PROVINCIAL NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 537, 18 June 1909, Page 4

PROVINCIAL NEWS.

(rilOU OUil 6PKCIAL COIItIttSrONOSSTS.)

. PALMEItSTON. On Saturday the Juno bogy goif competition will bo played for tho Plnnket Cup, and ako a.match against tho Pahiatua Club. About nine playors are expected to arrive from Miiatua, and tho local team will bo shortly selected. s A yonng man named Loslio Ellis was arrosted by Constable Ivcllv yesterday morning on a charge of using obscene language on the Linton railway station on May 25. ■ Tho information was laid by tho guard of a train which was passing at tho time. . 'Hie Mayor will hold a public meeting on Friday night for tho purpose of passing a resolution, to cleio the right-of-way behind tho present library building. 'When this step has been taken, and the Stipendiary Magistrate's consent has been obtained, the library section will bo increased in size by 15ft. on the south-eastern side, and by 10ft. on the northorn side.

Tbo resolution for the loan proposals in KtefißcctioJi i wrtii tho waterworks wili be coosidered at a public meeting to be bold on Jnly 5j after which polls will be taketi on each loan. Recognising the importance of school children being given every facility to attend the Wmtcr Show and local Industries Week, in order that they might participate ■in tho -issay competition and mako a gonoral inspection of Hie various 'displays, Mr. G. H. Bennett moved at Wednesday's meeting of the Avanganm; Education Board that the necessary holidays should bo given to such schools as -■ desired k them. After some discussion, it was unanimously decided to instruct the chiet inspector (Mr. G. Braik) te issue a circular to teaohers informing them that they will bo allowed the necessary holidays to attend too show and the ind-usirios display, providing that they accompany the children and explain the virions features to them. It was felt that it would bo inadvisable to allow the children to go alone, and find their way about, the town by themselves. The meeting of the Malrerua Drainage Board on- Tuesday lapsed on account of lw> llltvosa of soma of its_ members. Pressing , business was, however, informally discussed. The position of tho board's ratepayers in respect to the county loan for £4000 for tho msw Birokloy-Koptttsroa loan was fully discussed,' and_ the. txistw>s_present strongly ; protested against the unfairness of the beard's lands boing included in tbo special rating district for tho > following reasons That the Makorna drxinag* is not the proposed work ; that, hitherto, all county loans, except, main road loans, have been borrowed on local special districts, which benefit by the expenditure of the money i further, that tho Makerua drain- 1 age district, , although roadless, has had to pay county rates on the basis of a valuation of £250,000. ,In addition to this, tho drainttgo rates have .to be met, so that the board cannot see how its ratepayers can afford to be included in this local road loan, or in 'any other of tho same d«scripti'cm that.might follow if this loan is successfully raised.

masterton;

The. statement, in bankruptcy, of Henry Georgo Carpenter formerly of Masterton, is as follows Liabilities: Unsecured dreditors, £184 Is. , 6c1.; 'to aerarod creditors, £100; estimated valuo of securities, £1925; other assets,-£825; ostimated surplus, £640 18s.' 6d. Tho unsecured creditors are; Messrs,, J,-D- Cruickshankiand Co.', £3 ISs. Mvv J; ■ Carpenter, £2'4s. 6d. ; "W; H: Cole, £1 3s. 7d.; — Connell, £4 10s.; Pickering Bros., £5 lis. 10d.; C. E, Daniell, £121 ISs. 10d.; Beala and'l'arton, £45—a1l of Masterton, .There are two/secured creditors, viz., W. G. Wwa (Gisborno), ,£700; estimated value ,of .security, £1500; ; and M, Wilton (Opaki), £400;. estimated valuo of security,. £425. - , , ! ~ the, Ifeptinicii.'School heldiyC'Sterday evbniagl-lo conmder th>'' , tfttendaMSb l|r at the' : Slio6l nduring the first term, which was reported to be about TO per cent, of the roll number. Tho managers . considered - the report-; highly safe factory, .and' special reference wis made to the progress and the equipment of the recently started wopl. class. The secretary's salary was.: raised from £45 to £60 per annum.

I During its first year, which, closed at the end of last month, the Masterton branch of tho S.P;O.A. (according to its printed report) brought'about the destruction of 13 old and docrepit horses and 6 other animals besides, dealing in different ways with' 59 qthor : cases.' . Efforts; are. .being made to minimise the alleged ill-treatment of stock in ? tho.-. Masterton, .saleyariis. ■■■', Tho branch has- a credit" balance' of £llj but tho committee oonsidcrs that tho funds at its dis-; pcsal aro insufficient to cope with the amonnt of cruelty that is being practised. Pending the appointment of a paid inspector, who will bo able to devoto all; his time to. the work, Mr. W. Davidson, the borough rangor, has acted in that capacity. Mr. .F. Seed, the 'Wellington inspector, who'assisted to start tho Masterton branch, speaking to a Domwion reporter, expressed high appreciation of the voluntary services of Mr. Davidson. . .■>'■■■ '

' ■ FEILDING.

