LOCAL AND GENERAL

Thames Star, Volume LII, Issue 13940, 19 July 1919, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

! The burgeaaes of Thiaanes are requested to observe Monday a a public holiday A ' dance will be /held in the Matar toki Hall on Tueday evening. Cars' wall leave Mary St. at 7.15 p.m., returning 1 after the dance. I The Farmers' Auctioneering Cot have received .instructions firom Mr A. A. Deane, Turuai, who has sold hda farm, fo seill on July 26 at wooin 1 the whole of his lftv© and dead attackI ■ | The Borough- Council ha® decided to aisk tiaixi-oiwiniersi ito b& paiitiouiiar m thiQ o.bservain)ciei of secitioni 25 of itih© by-laws requiriiingi a plaite on 1 each, oar, withi the licensing numiber and also (tin© naumber 1 of passengeirs tihian .cam be: aamried. The .sifereetts Coanimittee of the Couiuxil has beeiu aeiked to< malt© inquiries regardling: tihe iprovis•iani of taxi-meters. I Thei N.Z. Laap; and Meroan(tile Agency Co. Ltd., in conjunction! with, thedir ordinary sale, will hold a .speiaiai d'aiiry sale afc Ngaibeat, H'auraki Plains, on Auguist 1, and will yard. Uipwairds of 200' dairy cow® and herifeirfi. Early inortdnciatiiioini of enjtmieia of diaary and filtiore sftock-as incited w:;fh i Auckland office, or M^r Lens Ro-uu- , tree, local laigfenib, Ngaitea:. , ! The thliird of <t<h© eeirit^, of- diatnces bedaig hejd in aid of fthet lletiumeti SoMtots' Clmb was held i n 9t/. G^orgie'a Hal ke* evening, aa^d wais ' very Jjatrgiely attended. The music was ■played' by, Wilkimis' orcheatria,, and) eactmata ooOitributied by Dr. La^aiki and Mr J. Buduan/. Messrs A- Danby and G-. Buchiani were Mw.C. A cwmmliWteo of ladies .ajnd returned men unidier Mr s Floiwier ' served a dainjty supipei' and airet to be congfaituikited oa tih» success of the dance. The decorated! oars, which concluded: the procession this morning, were very well got up with .patriot- . '«> colours, and' were owned or driYep by Messm. F. Adamson, 'MM*, Beebl©, .Teaalale, Elliott Luoas Watson, Bax, Smith, P- ar■fcr. (Haantiliton), Home (Morrins■ifty, qryejr, ' ifoCormick, Meetnurst s dhar-a-banc, wi-th u>pcountry children, ihe Tlxames Fisheries waggon,, and several <mr« with upMsountry children, and White's *raadeii-s, Molloy iand Phillips. Th© kiddies, who have been build- , nog bonifii-es for tihe !paeifc week on and , around me Unia, in oirder to' add to ; th*. zest of tbia Peace celebrat,ibnW were gaealtily diaappodfated. to find on rwmg early tihi® morning, to add' tlhe last touch** #0, tiheir week's labour th^*heir.''bc^^ m^> ,««mlW>tff.rtJ^T«pd l « Mai the firteo were Ighted at 9.30 and the ■^■■OBBja*; :i*Btt!. smouldering at % V 'c vewtPl'e!vtih 1 a l tv only Mien®. wdd W,g^ty,.of ! iihem4i 5 de^p^bfe deed. The kiddlies were hJ^ Br ou €'11 Eleofcrical Engmeer had something further to say aboS earning down, into t/ e m .^P^K read at iasi ■^gtt.B meeung. This ini-.-T**: *f last week we had- a, good deaJ of fc-ouble wiflb the t^ J£ o t^stone* getti^ in . with, the wate? and damaging the governor blades. i: had occasion to run the Diesel all day laab Thursday, a» I H ad to get several of the blades etraiHTtened. (I' might state here that lam havuigj hajlif-a-dbflseirn. p^ Ma;d^ made, as- ?fa f hare no,' spares, and rcay .need them at any Time if troubled with metal). She County Engineer had the: reservoir emptied 1 on. Sunday lasb, and; ;iSe gratings examined, .and' the main cleaned out. so I am hoping we '„ shall 1 not. be troubled; with metal in' future.