HUTT AND PETONE NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 709, 7 January 1910, Page 8

HUTT AND PETONE NEWS.

-•'■ ■■'.; (From : our ; ,'SpcciaiiEeDpr.ter.)^.'; .'/• : , : ;It, : is-'aMquh(^'th'at;i\Lr'.-'J.- l 'W. , .M < Ewan' will'; seek re-election". as v ! Mayor!-of.- ; Petone. in March.;V'Cbuncillor'.Sbuthgate,,_-.whp "has i'beeh;;approached .with -a' view,..to.: 'inducing bim.-to /contest-iiJie seat; has 'decided'.tb wait : :.another., i year.. .■.;;.■:.'.'; ';' Yestefday;';inbrnihg:';Mr.7R.. W.i'Skort; secretary - of. -the ■' Hutt - galley'. Trotting Club; forwarded-a cheque i'oiv.£lß:ss.; to tho v Wellington'r'Hospital;-'and a like': sum, to the Benevolent'.Trustees- of the Ohiro Home; - ; As previously reported,'the total : amount,'£36> 10s. 'was. 1 underpaid',. by ; the tot'alisritbr in one'; of the races on NewTear's Day. .;_' The :mistake- was' not,dis-. 'covered' in time Ho,; give,/,ticket-holders, the. benefit, ; 'so, vvitbjn' twenty-' minutes' ■'of tho 'error; being, found; put,/ the : stcw- ( ards- met and decided to pay 'the surplus' over to some charitable,- institution.- . : The Petone Salvation-Army/Band / coliected. : S2G■. 19s.' : 4d: : from 'carols:i at - tho ■Hutt and ; Potohb on Christmas and/New Year's. Days. ■'■'.'. ,•■■• ';■'/. - '■-:-. .The Hutt railway duplication-,;workers intend holding ai picnic and sports gatli-' ering' on the: Petone, : Recreation'- Ground on Saturday,' January.. 15. ...The Wellihgton.Pipe Band.will l)e in attendance, and a 'splendid programme of sporting events will be "contested! -:The .whole, of.'the.pro'ceeds will be devoted .to a benevolent fund, .which -has recently : been...iiiaugu-. rated, by : the duplication, workers.': > ; ;' '• At a meetingofthe.Peton'e'Oddfellbws'■', Lodge,, held, last 'night, ''the,' following officers were installed:—Bro. Brbckelbank, N.G.; Bro. Brown, V.G.; Bro. Wright, G.M.'-.- The resignation of Dr. Perryi.who is leaving the,.district, was accepted'with regret. -Tho secretary announced that the Wellington district annual meeting would be lield at'Petono on February; 21. '/.' .