Church Services.SUNDAY, JANUAKY 31st,

CHURCH OF ENGLANDWaiwera, 10 a.m.Whangaparaoa 2.30 p.m.Waiwera 7.30 p.m.

(Phone No.64.)

PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHiLeigh 11 a.m. Rev. RuprechtMatakaua, '.'.30 p.m. H.o. Key. RuprechtSt Columba's 7.30 p.m. Rev. Ruprecht

('Pkene No. 49.)

METHODIST CHURCHWarkworth, 7.30 p.m. Rev ParsonsWarkworth, 11 a m. Mr McEwanDome Valley, 11 a.m. Rev. ParsonsMullet Point 2.45p.m. Rev. ParsonsPacres' Claim,2.30 p.m. MrEvans

'Phone No. 46.;

TENNIS.The club matches were continued

last (Saturday in fine weather whenLeigh boat Kaipara Flats on thelatter's courts, Warkworth beat DomeValley at Dome Valley, and Matakanavisited Pakiii to be defeated by thelocal team

Owing to the entries for the chana-piouship tournament not being consi-dered sufh'cu'iit to make the tourna-ment d, finaiiuial success it has beendecided in po^pone same until thedate fixed tm the haudiowp tournamentthus enabling both championship andhandicap events to be played off to-gether.

The \\ hi k worth Club have arrangeda {ient\* si.- in-, handicap tournamentfor uitmbfcis of the Club who havenever won v trophy, to be played onFriday, 29;h inst., commencing at 9.30a.m., tlu p'ize being a gold medalpresented i>\ the president, Mr iSel.Jkloi'i^oii. iMi-mboii) wishing to com-pete should notify the secretary.

" Wariok is hoarse with Coughing."—lbid.There is nothing more aimoying than a per-

sistent summer cough or oold. Banish theseailments at once with Baxter'u Lung Preserver.A dose in timenips incipient throat or bronchialtroubles in the bud. A short course of "Bax-ter's speedily drivesout the .most chronic coughPleasant to take—rich, penetrative.Also invaluable 8* a building-up t»nic. Allchemists and stores stock '*Duxtor's." Gene-oub-sizedbottle 2s6d.

Inquiring Old Lady : "Ttll u«e, howdid you begiu to be aa aviator ?" "1ftailed at tue bottom and worked up."

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PUBLISHED F-VEKY WEDNESDAY

Wednesday, Jan. 27, 1926

LOCAL AND GENERAL.The Commissioner of Taxes draws

attention of taxpayers to the notifica-tion in today's issue that thedue date of payment of the Income-tax is on Monday, the Bth day of Feb-ruary, 1926. Additional tax willaccrue if the tax is not paid on orbefore Ist March, 1926. The demandsvrill bo posted from the office of theCommissioner of Taxes on or about31st January, 1926. Demands mustbe presented with all payments, and ifa demand has not been received theCommissioner should be communicatedwith.

Messrs Allen & Findlay, produceagents, Auckland, have received thefollowing advice from their Londonprincipals :—Butter — New Zealand,1725—1745. Market steady. Higherprices expected. Cheese—Coloured,104s to 106s; white, 101s to 102s.

Parents in Rodney who intend send-ing their children to the WarkworthHigh School will be pleased to knowthat the boardinghouse "Bivorina,"Pulharn road is now open to receivehigh school children (girls). . MrsMeiklejohu is well knowu and we haveevery confidence that this will be agreatasset to Warkworth. The houseis in a very healthy position, and hasevery convenience.

Have you paid those rates yet ? Ifnot paid by Saturday you will have todig up another 10 per cent. It willprobably be easier to pay them to-day.

We understand that the contract forthe conveyance of the school childrenfrom Dome Valley to the Wark worthschool has been been secured by MrThos. Eamsbottom. Without in anyway disparaging other tenderers wewill all agree that " Tommy " will bethe right man in the right place.

The Boys' Dance committee put ona 'long night' last night when theTown Hall was comfortably filled withdevotees of the Terpischorean art, amost enjoyable eyeniug being spent.These fortnightly dancesfill a felt wantin the community and the committeeare to be congratulated on the success-ful way in which they are carried out.

The Dome Valley annual picnic willbe held next Saturday.

The Helensville Show takes placenext Friday.

The Rodney County Council adver-tise various contracts by tender. No-tice is also given of electoral rolls forall Ridings having been deposited forinspection.

Mr B. Hamilton has a change ad-vertisement in which are enumeratedfour special lines for sale.

Mr T. H. Waldeu Whangateau,announces substantial reductions inprices of Dodge cars.

The mail and passenger bus to theFlats will leave Warkworth fromDext Monday at 8.45 a.m., instead of8.20 as at preseut.

REGATTA SOCIAL.Patrous and friends foregathered at

the Town Ball last Thursday andspent a happy and social evening tocelebrate the prize giving of the trophie? won at the recent regatta. MrJieg. Oollius, coinmodoie of the club,.presented the prizes to the successfulwinners and congratulated them all onthe spoitiug spirit in which,theraceshad been run. Dancing and .socialconserve tilled in the rest of a pleasantevening, despite theheavyrain outside

SHOW NOTES.Entries are beginning to come m,

but the secrptary says he has still

plenty of room in his books. Mockowners will pleas* note that late en-tries (that is after Thursday night, 4thFeb.) will be charged 50 per cent,

extra as latefee.

