)0 held in the Town Hall supper-room on Tuesday evening next, at 8 o’clock., A. special meeting of the Foxtun Borough Council will he held on Monday, at 7.80 p.m., to confer with Mr Climie ve water and drainage proposal.

The annual Installation Ceremony and Investiture of Officers in connection 1 with the local Masonic Lodge has been fixed for May 19lh. The lady friends are to be entertained at a social function in the evening.

It is quite unusual to lind two headliner stars featured in one picture. This is (fie case* however, in “The Devil Stone,” the attraction at the Town Hall on Monday evening. Wallace Reid and Geraldine Farrar arc the stars.

The population, of .Auckland is move than twice Hhat of Dunedin. The Gazette gives the estimated population of both cities on January Ist, 1920, as 144,64 G qpd 72,048, respectively. Christchurch, with 101,747 people, is slightly bigger than Wellington, with 100,898.

At a recent meeting of the Foxton Ride Club it was decided to hold a series of dances during the season, and the first of these will be held in the Coronation Hall on Thursday evening next. All arrangements age well in hand, and Thursday evening’s dances should be one of the most enjoyable functions of its land.

During*the night of the fire which destroyed Mr Perreuu’s premises, a number, of tables and chairs were removed from the marble liar for safe keeping. As Mr Perreau is about to re-open the marble bar, and requires the furniture, he will he pleased to now take delivery of same.

Those eligible for election, and to vote at Monday night’s School Committee election must reside within the school district, u three-mile area, and have been resident in the district for a period of not less than three months. Boarders are not 'eligible to vote. The wife of., any householder has the same right as her Jiiisband.

As Anzac Day this year falls on a Sunday, the Prime Minister has asked ministers of all'religions to hold special services on that day. Followers of the popular winter pastime of skating will be pleased to learn that the '.local 1920 season opens at the Town Hall on Tuesday next, 20th hist.

A sharp earthquake shock was experienced locally at: about 12.45 a.m. yesterday. The shock was preceded by a rumbling noise, and was followed by a prolonged tremor. The Mayor (Mr J. Cliry.stall) will perform the unveiling ceremony of the local Fallen Soldiers' Memorial on An/.ac Day, Sunday, 251 b inst. All returned soldiers and relatives of (he fallen will be specially invited to the ceremonv.

Rapid progress is being made with the erection of temporary premises Tor I lie C. M. R oss Drapery Co., in Main Street.- It is anticipated (hat the temporary premises will'be occupied within the next fortnight. A thick coating of Belmont, metal has been laid on (he corner of (ho Avenue leading ,info Main Street. This will have the effect of causing motor traffic to slow up, as speed will mean a new set of lyres. •

Sir James Allen, who is at present in Wellington, will proceed south next week, anil will be entertained at a number of complimentary gatherings, including a threw el

from his Info constituents in the Brin-.e electorate. Ho is due lo leuvo Wellington on llm 20th insl. for Great Britain to take np 11m duties of 1 ligh Commissioner.

The writ, for (lie Stratford election is returnable within .21 days after it has been issued; that is, the election must place, and the voles be counted within that time. The election will therefore take place about ten days after (be issue of (he writ, sav about April 27-th or 28th.

The spade with which the Prince of Wales will scalier the earth around the young oak tree in the Master-ton Park is being' manufactured by a Masterlon jeweller. If is staled that the Prince will lower the tree into the hide by means of a silken cord attached to a tripod. Jle will then scalier the earth, nrouud the tree with the specially engraved souvenir spade.

General BramwelTPoolb, bead of the Salvation Army, will visit New Zealand in -tune, arriving- in Wellington on the Till. The Mayor of Wellington has arranged for a civic reception in Wellington on the following day. The visit of General Booth will be marked by special gal borings under the auspices of the Salvation Army, including a national convention, opening on J-unc 20th.

A meeting of owners and occupiers of land g-ilhin the Hooding areas of the Manawatu and Oroua rivers will be held at the office of the Manawatu A. and P. Association, Palmerston Xorth on Monday next, at 11.30 a.m. The business of the meeting is lo consider the question of forming a River Board for the purpose of effectively dealing with

Llie channels of (lie Manawatu and Oroua rivers, so as to pvoteel 1 lie adjoining lands front damage by Hood waters. All properly.,owners within tite affected areas are urgently invited io ho present.

The autumn and winter session of the Life-Having Scouts opened on Wednesday last, when a good attendance was secured. Pyramid drill and patrol drill was successfully carried out under Scoutleader Beale, and parents are asked lo send (he boys regularly every Wednesday, at 0 o'clock. The Mayor of Palmerston has sent an invitation for the Scouts and Guards to he present at (nWreception to the Prince on Monday, 3rd May.

Mr L. Fume, lion, secretary of the local W.E.A. class, has been in communication with Mr A. Leigh Hunt, president of the Greater Wellington Town Planning Association, with tiie object of getting him to deliver an address in Foxton. A reply has now been received from Mr Hunt, regretting bis inability to ac-

eept the invitation just now, hut advising that it is probable during the next few months that he would undertake a lour of the provincial towns, in.which case he would do his best to include Foxton.

We hear a great deal about tjj.e amount of petty thieving that goes on 'in Fox ton, but apparently other towns are as bad, if not worse off, in this respect. Last week a well known settler at Awapuni had his potato patch raided, a horse and dray being used to lake away the .-.pods. Another resident had the misfortune to’lose 1,200 feet of thigher from a stack required for the erection' of a new home. The thieves on this occasion used a motor lorry to carry away the timber. Another farm had 150 pullets stolen, it has been said that in some places, if you don’t keep your mouth shut your teeth will be stolen from your mouth. In Levin the thieves are nearly as bad as that, and while there has so far been no complaint from anyone who has lost their teeth, a property owner there has lost six heavy posts that had.been placed securely in position. During the night they were drawn from the ground and taken away. A night or two afterwards another resident tethered his horse out on a long length of rope, but found next day that theWope had been cut close up to the post, and a short piece had also been left dangling from' the horse’s neck.- The long piece in between had disappeared. Thi- owner is not ungrateful, as he says ho has still got his horse and the post.

The united services for the ensuing four weeks have been arranged in the Ministers’ Association as follows; —Tuesday, 20th in--1., Methodist Church, Rev. Ilall.iday; Tuesday, 27th inst., Salvation Army Hall, Rev. Harding; Tuesday, May -Ith, Presbyterian Church, Rev. Raiue; Tuesday, May 11th, Methodist Church, Ca])tain Godin.'