ANNIVERSARY DAY AT FEILDING.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 413, 23 January 1909, Page 13

ANNIVERSARY DAY AT FEILDING.

Anniversary 'Day was perfectas far as weather; went, and was .observed as .'a closo holiday. By- the early morning train, five rinks of bowlers made a trip. to \Vanganui, where the annual contest -is being played. Several members of the Oroua Tennis Olub went to Marton to participate in tho. tennis tournament. The Manchester Rifles were well 1 represented at the : annual meeting :of •the Kiwitea Rifle Association. The programme offered by the Waiata Sports Club drew a fair sprinkling of competitors and spectators from. Feilding, and a. good day's 1 sport and amusement was provided on . Mr. vJ. D. Balmer's grounds. The friendly; societies' annual pionio and sports gathering was heldon the bdnks of the Oroua River on Dr. Peter's grounds. A largo number of people patronised. it. "In addition to those attractions four Sunday school picnics'were held. The death is announced of Mrs., Wm. M'Dougall, of "Waitapii," Waituna West, •after an. illness of a day or two. The deceased lady was the oldest - daughter of the l late, Mr.. Edwin Worsfold, of Folding, and spent her school days there. On her marriage with Mr. M'Dougall, she went to re. side at Waituna West. She leaves a family of six children, tbo youngest of whom is eighteen months old. Messrs.. Harry , and Frank Worsfold, .of Feilding, are brothers. Lecturing on "The 'Marriage of . First Cousins";before the.Eugenics Education Society, Miss Etliel Elderton said that some, striking, results of marriages between cousins wero shown by statistics.-relating 'to deaf mutes).. . Of the offspring of . marriages .between cousins, cnb of, whom is a deaf mute,' 30 per cent, aro.deaf mutes, compared with only 8 per cent, when tho parents, one or both 1 being deaf mutes, aro not rolated; From researches made into tho parentage of the insane, tho lecturer believed, that between 12. per cent._ and 18 per cent, of the total eases of. insanity aro the rosult of cousin marriages. Messrs. J. H. Bothuno and Co. announce, in our auotion columns an important property sale for Tuesday • next, January 26, at their rooms, at 8 p.m., when they aro submitting the now subdivision known as Plimuierton Extension. This is Situated about half a mile from tho Plimmerton Railway Station. The tonus of sale aro set forth in tho advertisement; and ara exceptionally liberal, thus bringing tho sections within the reach of all; Lithograph plans may be hart on application, and will bo posted to any address.