HUTT AND PETONE NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 494, 29 April 1909, Page 2

HUTT AND PETONE NEWS.

(Fnosi pnn arnciAn' reporter.)- '■.'. Ropfesentativc* of Htiimai Hockey Club played ngainst a Wednesday team of-.•■•Po-tone Club yesterday afternoon, on tho Hccro-' ation. Ground. Tlio visitors won by fivo goals,to two;- : . v' •..•'• ,-■...';,,. ■•.-W ■ Lengthy discussion on the proposal to;engage a curate- took: place at tho 'Annual meeting of St. Augustine's parishioners at l'etono on Tuesday ovening. Tho llov.. J y , D. Russell (vicar),, in his annual ..report, stated that ho considered,the growth''dr.; the parish necessitated: an nssistnnt' curate, arid lie believed tho parish could iiawv, afford to provido one.-Mr. J. Lee..(retiring:, vicar'swarden) remarked .that if fifty or sixty of tho parishioners would bo.willing, as lie was, to donate £1 each, tho. curate ortuld be iii.' stalled- immediately.- It .was simply a. mat- ! tor of funds. ; Tha following committee was set up to canvass tho district for support:— Misses Koir, Foote, Tunny, and Johnson,' and Mossrß.-Slicll, HouseV-.Hill/ Lnney, Loo, and Baxter. ;-■'.' ~"■'.:-;'. :. ''.<-'/':-\; It was stated recently that Mr. D. Bourlto, contractor for;tho Hutt\ pipe and traffic, bridge, had decided not to land the timber required for, tho, bridge. (350.000 feet) at Potono Wharf; : on account -of its 'recent subsidoncc. However, if. has been' .(jointed out to him: that no further damage is;,likely to accrue if the cargo is properly, distributee on'tlio wharf, and most probably arrange monts will bo_ made to; discharge -the ;exi pecte'd Australian timbor at.tho, local, pier;