HASTINGS NOTES.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 624, 29 September 1909, Page 4

HASTINGS NOTES.

(Br TolccraDb.—.Special Oarresnnnrlent l i , r . „• 'T- Hastings, .September 28. Mr. Georgo_Laitd,""managing dirpctor, of the Leather Rubbor Company,; left by this nioniliig s f°r . Melboiinie, via- Wellington. Mr. ,Land expects to • bo away, about:; six months, most of 'which will be spent St?'tho ..leather.:.rubber. works, in Melbourne. ' , ,'- rhp- montWy meoting of- tho'Schooi/'Committce ;.was:held-last night, Mr. G. F. Roach in the chair, . lho headmaster's rbport showed tho number on the. roll to bo 77-1, and the average attendance 709. ; The headmaster': also presented-a strtement on-'tho school baths in relAtlon to tho firo last Saturday, .and pointed out ■ that, tho,. present..was a. favourable, time tor . forming:-, a roadway, for tho fire oncino from Karamu Road to '.tho baths.., The engino damagwl the tennis court and "adjoining grounds through this ..deficiency. After dis? qussion, .it was suggcsM that- as the proposed r ttovboneftt-of the town that tho oxpenso should be borne by the Fire Bonnl 1 ■S^®5^»aS5S^UE«Ssisting of ItessTS. Clapham' and. Hart • was appointed to meet Sir William 'Riiccpn 'irL j Messrs.- Whittington and Tanne? to d c question of ; procuring apparatus and forming a technical association for Hastings. , 1