TOWN AND COUNTRY.

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 306, 10 December 1936, Page 4

TOWN AND COUNTRY.

BOXING AT ELTHAM. ( I J;n vis and flail drew in a proles- | sional boxing contest at Eltham last night, flail showed himself a brilliant boxer, but Jarvis did the leading'. | VAUDEVILLE AT STRATFORD. Billed as “The Brevities," an itinerant vaudeville company appeared ! at the Plaza 'lheaiie last night. Certain talent was apparent in the dancing turns. There weie also inimical and comedy items. STRATFORD W.C.T.U. ! Ofliccrs elected at the annual meeting o .1.110 Stratord W.C.T.U. were: i President, Mrs. Lilly; secretary, Mrs.) McCullum; treasurer, Miss Bilkey; I White Ribbon, Mrs. Davis; cradle I roll, Mrs. Major; hackblocks, Mrs. j Wendlebourn. STRATFORD BOROUGH WATER. Notice is given in this issue that the- Stratford Borough water will be cut off on Friday, 11th. instant, be- i tween the hours of 8 a.m. and 12 | noon, in Hamlet Street. North (from Regan Street to Pembroke Road). Olivia Street, Portia Street (from Regan Street. to Pembroke Road), i Seyton Street (from Hamlet Street 1 to Miranda Street).

—— Smar. holiday wear and Christmas' (lilts are advertised by Manoys Ltd. See their wonderful rance now on ' display. i

i Business As Usual In Spain. I An Auckland merchant, who was - under the impression that all that | interested Spain at the moment was i the civil war, received a shock last I week when a Barcelona firm wrote to him as if there was nothing ’.into ward in the present situation. Without any reference to Hie civil ' war or ‘its possible outcome, the Barcelona firm mentioned that it had extended its activities and that it would be glad to know if the Aucki land merchant would handle its pro- | ducts on the New Zealand 'niarkc,’... "I thought they were far too busy with other things to bother about the small volume of trade they could do | hero," the merchant commented. Book On African Travel. A valuable old book sent io the Auckland Metropolitan Relief Committee for relief camp use and saved from the destructor when the committee ceased operations some months ago, has been included in a new Afi .i .in sec Ton of the Johannesburg Public Library. It was a copy of the first volume of Lichtenstein’s “Travels in Southern Africa." published in 1812, and it was sent by Mr T. McNab, .Mayor of Mount. Eden, to the i dilor of the "Johannesburg Si nr" for presentation to the library. An acknowledgment of Hie gilt by the librarian, Mr R- F. Kennedy, says Hint there is a considerable demand for such books, on which an aiticle was also published in the "Johannesburg Star.”