Manawatu Herald THURSDAY, NOV. 23, 1922. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 2509, 23 November 1922, Page 2

Manawatu Herald THURSDAY, NOV. 23, 1922. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

(<c‘ltl It'ltl.'i 11 ill professional occupation ii‘<‘~ hoard and residence with respect;ihie private family.

During Mr .McDonald's indisposilion, .Mr 1.. Kerr, of PalincrMon N. railway stall', will act as relieving .-'l a I ioiiiiiasl ('f.

Mr 11. T. Klyger. Lihern I-La hour candidate fur Maiiawalu, will address i lie (‘lednrs a! Foxton on Tliiirsday evening next.

The proficiency examinntinns at li.e Ideal Stall* sehool were hold mi Tuesday. The lisi of passes will he published lalcr.

.Mr I). Christie, president of the deal Bowling Clnh, has been elected (■lie of the vice-presidents of the .Mnnawatu Bowling centre.

la our report of tin* Cottage Gnr- • hiis Competition, in onr last issue, ii was slated that Mr I). W'liihley had been placed second for the combined garden. This should have read “Mr i). ('hrislie."

A few days ago Mr Thomas Beasley, a lishcrnian. of Ngahauranga (Wellington harbour) landed tt shark oft. -1 in. in length. When opened it was found to contain no less than 27 young sharks.

One of the features at the local show i> a display of .Japanese radishes. IS inches long, grown by Mr A. IJeastnan from seed imported from Australia. Our representative was informed that these mammoths are oliily half developed!

At one of his recent meetings. Mr Douglas l.ysnar M„l\, was dealing with public expenditure, and reeling off reams of figures running into hundreds of thousands. Suddenly during a momentary paitsf, a wag in the audience called out: “You're wrong Doug. You’re wrong—you’re two pounds out."

A centenarian, Mrs Harriett Barsons, widow of Mr .John Parsons, died at Te Kopuru Hospital on the Kniparu Harbour, recently. Mrs Parsons who entered upon her .100 ill yen i* l>t*i‘ore her <le;ith, was the til's] while woman to arrive at the township of Pnparoa about (ill years ago.

Mr P. D. HoHings, S.M., has commenced practice as a barrister and solicitor at Koxlon and has opened otliecs In Main Street. Mr Hotting- was formerly in practice in Masterton for twenty-one years, and Wits Mayor of that town for some time. In 1919 he was appointed Slipendary Magistrate at Marlborough. and having retired from the Magisterial Bench has resumed the practice of his profession in Koxlon.

lie annual spring show of the igotea Horticultural Society was tied yesterday. There was a ;e attendance at the opening, a Mr J. (floyn introduced Mr Mater, who performed the openceremony. Mr Linklater copulated the society on the splendisplay of flowers. Mr li. New- , ALP., had for many years periled ' that function and hoped his being asked to do so was it 1 omen and that he would he jd to accept a greater honour ecember next.

Woods' Great Peppermint Cure, for Coughs aud Colds, never fails.*