PALMERSTON DAY BY DAY.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 581, 9 August 1909, Page 7

PALMERSTON DAY BY DAY.

A , SWIFT PIECE OP AUCTIONEERING, :., (By Telegraph-Special Correspondent,) '.'.' . '■■.:". * Pfllmorcton, August 8, ; •■At tho. annual meeting of the Manawatu Flying Club the, following ; officers <vcro elected:—Patron, Mr. l>. W. Strang ; ricepatrons, Messrs.' D. Buick, M;P., and J A NasJi: president, Mr.-'T.'H. Richards; vicepresidents,'Messrs. R.'Essex.' TV. Mundy. UN. OLiusen, A. E. Gerard (Cliristcliurck), \V;. Fncker (Auckland),C. Hayncs (Welling ton), T.Cliilda, A. N. ...Earraud, and H. Palmer. The report ..mentioned that tho 1008-00 season, just ended, provqd inost : sncoessful, some recQd -flying being put up, both in velocity ancT distance. Tho coming teason promises to show even better results. Last year, with the addition of several new members, tho (lying . was materially strengthened. ; ' ' ..;.' ■ .. ■.. . A record for quick selling was established by Mr. 0. H, Porritt . ai- Mr. .8.. R. Lancasters salq' of. cows en Wednesday. This auetionoor "sold oisty-four cows: in the. first sixty minutes, .-.-and- 269., liend in four and a half hourn. Tho cows were all sold singly, .ajul tho prices obtained were also'high' one 3;' , ,",J?ho . death''' is announeod 'of' Mrs. 'Whitfi'head* wffoof Ml 1 . Caleb'' Wliite.head, ■of Pair mersion,:after an illness.extending over somo months,, Tho late Mrs. Whitehead was very ; well-known in Palmersten, where, for many; rears, Mr,^Whitehead, , was in business in the Square. .-Later they .removed ' to Shannon, wliero Mr. ■'Whitehead took up farming pur-' fruits,- returning to. Pnlmei'ston' about'four years ago,' and residing in' , Street.'. Mrs.' AVhitahcad loaves a grown-up, family of three sons—Mr.'.Ernest Whitehead, of Feilding; Mr. Henry Whitehead, of Petono; and Mr. W. .AVJiitehead', r of Palniereton. ■•■■ No further trace of Messrs. Woodard and Bartlett^tho.missing Ashhurst.residents, is reported. . . ■ . ■ I'lio weather was very cold all this morning and, at midday, the heaviest : siiowstorm romombored for years past was experienced at' Ashhurst. ■"■'..'■■; "'■-.- ' ■ •