HUTT NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 182, 27 April 1908, Page 7

HUTT NEWS.

:■ The opening gamesiof tho.football season were playod'on Saturday last. The third-olass (Epuni Club) played tho Railway team, and scored a victory by 3 to nil. ; W. M'Kain scored a try.- .' The, election of the Hutt School Committee takes 'plaoo to-higlit, when an interesting contest is expectwl. ■ The skatiiig rink will probably be. opened' on Saturday, May;.2,..in the. Drill, Hall. To. celebrate the, retufn of the first seven Commissioners for, the . Upper Hutt Town Board, the liowly-formed Trentbaiii Club" gave.a baiiquet at Benzie's Hotel, Trehtham,; on-Saturday evening last., When the Club's Pitron .(Mr. T, M. AVilford, M.P.) rose to propose "The King," there was not a. vacant chair in the big dihing hall. On the ehdirhlan'a right sat the Mayor of Lower-Hutt (Mr. Ti ■Peterkiii) aiid Mr. F. W. MkoLeah, (Inspecting. Engiiicei ; of Railways for Nev Zealand); on his loft Councillor Fleming Ross (Lower Hutt), and Messrs. George and James Brown . (oldest 'residents), also' Councillor T.'Edwards (Hutt County); and Mr. J. Wilkins (president Silvbrstream Liberal Club). Before tho cliairm&n' sat three of, tho new Commissioners (Messrs., Alox. Martin, W. Keys, and F. Wilkie). "Town Board Cothmissbriers,". "Upper Hutt District," "Parliament of New Zealand," "Hutt Couilty Council," "Silverstream' Liberal Club," "Farmers and Old Residents," "Our Organiser,"-"Mine, Host," and "The Chairman,!' -comprised the toasts; tongs:were given by Messrs. Wilkins and Caissidy, arid "Auld Lang Syne" and the "National. Anthem" wero' iilso siilig. Mr. Chas. Cott-er, in responding to the \toast 'of "Hie Farrners," said "tho day had arrived iii Now Zealand when only the rich could farm their'lands, and then only as a hobby." (This, of course, oh account of the increase of Government taxation on farming lands during the past two years.)-