THE OTAKI MAIL. Published on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 14, 1922. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Otaki Mail, 14 June 1922, Page 2

THE OTAKI MAIL. Published on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 14, 1922. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

* Train arrangements for the Palmerston X. show are advertised. As u result of the Native garden party. held recently, .the sum of £45 Ids was raised. The police cells at Raglan were Occupied for a first time for four years on one night last week. No fewer than seventy-one ‘* clearing sales'' are advertised in a new Plymouth paper. The Taranaki Rugby Union has agreed to play .a match with Manawatu tit .Strtford on August 10th. Messrs A. and L. Seifert’s tia.xruill at Miranui trill resume operations this week. The Cabaret on Monday proved enjoyable. till present passing a very pleasant time. Mr Grayling, contractor for -he Otnhi water-works, arrived to-day and •• ill start work to-morrow. ‘•’Say it with Music” and ‘‘Over the Hill” are Welling!on ’> latest craze songs. Both ate obtainable nr Mr Lowry's. La c t week five youths made the trip across the ranges from Grey-town to Otaki —a very dangerous undertaking for this time of the year. The shop day. to be held on x'mday by Mrs ’Williams for rest resort funds, should wove a success. Boiled hum, sucking pig. pressed and potted me: ts, pies, pastry, etc., will all be offered to the general public. The euchre party, held in the Druids ’ Hail lost night, proved very enjoyable. Air A. Jones won the gents’ prize and Mr H. Jones the booby, while Mrs J. Fairley won the ladies’ trophy and Mrs T. Morgan the consolation. Supper was served and enjoyed.

The shop for the Otaki rest resort will be oi)en to-morrow from 10.30 u.m. All sorts of meats, etc., will be offered for sale. At. a meeting of the Mutt County Council yesterday the registrar of dogs was given authority to destroy all unregistered dogs. A meeting was held at Tuita on Friday evening when a proposal was carried that a public hall was necessary. In two days the sum of £413 and a quarter-acre section was secured—something of a record. It is hoped to raise another £3OU in the course of the next few days. A Native nurse, to take tjister Lewis-’ position is to bo appointed shortly. Until such time as she is appointed her work wili be carried on by the Hospital staff, and it is particularly requested that patients keep strictly to the hours mentioned iu the advertisement. The Arbitration Court refused applications for exemptions from the bonus reduction of the woollen mills employees, boot repairers, manufacturing chemists ’ employees, motor mechanics, piper mills employees, and brick, pottery and clay workers. A lady's bicycle is advertised for sale. A fore-carriage of a disc is advertised as lost. A lout-roomed house, etc., is advertised for sale for removal. An auction sale of bicycles will be held at the Otaki mart on (Saturday at 12.30.