Manawatu Herald SATURDAY, AUGUST 30. 1924. LOCAL AND GENERAL

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 2778, 30 August 1924, Page 2

Manawatu Herald SATURDAY, AUGUST 30. 1924. LOCAL AND GENERAL

Tin* Bond will render a programme of music in (lit* Alain Sl.reel tin’s evening a! (1.30 o'clock.

A mii versa rv services in connection with the Fox 1 1 >n Methodist L'imrcli are being hold to-morrow, "'lien Rev. S. Rcryman will preach morning and evening. 'l’he choir, under the leadership of Mr 11. Os borne, will assist at the evening service.

Rev. >S. and .Mrs Reryman entertained a number of friends at the Methodist Schoolroom on Thursday evening in honour of the coming- of age of their son, Mr Erie Reryman, B.A. The guest, who is on a visit to his parents, is one of the masters at the Wellington College.

It is expected that Lord and Lady -Jellicoe will leave New Zealand towards the end of September. Sir Charles Fergusson, !lie newly appointed successor, and Lady Fergusson, arc expected to arrive at the end of the year. Sir Robert Stout, Chief Justice, acts as Administrator during the interregnum.

The local representative of the Hospital Board desires to sincerely and publicly thank Mrs Morgan, Captains Liilingsfon and Stevenson (of the local Salvation Army) end Miss Healey for their services in nursing Mr and Mrs Wilson prior to the removal of the old couple t<> the hospital this morning. There is on view in Mr J. Colder s window, a large photograph of Miss Neale, L.T.C.L., etc., and her magnificent harp, which cost £240, and which will be played tit the versatile band carnival concert nexl Thursday night. Miss Neale holds 22 diplomas, three of which, bearing the above initials, are also on view.

The Education Board has appealed Mr Robert S. Warwick as first • ssistant at the local State school, o till the vacancy caused by the reirement of Mr Davidson. Mr Warrick is at present head teacher of he Scarborough School (Rahiatua) aid has had 20 years teaching exlerience, Mr Warwick is a married aau with three children.

“T hea*r you luitl McPherson slay ing \\ i 11 1 y<«u for ilic week-eml. Will'll tlitl \*>ii tlo willi him mi Saturday evening l / Take him In the mu.sicI*a 11 "X". 1 ilitln'l care to lake ilo* risk. You see lu* might have laughed in cliurcli on Sinhfay. .lolin Hay, a farmer, of Helena |!av ( Wlianyarei), aseemlctl a Kauri I ret* on his farm for I he purpose of obtaining ,-onie gmh. When he had reached a height of 3011. hy some mischance, lie missed his fooling and fell to tile ground, sustaining a compound fracture of the rigid' leg shove the ankle, besides injuries to the left leg anil also his jaw.

An interesting fact mentioned hv the Mayor (Mr Hobson) at Monday's function a! Levin, was that in the lirsl si.\ monlbs of this year Levin enjoyed 1378 hours of recorded sunshine, an, average of six hours daily, which for the winter months would challenge comparison with any other town in New Zealand. “You must have got Wellington's share of the sun,” was Mr Linklaler’s subsequent comment.

An extraordinurv coincidence occurred in Invercargill* when a local resident listening-in on a receiving set at a friend’s house which lie was visiting, was astonished to hear it announced that his sister, Miss V. Brook, of Dunedin, would sing “Ever id’ Thee I am Fondly Drepming.” He also heart! her sing her remaining programme numbers, Ihe Land of't lie Sky Blue Water,” “The Bird end the Babe,’’ and “I Wonder if Ever a Rose.” Miss Brook has been in Sydney for the past few weeks but her brother had no idea she was to sing at a concert on that parti*' ,-ular evening. The concert was heard through 28. L., Sydney.