Manawatu Herald THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1926 LOCAL AND GENERAL.
The Bandmaster (Mr TI. Osborne) requests all bandsmen In parade in nmfli to-morrow evening'. The Shannon Chamber ol' Commeree intends holding- a “ladies’ night’’ on Deeemher 2nd, at which members of (lie local Chamber have been requested to be present, A totalisator proprietor, who operates chiefly on the West Coast, received a surprise packet in hi< mail recently. A sum of money amounting to nearly £IOO, was enclosed in an envelope with an anonymous letter, which stated that “this money belongs to you.” The special committee set up hv the local Chamber of Commerce to enquire from a dairying concern the conditions attaching to the establishment of a dairy factory in Foxton, have received certain information which will be submitted to the next meeting of the Chamber. We have received a complaint at the brief report of the concert given by a talented company from Palmerston N. on behalf of the Citizens Queen. We regret that it was impossible for a representative to be present on the occasion but we would have been only too pleased 1o have published a full report had same been forwarded to us. We can assure the Citizens’ Queen eandidai** that we regret the omission and that we arc)only too pleased to give her equal publicity with any of the other candidates. The death of the late Mi' F. Pirani was the subject of regretful comment at last night’s meeting of the Wanganui Education Board. The chairman (Mr W. A, Collins) said Mr Pirani had been a zealous worker for the cause of education in this district, and many fine school buildings were monuments to his enthusiasm. Mr D. W. Lowe endorsed the ehnirman’s remarks, and a motion of condolence with the late Mr Pirnni’s relatives was> carried in silence.
This week Hie Fox ton public have the opportunity of attending twenty two different forms of amusement, made up of eoneerts, card parties, picture entertainments, lfouse parties, shop days, etc. Two extra attractions have been added to the list. The C. M. Ross Co.’s rose show, entry free, 3 good prizes. Send along your best bloom before 11 o’clock Saturday morning .Hosiery week, which commences to-day. See windows for the best value in hosiery on offer here or elsewhere.! The New Zealand Meat Producers’ Board has just completed taking Christmas orders for presents of single carcases of prime New Zealand lamb to be delivered to friends in the Old Country, For the eoming Christmas season the Board lias received over 2,500 individual orders, which constitutes a'fresh record. Up to the present date close on 9,000 orders have been received since the inception of the scheme. These lambs are distributed to all parts of the United Kingdom, and are proving a valuable advertising medium in introducing prime Now Zealand lamb to new consumers at Home.
Says the Wanganui Chronicle; — “Incidents which occurred during the celebrated “German piano” controversy at Foxlon, were recalled by Mil J. K. Hornbiow, in the course of remarks made at the Education Board’s meeting last night. Referring to Mr J. Aitken’s proposal that a legal opinion be obtained on the question of Bible teaching in schools, he said the step proposed was more warranted than was the legal advice taken at the time of the Foxton piano dispute. On that occasion, he said, the Board spent money uselessly, and brought itself into ridicule, by taking advice to sec if it could prosecute him (Mr Hornbiow) for trespassing oh the school premises as a member of the school committee.”
The suggestion made recently by Dr. 11. J. C. Wilkie, school medical offijeer, for the establishment next year of a nutrition class at Northcote School similar to that in operation at the Normal School, was discussed by the * school committee last week (stales the “New Zealand Herald”). It was stated that under the scheme from 20 to 30 children up to Standard 2. would be selected for special treatment, designed to build up their physique, including’ the supervision of lunches to ensure that only wholesome' foods were consumed. Members ol the committee desired information concerning tho number of children likely l„ n be drafted into the class, and in order to have fuller information it was decided to call for a report from the headmaster and another fi'om Dr. Wilkie.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3564, 18 November 1926, Page 2
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