TOKOMARU NOTES.

Shannon News, 9 April 1925, Page 2

TOKOMARU NOTES.

(From Our Owu Correspondent.). on Saturday; Just a social and dance v was held in 'the Tokomam Hall, ui aid oil:', the Tokomai'u Football Club, 'mere was not a, very large attendance, although the. cluh snowed a piuiit on die evening of £2. Songs were rendered by Misses Ke>Ui» and Peach and Misses Hakaraia and Winterburn. Dancing w.as kept up until iirio hour of twelve. Mx H. Parr presided at.the piano and an extra was played by Miss Smurthway. The evening was a very enjoyable one and the Club will hold a sjunila.r function again very shortly. A retuni football match will he played on Saturday, April 18, Tokoniaru v.. shannon, at Tokomaru. Residents were awakened at an early hour on Sunday morning last when it was discovered that fire had (broken out in the local bakehouse. The fire had a good hold when it was discovered and nothing could he done to save the building or its contents, everything being completely demoty ished. How the fire occurred is a mystery. The building was insured in the Sun Insurance Co. and it as not yet known whether there was an insurance on the contents as the business had Just recently changed (hands. Messrs Hyde and. Wilkinson intend to start thoir picture' show 1 here again on Saturday, April 18. The electric lights were turned on here on Saturday last, there bqhig six lights distributed about the streets of the town.