There will be K-en competitionbe-tween the Jerseyand Frieaian breedersas to which can make thebestshowing

Good stuff will be comingforward in

each breed.

We understand thata demonstrationon the Jersey will be given on Showday immediately after the grandparade by Mr W. T. Hall, the Jerseyjudge. Mr HalJ won outstandingsuccesses at the recent Auckland andWaikato Shows, so is well qualified todemonstrate all the Jersey points tolocal enthusiasts.

The Pulioi B«nd will come over instrength and enliven the proceedingswith some good music.

Paddoeking is available for stockfrom a distance. Mr Hall, Mr D. J.Carras, and Mr Verry (formerly Shoe-smith's) each have paddocks availablefor stock owners.

The fat beast for weight guessingwill be supplied by the WarkworthMeat Co., the sheep by Mr Stubbs,and the pig by Mr L. Petherick. MrWra. Purchase will be on the job Bel-ling tickets for these events.

Thanks to Mr Katavich, the tele-phone will again be available at Showgrounds on Friday and Saturday ofShow week. The number will be 60m.

CRICKET.

WHANGARE! V. RODNEY REP. MATCH.Cricket enthusiasts are looking for-

ward to seeing the rep. match betweenRodney and Whangaret next Friday(Anniversary Day), which will heplayed at Matakana. Tbis shouldprove to be one of the best-contestedgames ever played iD Rodney. TheWhaugarei players will arrive atMatakana on Thursday evening. Theyare bringing an exceptionally strongteam, and will do their utmost to scorea win from Rodney. Rodney, how-ever, have a strong team, and willprove hard nuts to crack.

OMAHA V. WHANGARIPO.Whangaripo, accompanied by seve-

ral ladies, journeyedto Whangateauto try conclussions with Omaha on Jan.16th. Although the weather wasthreatening very little rain fell. Thelocal team batted first and compiled286 runs, thechief scorers being E.Wyatt 104, P. Dunning 44, J. Wyatt38 and T. Gravatt 24. Bowling, W.Armour took 6 wickets for 119, L.Came 1 for 60, Woods 3 for 19.

Whangaripo went to the wickets at2 p.m., but had not time to finish theirinnings as stumps were drawn at 4o'clock, the score being 134 with 2wickets to fall.—Therefore a drawngame. Chief scorers—Keneaiy 55,W. Came 28, N. Yipond 20. Bowling—P. Dunning took 5 wickets for 51runs, J. Dunning 2 for 35, J. Wyatt 1for 17.

MAHURANGI V. WARKWORTH.A very enjoyable day was spent on

the Show grounds on Saturday, 16thin«t., when the much discussed gamebetween the above teams eventuatedand which resulted in a win by thelocal team by 5 wickets and six runs.,

Mahurangi won the tossand openedthe butting, their innings closing tor49 r^ns, i?. Bagar being topscorer with\%. U. Andrews and Duke sharedthe bowlinghonours with 5 fun 23 and5 for 20.

After the luncheon adjournment th«local side opened their innings andhad lost 3 wickets for nine runs whenour veterancricketer, T. Dejecourt andAussy Flannery became associated andproved a strong combination at thecritical moment. Both batsmen battedaggressively and held their wickets upuntil both were bowled by F. Sagar,

D«r«court contributing 20 and Flan-nery 12. Ken. Moore also batted welland carried his bat for 13, the totalfor the innings bting 78. fowling'analysis— W. Jackson 3 for 21, F.Lawrie 2 for 17, F. Sagar 4 for 18,N. Lawrie 1 for 10.

In their second innings Mahurangicompiled 97 runs, F. Lawiie playinga forceful innings for 40, the otherdouble figure batsmen being J. Lawrie14 and F. Jackson 15. The success-ful bowlers were Duke 2 for 19, Pres-cott 1 for 19, K. Moore 3 for 10, Dere-l for 1, and Culling 2 for 8.

Warkworth in their second inningslesponded with 75 for 5 wickets whenstumps wore drawn. The openingbatsmen Pres-;ott and Audruws, scored24 and 26 respectively, the not outmen being Flannerv 8 and (Julling 6.The successful bowlers were F. Lawrie3 for 20 and N. Lawrie 2 for 23.

RODNEY AGRICULTURALSOCIETY.

A meeting of the committee washeld on Saturday night to make finalarrangements for the Show, when aconsiderable amount of business wasput through.

Timber baring been procured it wasdecided to make a better class ofhurdle, so hung that they would swingwhen struck. Messrs Hathorell andPetherick agreed to see to erection ofsame.

The Puhoi Band are to be engagedfor the Show day, they having offeredto send ten members.

It was resolved to send complimen-tary tickets to all the judges who hadacted at the previous years Show.

A proposal was before the meetingthat all £1 members tickets shouldgive the privilege of either two lunchtickets (as at present) or at the option'of members two gate tickets. Theopinion of the meeting was evenlydivided and on a show of hands beingtaken the motion was lost by one vote.

