NIGHTCAPS.

Digger (Invercargill RSA), Issue 8, 7 May 1920, Page 15

NIGHTCAPS.

On Wednesday a football match was played between Winton and the local club. The result was a win for the visitors. There were a great number of people watching the game. Mr Bert Lee met with a slight accident to his knee, which prevented him from going to work for a fewr days. There was no special parade of returned men on Anzac Day, but the localclergymen preach&d appropriate sermonsi. The Rev. G. Crockett was unable to attend the Presbyterian service through illhealth. Mr T. H. McLean of Birchwood, occupied the pulpit, taking for his subject, "Freedom." The keynote of the service being that our men had fought for temporal freedom, which was worthy of our recognition, but how much more worthy was spiritual freedom. The door to which was opened when the great sacrifice was offered up at Calvary.

The Nightcaps Coal Company have circularised customers that the price of coal has advanced 2s 6d per ton on trucks and 3s at the tip head. The miners have been granted 50 per cent bonus, and the shift men 60 per cent. The miners state there is no reason for the rise in price to the public. Now Nightcaps, the "Digger" is interested in your local doings and wonders why the band was unable to get a meeting You know the band is a very necessary thing and fulfils a very important part in local affairs. In view of this it should receive your support. Our advice to the band is to start playing about l o'clock in the morning and you will he suro to be taken notice of. We note tne band is running quadrilles and are starting with a baJl. We wonder if anyone will turn up. The Otautau "Farmer," states that the Nightcaps Entertainment Society has been at lo-ggerheads with the local branch of the War Funds Association over the aroount collected by the former from their last entertainment. The amount is st-ated to be about £16. The War Funds Association has been asked to close its account, and it wants the money held by the Entertainment Society so as to wind up matters. The matter in dispute is the question of how the money is to be spent. The Entertainment Society maintains that tho War Funds Association can only use the money raised by them for the object for which it was raised, i.e., soldiers' medals. There are quite a number of returned men who received no medals, but r.eceived cheques of more than double the value of a medal, but the Entertainment Society has taken exception to this, and wil' not give up the proceeds of their last concert. On Friday evening the members of the branch of the War Funds Association asked the members of the lesser society to meet them, and see what could be dorie. Mr Jas. Grant, senr., was in the chair. A lively meeting was the result, both sides maintaining that they could manage their own affairs. One member of the Association wanted to put the matter' into the hands of a solicitor, and, after much talk and heated debate, the Entertainment Society were allowed a little time in which to think the matter over before the Association tak,es any legal steps to recover the amoimt due. Some time ago a deputation from this* concert party met the members of the War Funds Association over this very matter — medals versus cheques for returned men— and the matter was considered -settled, and that the moneys so raised could be used by the War Funds Association at their discretion, but the matter now seems to be in dispute again, t-he concert party denying that this conclusion had been come to. Nightcaps has no medical officer, but has its V.A.D. workers, who render good service in cases of srckness. The removal of one of these workers from the Flat is causing dissatisf fiction as the Morley Yillage or the Flat have to come to the township if they want assistance. There are now two V.A.D. 's resident in Nightcaps and the doctor visits once a week. Now Nightcaps where is your Medical As. -scciation, and what are they doing in not seeing that adeqnate provision is made for medical attention? — "Digger." The Nightcaps ranger apparently does not go to kirk. On Sun day and Anzac Day, at that, he muzzled 26 head of .cattle on the long paddock.