WAITARA.

Taranaki Daily News, 23 September 1921, Page 6

WAITARA.

SOLDIERS’ AND CIVILIANS’ CLUB.

(From Our Own Correspondent.)

The innovation of popularising the Soldiers’ and Civilians’ Club by having a special evening of interest one night a week was introduced on Monday evening by a debate on the question, “Is Marriage a Failure?” The Rev. Gavin occupied the chair, and the leaders were Mr. Sttuthwell in the affirmative and Mr. C. Tate in the negative. Other speakers on the question were Messrs. J. R. Bennett. L. H. Sampson, Pleasants, H. Brabant, A. Rowe and Barnard. Mr. Southwell pictured the happiness of the married state, and contrasted the comfort of a home with the loneliness and dreariness of a bachelor’s life. Mr. fate, on the other side, claimed that as marriage was described in the dictionary as a contract it could not be expected to be a success. A vote taken was in favor of the contention that marriage was a success.

MUSIC EXAMINATIONS. The following is the result of the theoretical examination held in the Convent School: Junior Division.—Aline Wells, 97 (honors); Hazel Johnstone, 94 (honors). Preparatory. —Grace Hoskin, 89 (honors) ; Vera Hicks, 85 (honors); Mona Lash, 81 (honors); Keitha Stimpson, 61. GENERAL. The canning works of Messrs. T. Borthwick and Sons started ope. ations this morning. The same firm intend to start killing pigs in about a fortnight’s time. Providing a suitable agreement can be come to between the Freezers’ Employees’ Federation and the companies, the season for killing stock for export should be an early one.

Another improvement to the business centre of the town has been effected by Mr. J. R. Bennett, boot importer. He is to be congratulated, on his taste for the alteration of his shop front and style of windows, to say nothing of the improvement to the interior of his shop. Mr. A. Hayward, who has been guard on the local “buster” for a period .of nine years, has been transferred to Waipuku. This means a rise to Mr. Hayward. Apart from receiving a set of military hair brushes from his comrades of the local Fire Brigade, the townspeople congregated at the Kaipeke Tea Rooms on Tuesday night, and gave Guard Hayward a splendid send-off, the presentation taking the form of a travelling bag for himself and a salad bowl for his wife. PERSONAL. The funeral of the late Mr. S. Wyllie, who died on Saturday last, took place the local cemetery on Monday last. A' large cortege followed, including school children and old scholars of the late headmaster of the Waitara School. Messrs. F. Spurdie, McLaggan and Geddes, of the Inglewood Bowling Club, were present.

Mr. W. Bent, who has been a patient in the New Plymouth Hospital through an accident on the wharf, returned to his home on Saturday evening last. Mr. McDougall, engineer, of Messrs. Borthwick and Sons’ staff, has returned from a health-recruiting trip spent in Dannevi rke.