Arrangements were made for pad-docking for stock from a distanceshould exhibitors require it.

It was agreed to charge 2s 6d foradmission to cwncert, reserved seats 3s.Mr J. 8. Ashton will attend to thebooking as usual.

The Warkvrorth Athletic SportsClub was granted the use of the Showground for sports on Easter Saturdayat the same charge us last year, £2 2s.

A committee of live was set up tomeet the various iSports bodies andarrange a tariff for use of grounds,etc.

BOWLING NOTES.Despite the heavy rain storm, on

Friday the green was in good orderfor play on Saturday afternoon, theporous nature of the soil allowing th©water to soak away.

Three full rinks, 24 players in all,were in operation during the afternoon.and several interesting gamesresultad.Principal interest centred in the matchfor Alfs Buttons between the holders,Brakenrig, Hoysted, Petterd, Mulhol-lurid (skip), and Koper, T. Ashton andWm. Wilson <skip). The gameproved very close; on. the 19th headWilson's team lay 20, Mulhollaud's 21.On the next head Wilson scored 2,putting him one, ahead, and on thelast head Wilson put up five, makingthe final score 27—21. Many congra-tulations were showered un the winnersas they had the buttons transfers I totheir coats. Hopewell'a team nowhave a challenge against Wilson's jthis will probably be played off thisweek.

Other games played on Saturdaywere as follows :—Flaunery, R. Civil,Ewart and Moore \skip) 26, playedDuke, Williams, Shirley and J. Ashton(skip) 13; Buchanan, It. Collins, J.Morrison and (*. T. Civil (skip) 22,played & Morrison, Paulger, Thorn-ley and Hopewell (skip) 13.

Two games of handicap/fcairs whichwere not finished on the previous Sat-urday wereconcluded, the scores beingHoysted and Hopewell 20 v. Evfartand Gh T. Civil 13; J. Morrison andR. H. Petterd 27, v. T. Williams andJ. Ashton 23.

Od Monday evening another matckwas played for the "rooster," G. ShiiPleybeating G. T. Civil (the holder) by19 to 13.

Wednesday, January 27, 19*6 "THE RODNEY AND ©TAMATEA TIMES.

The Northern.- Steamship Co.

/pßeais:*7J&;""" Ltd*Time-Table for January.

Time of Sailing, receiving and shipping Cargosubject to weatherand other circumstancespermitting.)

F&R OREWA, WAIWEUA, MAHURANGIAND WARKWORTH.

Lfnves Auckland: Leaves War worth :*Tues Gth, 10 a.m. Tues nth, 3 p.m.Weii (>t.h, 7 a.m. Wed 6th, Noon.Fn Sth, 8 a.m. Fri Sth, 1 p.m.Hon 11th, 10 a.in, Tues 12th, 5 a.m.Wed loth. Noon. Thurs 14th, 7 a.m.Fii loth. Noun. Fri loth, 6pm.Mod isth, '!.?.{> p.m. Tuns 19th, 10 a.m.Mod '.Oth, 7 :i.ni. Thurs 21st, Noon.Fri -2nd, 8 a.m. Fri 22nd. 1.80p.m.Mou 2;")tU, lli.«0 a.m. Mon 25th '1.30 p.m.Weu 27th, Noon. Thurs 28th, (> a.m.Thurs 2«th, 2 p.m. Thurs 28th, 7.30 p.m.

*For Waiwera only.8.8; Kawau

FOR KAWAU, LEIGH ANpMANGA WAI.

/ eaves Auckland : Leaves Mungawai :

Fri Bth, '6 p.m. Sat 9(h. 1.15p.m.Fri 15fch, 11 a.m. Sat 10th, 8 a.m.Fri 22nd, ."! p.m. Sit 2Hrd,2 p.m.Sat 3Uth, 11 a.m. Sun 31st, 7.30 a.m.FOB LITTLE AND BIG OMAHAKAVVAU ISLAND, TE Pt. AND TAKATU

Leaves Auckland : Leaves Omaha ;Mou 'Ith, 11 a.m,

Tues sth, T. Wharf, 11 a.m.Tues oth, Leigh 12.30 p.m.

Mon 11th, 9 a.m.Mon 11th, T. Wharf, 4.30 p.m.Tues 12th,Leigh GamTues 12th. Ti lJt., 8 a.m.

Mou 18th, 11 a.m.Tues 19th, T. Wharf, 10.3Q a.m.Tues 19th, Leigh Noou.

Mou'2oth, 10 a.m.Mou 2»th, T. Wharf, 5 p.m.Tues 2dth, Leigh, 6 30 a.m.

JS.S,Kuwau.

FOR MATAKANA AND MULLET POINT.L*avet Auckland : Leaves Matakana :

Tues sth, 4p.m. W«d 6th, 10 a.m.Tues 12th, 9.30 a.m. Tues 12th, 5 p.m.Tues 19th,4 p.m. Wed 20th, 10 a.m.Tues 26th, 9.30 a.m. Tues 26th, 5 p.m.