General Notes

Manawatu Times, Volume 69, Issue 58, 11 March 1944, Page 3

General Notes

Those music lovers who admire the golden voice of Mrs. P. Quinn will be able to hear her in their own homes on Sunday night. Mrs. Quinn will be heard over IZB on that night singing a bracket of ballads. She and her husband, Captain P. Quinn, are at present holidaying in the Queen City. A tennis match between a team from lvumeroa and the Woodville Club will be held on Sunday afternoon at Woodville. The club captain (Mr. R. Erwin) is trying to give games to members who did not travel to Palmerston North recently to play against the Linton Street Club. Some players have adopted the peculiar idea that, while it is o.k. to play tennis on Sunday, it is not right to play matches and will not turn out against Kumeroa. One small orchardist in the Hastings district has 40 401 b. cases of apples that, although in perfect condition, he cannot sell. The reason for their classification as second grade is rather a mystery. They are of a nice size, good shape and excellent taste as a sample sent to Woodville proves. With the present shortage of eating apples it is surprising indeed to find such fruit unsaleable. How many cases must be stored up all over the fruitgrowing districts if one small orchard has 16001 b. that can only be sold as pig food? Dame Rumour has it that the Woodville Mayoralty election will be a threecornered one. Two points of this triangle are easily named but the third is the mystery—to most people. It has been said that the object of this third candidate is primarily a vote-splitting one, and frankly it must be admitted that there is every likelihood of this objective being attained with the town’s No. 1 citizen elected on a minority vote. The same situation arose in the capital city. To offset the chance of vote-splitting the present Mayor has seen fit to withdraw his nomination for a further term. One wonders if Mr. liislop is establishing a precedent. Doctors have an unwritten Jaw which forbids them divulging anything told them by their patients. The priest follows the same law in his confessional and, to a certain extent, the lawyer, too, respects his clients’ confidences. .Some shopkeepers, however, seem to think the dealings of their - customers fair game for conversation and make no attempt to refrain from discussing what a certain person bought on a certain day for a certain occasion. In a small town like Woodville this is important. Nobody likes to know that everyone else knows how much was paid for, say, a pair of shoes and who paid for them. It’s bad business anyway. Next time the buyers will go elsewhere with their custom.