Tho tender of Mr. W. Banks, of Kimholton, has boon accepted for tho erection of the cool- room, and tho extension to the factory, at Cheltenham, for the Co-operative Dairy Company. For-the, woolclassing classes, just commenced in this district by the Feilding Technical School, 141 pupils have already been enrolled in tho different oentres, as follow:—Waituna, 40; Cheltenham, 17; Poteuigiria, 15; Ashlrurst, 12; Feilding, 13 Halcombo, 12: Kimbolton, .17; Apiti, 16. it is expected that the number of pupils fer the Feildipg class ■ will have, doubled by Friday, .when the class opens, and, in most of tho. other centros, increases are. looked for. Mr, Cahill, of Hawke's Bay, is instructor. ,

OA HTRUTON

In the hockey, matches played at Carterton yosterday Carterton A Juniors beat B by 10 goals to 1. Masterton Ramhiera team (ladies) played a drawn game with Dalefield —no seoro.

WOODVILLE. The Hawke's Bay Education Board are asking tho commissioners for a grant to build a mow school on the Woodlands' Road. It is stated that the condition of tho present building is unsatisfactory from a sanitary point of view.

lie social, hold'this week by members of thoracal Roman Catholic congregation, was largely " attended by all classes of tlie community. During tho-course of the evening, I'ather M'Kenna, on behalf of members of the congregation j presented ex-Constable Brosnahan with an office cabinet, and Miss Brosnahan with a silver-mounted brush. Aftor considering the .question the suppliers to the Dairy Union have decided to manufacture butter, as 'against cheese.

OTAKI

. Hares are plentiful in, tho Manakau district just noly, and are reported to bo doing considerable damage to crops and young trees. Door, also, havo been proving ratlior destructive to mangold and,turnip crops. Mr. E. Williams, of this district) is waving shortly on a trip to England. Tho Manakau junior football fifteen has decided to withdraw from , tho championship fixtures,. being unable to raiso a team. At tho last meeting of tho Horowhenua Couiity Council,, it was decided to erect a bin at Otalci for the nui oh-discussed Straker wagorf. At the same meeting a motion bv Councillor Venn, seoonded by Councillor Stephenson, "Teat this, council protests against tho decisions arrived at in'our S.M Courts with'regard to tho furious driving of motor-cars on public roads,".was lost by "one vote. ' "

• Considerable interest was evinced in tho championship hookey fixtures. on Wednesday nfternoon, when tho Rahui and Otaki teams met. The former playod a hard, dashing gamo, but the town team had many slices of:hard luck, and lost after a stubborn gaino by four Koal« to throo. Tho Otaki Is&es

disposed of tbo Te Horo team by two goals —scored by Missos M'Cleland and Kilmistor —to nil. Indignation is being expressed bore over swiouneonient ma d® by Mr, Byron Brown at Ohnstcliurcb concerning 'tbo drtmireDnosa in otain. It is a recognised fact, and Mr. Brown as a J.P. has admitted it, that sinco tho advent •of Constable Sathorloy some months ago, the'amount of drunkenness has neon greatly on tlio doerenso. It is also a fact that the, township for tho past few months hhfc been more clean' and wholesomo than for many years past, while the genera) tone shows ranch improvement. '

LEVIN.

The Levin Ladies' Heckoy Club were on« m a match on Wednesday with tlx - tedMs from Ohau, at Levin, Tbo visitors won By 2 goals to nil. In the men's condition, ljevin Rovers and Lovin tried conclusions, when barm won a closciy-coiitested game by 1 £«al te ml. During the progress of the garee, J. Welsh, of the Rovers, was bit by tw» ball on tho sido of tbo right eye, a nastv wound resulting. After the ladW match, too t\ra tosns took tea together in Mrs. Wiltons Tea Roams, Oxford Street, when a pleasant ssci&l hoar, was spent, tho Lovin ladws acting as hostesses.- . Honwhoww i Lodjjo, U.A.0.D., idd a social m the Brunts Hall on Wednesday evening, . a "Wkis' Night/' Drnw Stes Zl gan and W. H. Mielian. Bro. Bntterfield cava ri£St, att T ® r °" i Motm a ™ Hn solo, Glaetto a ban jo solo, and Bro. Reiwtsan « SmJ f R " G , ardcnw (Mayor, of. Lenn) mado a few remarks during the evening, eulogising the,work of friendly, societies ; in general, and urging all mem to enrol themselves m oiw of the aaay s<fcietioa. SubsoynSUpper7a? Tv ™> and a danco took place, the music being supplied by Bro. J, Kearaley. Bro. G. CMortl acted as M.C., . as secretary exercised a ments su^arvlslon OV6r general arrango-

SHANNON.

;A l aSSS's'^ b S,S special gating disthct for the mating the Koputam-Bockloy Road, for th« of (1) - Tl,at tho^^y^ m H IWSIV<> bcaofit flSva from tlvo proposed work; (2) that all foam. Ilnty ■ <wd . loaM > ' H , b 7. expsndrtnro of the money: (3) ■ that this district, although roadW \ rate n i P? 7 t®. tl>o County daoncj ' rates on an ammd valuation of £250,'095."

featherstgn.

At a meeting of the btowards of the Wai. S f5i Cmg c) ?i were reS Bd ), f ™ ffl JT" soty persons for the pwi- ; £&» tfe i' ih at ' 1 j 2 »st ■ has now been reducod to week, tha ) final selection will bo made. three, and at the, mooting adjourned to noxt