Manawatu Herald SATURDAY, MARCH 24, 1923. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 2559, 24 March 1923, Page 2

Manawatu Herald SATURDAY, MARCH 24, 1923. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Palmerston North has raised the sum of £773 odd to date for the Sir Arthur Pearson Fund for the blind of New Zealand.

The solist at the Methodist Church to-morrow evening will be Miss F. Chalk. On Easter Sunday Miss M. Sawyer, of Wellington, will sing. Mr McDowell, manager of the Awa Downs Dairy, notifies customers that he has made special arrangements for supplies of cream to customers.

Mr Potts, licensed plumber and draiulayer, notifies the public that he has obtained the premises previously occupied by Mr Harris, next to the Herald Office, as a work shop. The s.s. Kennedy will be placed on the slip for the annual overhaul on Wednesday next. The vessel will be out of commission for about ten via vs.

On Sunday Captain and Mrs Coffin will visit the local Corps of the Salvation Army. It will be remembered that they were stationed here some three or four years ago and during that time made many friends. They are glad to visit Foxton and renew old acquaintances', also are anxious to meet the young men of the town and district, A full hall is anticipated on Sunday. Mr C. E. Macmillan, the Reform candidate for the Tauranga seat, is apparently a. man of no small dimensions, as the following from a Tauranga correspondent- of the New Zealand Times will signify:— “If. may be said without impertinen - ce that Mr Macmillan easily turns the scales at 20st. and would make short work of a contestant under Cumberland or Border tests of strength. He is an active giant and enjoys his material advantages.