HUTT AND PETONE NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 699, 27 December 1909, Page 4

HUTT AND PETONE NEWS.

~ , (From Onr Special Reporter.) — » 1 Somo' of. tho oldest residents in the HuttValley say that tho recent storm, was the worst that has' been experienced , \°n J nan . , ;,>' cars - Boatshods'havo boen ' if ted bodily, and one was moved ten or ' twelve feet. Many windowe of housoa facing the sea were smashed. In Jackson Street Messrs. Brown and Dclbridgo'« • large plnlc-glass window wns broken to mews wU-n tho galo uas at its height Mi. J. W M'Ewan (storekeeper) is also a suffejor owing to the breaking of liis largo front window. To tho other shops little damage was done, except through water beating in and spoiling goods.' At iiult and AJiceUnvn many troes wore mv rooted, and an olm that had betm stand-' ing on Kγ. W. J. Cudby'e property in Railway Avonuo for over 30 years, wae ' torn uf> ly tho roots. The Petono Tennis Club will bo represented in tho New Tear tournament at ~ Do Bay by the following r-Misses Ben--nett, Gartor, Curtis, Caverhill, Waltore,' Austin, and Messrs. Cornell, Parkinson, Duncan (2), Austin, Cw» tis, Andrews, and CaTorkill. It is understood that tho Hutt Biver < Board intends to cairy out Mr. LaingMeason's schemo for tho dredging of th« Hutt River. In all piobability somc- ■ thing bearing on the project will be announced at. .tho next meeting of the Board. ■, ' . i..' '<> o. ■■ j,.-. .. ; ': ■;.■■.. '■ .■ ■■ * - ~ , ■■,;■" -,v A, good■■ programme of events , is -an-'V i nouiiced for the Catholic picnic, which U , to bo held at, Father , Lane's ground t*i- ;,, '- day, if tho .weather is euitaWe. V. , -- , ■!. ';. >; :- "&UTO'NoijCENSE'-'lßAiQija-^*^ "^iMTßwa-ii,;vfoe-BTOisid«iaV. : "rf;V\the. Hutt, No-License -League, writes 'aa: ■ ■■;'• follows:—■'•,.■..":' ~-" .',■•. .■■..>,■ ~;;, ■' .i , ■ ;:•:; ';. "'.V , : " Si ?"T? 0, meeting ■■of; the. above. leaeu«';'> Wag i held, as reported, by: you-in your. m 15 A SUe; l? Ht rea "y'"aPPoned was-; ■: i u '■ A » m^ t , ln F « f ■ •tlie-. executive' was■ ■'"', hcldj attelided.Gy: six persons (increiisedv: to seven at p.m.), vfhose .individual", competency, to.net,, with two exceptions. '"'■:.'■' I Have challoiiged. Notwithstanding this' ■ phalleugo jwhichvhas been " ls.still undecided), these persons disoussea: -••■ and passed, certain "resolutions. I hav4 -" ■inquired from.the sebretaryotthe leagn*" 7 ' , whether he supplied tho report published ■ by you, and , ue disclaims responsibility.' ' ■ l i,V° e r e \? r ?i, conclude, that some irrespoe« ' - siblo individual, has' been at work." .-'' "