LOCAL AND GENERAL

Thames Star, Volume LII, Issue 13937, 16 July 1919, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

■ ■ ■ ' i A bookmaker was fined <£50 a'fc Waverley for betting with 'boys. 1 The Thames Valley Dairy Go. has donated! 251bs butter towards the j Peace Celebrations. i T!he local Refpataiaition Committee is paying; £1500 ouit' this week to various aippEicanftis for assistance. „We regret to report, the deaitJi ot Mrs W. Batnie, aiti the Thames H-os- ' /ptal to-day aged 47 years- „ . ! The "Star" will not be puiblieh,ed on Monday. Advertisers are re--1 quested to make their arrangements 1 ajccordingly. The Farmers' Auct. Co. win sell jat their yards, Mercury Bay, %at [11.30 a.m., on, Tuesday, 2<70 head 1 of mixed cattle. j Messirs E- F. Adams and J. Row© j haive been elecited tlie representiattiveti ' of paremta of scholairis on. tihe Thiaones S H'igib Scihooi Board. The ereoutive of the Peace Day j Celebrations cordially iavitea aHi : returned soldiers to dinner at the I Miners' Union Hall at 9 p.m. on [ Saturday. j Mr. J. Purtell, organiser, will ad- ' dress members of the Thames Labour Party alt the Mackay Street Hall at 8 p.m. to-morrow. A full attendance -is requested. I Ml- iadiiies iwilim'g 1 kn> assisfti witJi tihe puibliio iliuaicilieion) and tea rooms on ■ Saturday are asked to, nueeti alti thej Centinal HaJl at 3 p.m. to-morrow to ' make final Qinr'aing'emeuits. | The funeral of tJhe late Mr Henry : Ciianley will leianrei S^b. Frainciis' I Ohuiroh, 'Willoughby St., afc 1 p.m. i ifo-miotr'rioiw for Shartland Cemeltery. Friends afre requesifced to accept the inttimaftdani. '» » Our 1 Auckland •ooriieaponden't. foiwards .the latest? aha,re quotations an Mlowsi: Sate: Fanners' Aucfciionieering) £5 10s, Wilson's Cement 16g lOd. Buyers: Koirmaitiai eefg l^d, Old H'a.urakd 4|d, Ri'snng Sun Is 10d, Talismam; 7g 7d, Wadhi £2 is, Junctiioirn 12s lOd 1. ' , ' The funei"al 'of the-Me Mr M. Whelarn 1 will leave his IWe reaideinc©, Upper Sealey St.., at 2.30 p.m. tomorrow- for -Shoa-tilanid C'eaneiteiry, ciallj ingl a* St.. Francis' Ghurdh exu route. " Tlhe membeais of Itihe TliHtmes Old i Boys' _ Associiartiion • are requested to ■ aittend" tihe funieirai, ' . ' A very*, effeatdve airgumenit! «ga.iiißt. [ buying Germain' goods is alb present! L .oft. exhibition, in Messrs Gea. Cullen [ and Co's windavv.,; Tlie pdctor© there | shown, is $ie work of the Brkiiisih En;ipire Uniion and is a pofwerful arg'amentb' for;;pQitriotio buying. ■ I ..■.'. :l All members of A Company, 6th. Haurakii ißegiment, 20th. Compamy r Senior Cadets, and 9th Xsompany High School Cadets, are ordered to parade at 10 a.m. at the Driill Hall x on Saturday for the procession, and at 10.30 a.m. and 2 ,p.m. on Sunday for church parade. t Mr. W. ■■■' Poititertoin), tihe suocessiful 'ttenderer' in oomecttdoaii witih tihe ereo- . tiom of (tihe rmvr Nuirisieisi' • Hioimes! for s the Thiamte-si Hospital,' is now engiaejed 1 'in. the work 1 ol piushinig back tihe buildj.ingi.aib psresen* usied by tihe nuirsing staff, im ofrder to make 1 tfoiomi foir 1 the " cew building). - Lieut. R; S. Judson, V.C., o£ 7 Auckland, who is retunndnig by the , Marama to-morrow is to be tender_'ed a public reception. The matter * is being taken in hand by Mr. A.' s J. Einltrioan,, Deputy-Ma.yor, but " the details, of the programme will not be arranged umtil Lieut. Judson arrives and can be consulted. 1 Tlbe recoirdsi of liquibr dea.lit withi in ■ the Wadhi aojO'-licensei dislttricib show a steady droip in tiuea quanitity coniaumed, bint nia mia/tienial obamg;e in +110 indivd'duial consufmipittton,', the reduction s in quanitlity »• being 1 acoo-uinted foir by B tihe doareased popwkitioin. On the t. ortihetr ihaaiid there has beemi a steady 1 itniOT'eaise. djn. tibe comsfumipitdoni of wine diuring thia pcuslti three or four yeatr&- _' The radn "whiioh had fallen, lightly 3 foir two; dlays, oaime down in real ear 1 nsati laaij ndgiht amd kept on fairly l . sibeadily. Earaika Greek was „ soon run;----y. niing baoik higih, while at 9 ip.mi. the p atrea beibweeni Cocihraine and Albea*tSitreets was floioded, tihe water coimxng, ft-oau the hills, more quickly tihan el the dMns, aould carry iib away. Sotu© i debris was brought down, but. by tihiis - inoa-niing the water had g** away anid ) the Borough staff soon, removed the - ruibbishj. This 'miorning! Kairaka. Creek c was i^tdil rUinming* very hligh, akihoiugh : 'it hiad, giooie down aoaisddei-a.bly in the ' migihit.