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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 219, 16 August 1937, Page 1

TO-NIGHT SPECIAL SPRINGBOKS V. ALL BLACKS Thrilling Incidents of the First Test at Wellington on Saturday: , KOSY THEATRE Scientifically Heated for Your Comfort. TO-NICHT, 6.30 and 8 p.m. THREE SENSATIONAL ATTRACTIONS Brimming over with Comedy, Thrills and Action. Attraction No. 1— LONG! LOUD!! LAUGHS!!! You are cordially invited to see the screen’s scrappiest couple bury the hatchet .... in each other’s neck. RALPH BELLAMY IDA LUPINO WALTER CONNOLLY In Columbia’s Greatest Laugh Hit. “LET’S GET MARRIED” ’ (Approved, for Universal Exhibition.) Attraction No. 2 He had the name without the game—until desperation drove him into the ranks of the underworld! “THE MAN IN BLUE” (Recommended by Censor for Adults.) A New Universal Picture, with ROBERT WILCOX NAN GREY (Lovely Heroine of ‘‘3 Smart Girls.”) Attraction No. 3 “JUNGLE JIM” Ep. 7, “The Earth Trembles.” Gaiety and Gladness, MOVIE CHARITY BALL. AUG. 18th.

WRESTLING. AMATEUR CHAMPIONSHIPS AMATEUR CHAMPIONSHIPS AMATEUR CHAMPIONSHIPS To bo held at the OPERA HOUSE. ON WEDNESDAY NIGHT ON WEDNESDAY NIGHT Some of the Finalists may reach the N.Z. Championships and. some may—who knows—represent N.Z. in Sydney at the Empire Games. Prices: Ringside Seats Is; Boys 6d; Ladies Free.

BOX PLANS NOW OPEN BOX PLANS NOW OPEN For the WRESTLING At tli© OPERA HOUSE ON THURSDAY NIGHT, ON THURSDAY NIGHT, When the hig fight will be on between 1,0 IT Y BLOMFIELD (New Zealand’s Playboy) and KING KONG COX (“Wrestling’s Roughest Man.”) LOFTY was too playful last time and was disqualified for punching. K.K. COX, water bottle and ’neverytliing, wanted a return bout —and here it is! PRICES: os, 4s, 3s, 2s (plus tax).

GRAND CONCERT. Q UNDAY EVENING, AUGUST 22, 0 At 8.30 p.m. STATE THEATRE Given by General Motors Orchestra of 28 players from Wellington. In aid of Whakarongo School Queen Fund. Booking at N.Z.I. Co., The Square. NEW ZEALAND CENTENNIAL EXHIBITION. A MEETING of representatives of Local Bodies, Business Firms, and Citizens interested will be held at the Council Chambers at 8 p.m. on TUESDAY, August 17, 1937, to hear addresses on matters relating to the New Zealand Centennial Exhibition by T. C. A. Hislop, Esq., Mayor of Wellington, and Chairman of Directors of the Exhibition Company, and Sir Charles Norwood, Chairman of the Finance Committee. A. E. MANSFORD, Mayor and Convener. August 13, 1937. PUBLIC MEETING. NATIONAL BLOOD TRANSFUSION SERVICE. A PUBLIC Meeting will be held at the City Council Chambers on Thursday evening, the 19th August, at 7.30 o’clock, for the purpose of forming a Ma.nawatu Branch of the Natoinal Blood Transfusion Service. Dr. P. P. Lynch, Chairman of the National Council of the Service, and Mr C. Meachen, Hon. Secretary, will be present to furnish full information, and the object of the meeting will be firstly to form an active Committee and subsequently to enrol a strong membership. . A. E. MANSFORD, President, P.N. Sub-Centre, St. John Ambulance Assn.

CLOSING DOWN SALE MRS LANDERS' English SILK AND WOOL HOSE, 6s Gd. NOW 3s lid English BLACK GYM HOSE. Size 2, FROM 2s 6d. 81 and 9 were 8s lid NOW 4s lid Maids’ Navy "Wool BLOOMERS, 8s lid NOW 4s lid COATS, FROCKS, COSTUMES, Are Selling Quickly. Opp- Shillings CUBA STREET.

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