TUAKAU.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 3, Issue 227, 4 September 1914, Page 3

TUAKAU.

TENNIS CLUB ART UNION. Results of the draw of above art union, 18 oil paintings, was as follows First, No. 39, Mr McLaren ; second, 110, H. Craig; third, 6(i, Mr Mungall; fourth, 122, Mr H. CarroH; fifth, .'3O, Mi's Haivey; sixth, 125, Master Ivan Free; seventh, 253, Mr Madill; eighth, 266, Mr Fitzgerald; ninth, 24(5, MiFree ; tenth, 12J, T. Steen ; eleventh, 259, Miss M. Taylor; twelfth, 340, W. G. Graham; thirteenth, 261, Mrs Cheesman; fourteenth, 121, Mr McKalovie; fifteenth, 26, N. Cook; sixteenth, 254, C. Penny (Pukckohe); seventeenth, 111, Mr Free; eighteenth, 360, Eileen O'Connor. The draw was conducted by Messrs A. H. Tapper, H. Craig and Dynes Fulton, the actual tickets being drawn out by Miss Minnie Moore and Miss Berridge, of Pukekohe. Mr A. Madill and Mr H. B. Free have donated a painting each to be sold for the benefit of the Patriotic Fund. From the Club secretary we gather that the Art Union was not a financial success, there being an actual deficit. Little interest in ticket-selling was taken after the outbreak of war, but tho situation was par tly saved by soveial tennis members taking a number of the tickets. POPULAR CONCEPT. In spite of weather which could hardly be called favourable a largo gathering assembled at the Tuakau hall on Wednesday evening. Mr Dynes Fulton occupied the chair acd the local band rendered excellent music both before tho concert and during the interval. The programme was excellent and varied, a number of artists from Auckland making their first appearance on a Tuakau conceit platform. Proceedings opened with the Marseillaise and concluded with the National Anthem, Rule Britannia and hearty cheers. A few Union Jacks arranged about the stage gave j a patriotic air to the proceedings. | The programme opened with a j pianoforte duet by the Misses j Willene and Berridge. Miss Barr j followed with " Lanri of Hope and | Glory.'' Mr Geo. Smith, baritone, < caught the popular fancy, his effort j bringing an imperative reca'l. Other items followed Miss Stubbs, dramatic recital ; duet, "Maying," j Misses Barr and Best; *ong, Mr Hall, " The Trumpoter," which was j perhaps the best effort of tho j evening; solo, Miss Best. A! character sketch from Dickens by j Mr Gribblo received universal approval, while Mr O'Malley, from the ; Frivolity Enteitainers, Pukekoho, ! (i >uld be in no doubt regarding the: popularity of his comic song. Miss! Bagnall, always a favourite with j Tuakau audiences, rendered the "Three Fishers" with great ex-; pression. Part I. of programme was concluded by a solo by Miss Hall. Tho second part of the programme ! was somewhat curtailed owing to the ; lateness of the hour. The chairman extended to visiting artists and others assisting the heartiest thanks of tho committee for their kindly assistance. Returns are not complete, but financially the concert was in every wav a success OLD RAILWAY LINE.

The movement in the ilii cction of having the old railway line between Backhand andTunkau converted into u road lias advanced another step. A public meeting of ratepayers interested wi l ' be held in the hall on Wednesday night, when the whole question will be gone into. The chairman of the I'iarklin Couity Council is to be prosent.