HUTT AND PETONE NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 708, 6 January 1910, Page 3

HUTT AND PETONE NEWS.

(From Our Special Reporter)

/•/•For! the past, fprir.yearsitheHutt-Valley Horticultural: Society has held its "annual the Hutt.o A ; departure from-the. old:orderiwill 1 be iinade th'is'year"; , - the: society : haying<decided ; to i.open . at"'the .Drill:Hall,';Petbne, next- Saturday- after-, "noon,; at'3;.o'clock. >A large ; ; .number;of; :eritries : are:'expebted.'.-Orie special feature: .will.': be-,'the.sweets pea ..exhibit ..of Trevethick, ,whb, at,a..members'-.show:re-:ceritly; 'pre-duced : over "100. varieties. :.iThe judging will.be ; done by:Mr.:Waugh(lJlte of .f.the ;■■!' -;\ Horticultural: .- Society).: Among 'the many ': trophies" 'donated,-- are' -the National Sweet Pea;, Society's; gold' uiedal'and Mr. TrevethickVgold medal. '■ The; Hope of.iPetone:Lodge, 1.0.GX, held its' usual' >veekly session in the Ran-, '■furlyHalMast evening;;Bro. T;To.wnsend,, L.D.; presided over a good attendance of 'members. :: '•" Mri; L; TTpton was initiated into •' the -Ordei'.' i Three new. members ■■ are to come up next;week; ;Bro. F.,J..,Cranip--ton was'admitted'on-card.., Ihe commit r . ■:'tee .;rep'orted.' I bn'"the'/,arrangcmerits:.for -a", basket/party .'for ...Friday ", night, arid friends are to be' invited.-. : An oratorical, contest ;was held," Sister ;Fuller,_ Bros; De r ; lahunty.G. :Kyle, Heron; .Martin,: Joicns-, end, and.. Robertson ;. competing.;; ;Bro. Kyle;.was''declared: the winner. v :;;-.',. i ".