Manawatu Herald TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1928. LOCAL ARID GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 3760, 28 February 1928, Page 2

Manawatu Herald TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1928. LOCAL ARID GENERAL.

The Foxton Football Club will bold their usual weekly dance ia the Masonic Hall next Friday evening. The commercial travellers of Palmerston N. raised a net amount of £250 on Saturday for oh arities. A special meeting of the D. IT. School Committee will be held this evening to receive applications for /and to appoint a janitor. A Chinese fruiterer was lined £ls and costs at Wanganui yesterday for selling apples and peaches unlit for human consumption. The Oroua Downs annual sports meeting will be held to-morrow. Large entries have been received for all events, and a good meeting is anticipated. At the local police court yesterday morning, before Mr. J. K. Hornblow J.P., a statutory first offender arrested for drunkenness on Saturday evening, was convicted and fined 5/-. Magistrate Stout, when asked to suppress the name of an accused person at the Palmerston N. Court yesterday, said: “There is too much suppressing of names, and it is only in the case of young men that a name is suppressed. Your application is refused.”

The initial showing of pictures at the Royal Theatre on Saturday night under the management of the Borough Council, was quite successful. Despite the counter-attraction of the swimming carnival, both theatres were well patronised, the attendances being quite up to expectations.

At the Palmerston S.M. Court yesterday, Charles John Taunt, for riding with an open exhaust on a motor-cycle, of speeding in an outer area, and of: carrying no number' plates was fined £5 on the first charge, £2 on the second, and of costs only, amounting to 10/-, on the third.

At the Palmerston N. S.M. Court yesterday, William Alexander. Russell, a motor mechanic, was fined £2 or in default 7 days’ imprisonment for using indecent language and resisting the police. Sergeant O’Grady stated that accused had started to illtreat his wife, and when the police had been called in he had become abusive, making on arrest necessary.

A fire broke out in Mrs H. Harold’s drapery shop, at Oliura, on Saturday night, and the flames, fanned by a westerly wind, spread to Mrs J. Bleasel’s general store on the corner, then to Messrs Newton King’s offices and those of Messrs Simpson and Bats, solicitors, also to Mrs J. Se.erup’s drapery establishment and the premises of Mr J. Seerup, tobacconist, all of which were totally destroyed.