PROVINCIAL CENTRES.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 787, 9 April 1910, Page 13

PROVINCIAL CENTRES.

(From Our Special OorresnondentiJ ■ • « _• FEILDINC. Councillor. Goodbehere reported to tho meeting of tho council that satisfactory arrangements had been made with Mr. E. J. Hiddiford regarding the pipe lino carrying tho water through his property and tho purchase from the council of a strip of land at the end of the Kawakawa Road. The nowly-formed Feilding and District Employers' Association lias elected the following officers:—President, >Mr. Fred. Pirani; vice-president, Mr. Tolley; secretary, Mr. W. M'Kenzie; treasurer, Mr. J. O'Meara; executive, Messrs. J. Darragh, R. \v. Neal, E Whitehead, A. H. Sutton, G. Bartholomow, G. Harford, G. Spencer, J. W. Bramwoll, and I?.. Cobbe, with power to add to their number. j

A special meeting of the Feilding Borough Council is to be held on April 13 to consider applications for the position of town clerk. Impoundings a t the Feilding publio pound for the first quarter of the year were as follow.—January, 66 headFobruary, 44; March, 58; total, 168. ' During March there wore slaughtered at the borough abattoir 78 cows (3 condemned), 57 heifers, 11 bullocks, 448 ewes (1 condemned), 37 wethers, 131 lambs, 30 pigs, and 4 calves. Tho fees for the month were £91 Is.

Arrangements have been completed for the commencement of the plumbing classes at the Feilding Technical School next Thursday.. Mr. Graham, tho plumbing instructor at the nui Technical School, is to bo in charge of the-work.

Councillor Williamson has resigned his councillorship on account of his projected trip to tht, Old Country. He leaves here next' Monday with Mrs. Williamson, who' was given a send-off yesterday afternoon by the ladies of the Presbyterian Church. -.'

'The general rate of the Orona County lor this year is to be the same as last, nineteen thirty-seconds of a penny in the £1 on the rateable value.

A special meeting,of the Kiwitea County Council will be held on Friday nest at 7 p.m. to consider tho estimates for the year and the striking of the rates. The ordinary meeting of the council will bo held next day at the usual hour.' :

_Mr. Ernest Short will take-leave of his fellow-councillors on Friday night at a dinner in Kimbolton. :

Tho total rate:s collected in tbeFeild-' ing Borough for tho year amounted to £6962 155..7 d. Tho outstanding rates at March 31, 1909, amounted to £144 Bs. 6d. The whole of this has been collected during the year, with the exception of tho sum of. £(j 16s. 9d. Judgment, however, has been obtained for this latter amount.

The ordinary meeting of Oroua County Council was held yesterday. Presont: Councillors G. C; Wheeler (chairman), W. G. Pearce, H. Burrell, J. H. Vincent, and W. Reid. Tho Hon. It. M'Kenzio wrote stating that the £25,000 voted . last session for road maintenance is to bo spent by Government -officers in the back-blocks. . The Publio Works Department advised that tho sum of'£2ss lis. lOd. had been authorised for expenditure on Lower Gorge Bridgo. The contract for gravelling Makino Road from Stanway to Onepuhi has been completed. The contract for gravelling Wilson's Lino and Waituna Road is proceeding satisfactorily. '.

, Speaking at the meeting of tho newlyformed branch of tho School Commit-, tee's Assiciation,. the president (Mr. Hugh M'lntyro, M.A.) said ho hoped to get the. sympathy of tho ■ whole, ot' the committees of this district in the movement to establish an adequate site and buildings for a high school in Feilding.

FEATHERSTON. .An old identity.'. of Fenthersten, James Swift, died at the' residence of Mrs. Walker, on Thursday evening; Deceased ; who was about 80 years of age, arrived in;Ncw Zealaud 1 by tho ship Strathnava,, 36 years ago.'

. Tho.Featherston Operatic Society will commence regular weekly practicos on I'-Monday evening, with a view of giving an entertainment to provide funds for the purchase of a new piano for the Town Hall. GREYTOWN. His Worship the Mayor, Mr. D. P. Loasby, was in the chair at a"'publio meeting held in the Council Chambers on Thursday evening last, to set up a committee to assist Messrs. Mark 'Max-ton-and T. M. Drumniond in forming the tourists' track to Mount Hector from Woodside, via Monnt Reeves and the Cone. ; After a lot of discussion, tho following were appointed a committee, with power to add to their number:—Messrs. Nicol, Stevens, M'Kenzie, Canton, Smith, and H. Catt, of Carterton; H. Evans, A. Nicol, and J. W, Kershaw, : of Maryborough; C. J. Kent-Johnston, A. J, Toogood, and A. H. Hayes, o£ Feathorston; T. M. Drumniond, M. Maxton, D. P. Loasby, ■A. L. AVebster, iH. Humphries, W. Workman, H. Udy, W. I. Shanley, AV. Armstrong, W. H. Day, and L. J. Stratford, of Groytown. For initiating the proposal, and the work done by them, .a hearty vote of thanks was unanimously passed to Messrs. Drumniond and Maxton. The next meeting is. to be called by ,tho chairman and secretary. , '

At a meeting of the Executive Committee of the South Wairarapa Boy Scouts, tho following members wore present:—Rev. Pago, Dr. Palmer, Messrs. J. T. -M. Hornsby (in the chair), M. Maxton, E. 0.- Turner, A. J. Toogood, and Chief Scoutmaster Shanley, Scoutmasters Bagley, Salmon, and King, and Assistant Scoutmaster Fairbrother. The minutes of.the previous meeting wero read and confirmed. Correspondence received from Chief Scout Major Cossgrovo was read. Mr. W. Barton, of Featherston, was nominated for the position of District, Cqmmandor. ' ■

•' CARTERTON. The 'junior singles tournament of the local Bowling Club resulted in an easy victory for Pink, who defeated Neilseu -13-9. . • An appropriation of £300 by sale was hold by the AVairarapa Terminating Building Society on Thursday evening, and was purchased by Mr. Barry Yel7erton, of Fcatherston, for £43. Tho Rev. W. J. Elliott and family ■have arrived at To Aroha, on their way to Whangarei. Mrs. Elliott found the journey vory trying, but the rest will probably restore her. The local fire brigade has decided to hold a handicap one man event for tho trophy given by Messrs. Veitch and Allan,