LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 3774, 31 March 1928, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

It is rumoured that a certain private hospital at Gore raised an objection to the unlucky number 13 being applied to it by the workmen at present erecting the house numbers. The objection was met, and 14 given to the place in question.

The annual Golden Offering and harvest thanksgiving services will be held in the Presbyterian Church to-morrow. The morning service will be conducted by the minister and the evening service by the Rev. George Brown, M.A., of St. Andrew’s, Palmerston North. A maerocarpa li’edge bounding Mr G. A. Tver’s property in Robinson Street caught fire at midday to-day, and was responsible for the siren sounding,. The Brigade quickly extinguished the outbreak, The cause of the .fire was the result of someone throwing a match near the growth. As the result of the unseemly conduct of some negro entertainers with white girls at Melbourne, the Federal Government has decided in future that permits to enter Australia as members of bands or entertainers will not be granted te. negroes. Cabinet is considering a similar ban on negro boxers. Our corner window is now full of interest for those who wish to win our free gift to the highest cash purchaser each day. Here, too, the Foxton Rugby Football team can be seen scoring their first- try against the All Blacks in 1929.—TOMPKINS’, Co-op. Draper.*

On Wednesday evening, the teachers and senior scholars entertained Miss Madge Patterson at the Manse and on behalf of the Presbyterian Sunday School and presented her with a suit case as a token of I'heir appreciation of her work in the school and church. Miss Patterson leaves Foxton to enter the nursing profession at the Palmerston North Hospital next week.

The pupils of the D.H. School entertained their parents and friends at a most enjoyable social in the High School building on Wednesday evening. Games, competitions, vocal items and dancing were indulged in. Master Malcolm Mason made an efficient M.C. The High School girls had charge of the supper arrangements. The headmaster in an appropriate address, said- it was hoped in the future to encourage the social side of school life. i

Frederick John Vicks, of the Wairarapa, was fined £2O by Mr. J. S. Barton, S.M., in the Wanganui Magistrate’s Court on Thursday for being drunk in charge of a motoroar in Ridgway Street) and he was declared unfit to hold a driver’s license, for twelve months. Sergeant Sivyer said accused was seen by two constables driving the car, and he nearly had a collision. Accused said he had some drinks, but was not a drinker. He asked that his license be not cancelled, but a prohibition order be issued. “What’s the use of a prohibition order when you say you are not a drinker?’’ asked the Magistrate.