LOCAL AND GENERAL

North Otago Times, Volume CVII, Issue 17166, 24 March 1927, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

At a meeting of ihe Oamaru Tx-o.- ■* " CJub Mr D. C. Clarke (Totara) .... fjji a vacancy on the e. The programmc for the jre was approved. Ihe sum ' .:) being allocated in stakes. i Charged with the theft of £60. the ! property of the Postmaster-General, a 3roung married woinan appeared Ixefore Mr W. S. Crombie. J.P. and was remanded to appear at Palrnex--ston next Tuesday. The x-epresentative cricket match i betwecn North Ofago an Otago was ; postponed yesteixlay on account of the wet weather. Provided the conditions are favourablc plajr will he commcnced at 9.30 this morning. Motorists who intend taking part in the run to the Waikouaiti Beach races on Saturday are advised that the time of daparture has becix altered to noon instead of 12.30 p.xn. The cars will line up opixosite the Police Station. I The Awamoa Bowling Club's tourney was postponed yesterday | till Saturday and further entxdes will he received up till Fridaj' night. The tournament will be played on the Phoenix Club's green which has been kindly lent for the occasion. ' The first and second icricket eievens of the Waitaki Boys' High School leave to-day for Timax-u to take paxT in the annual matches with Timaru High School. The Christchurch match is to be played next week and the first eleven goes north for this game on Monday. Some time back a suggestion was made that the North End Ratepay- | ers' Association should amalgamate i with the Burgesses' Association, a I newly-formed hody that can hardly j be said to have the hacking the ratepayers' organisation has. The question was before a recent meeting of the latter body and it was wisely delcided not to join up with the Burgesses' Association. Three yachtsmen, Rowson, Morgan and Lowe. of Whangarei had j their motor boat cast on a shelf on i the rocks and scrambled _ ashore i with a few provisions, abandoning j the hoat as lost, and spent a bitteri ly cold night on the cliffs. Distress i signals were seen by Zane Grey : from this 3*acht, who rescued the j party and towed the yacht which | was badly damaged to Port Fitzroy. i When the Conciliation Council • met at Wellington yesterday in the j hotel and restaurant woi'kers' disj pute, Mr Hammond voiced a proi test against the unrestxdcted sale of j goods by railway refreshment ; rooms to people in the neighbourj hood at hours when the general rei tail trade was forced by law to 1 close. A unanimous resolution, ! which the Commissioxier said had j his support, was carried, to be fori warded to the Pxdme Minister, ! .against such saies to the nonj travelling public, and also asking j that saies be confined as far as | possible to those for whose convenI ience the rooms were estahlished; • and that the rooms he opened not j earlier than 20 rixinutes before the j arrival of any passenger train and l not later than 20 minutes after dei parture. I . n