PROVINCIAL CENTRES.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 878, 26 July 1910, Page 4

PROVINCIAL CENTRES.

(Prom Oar Special Correspondents.) {,

FEIL.DINC. Tho- Apiti Dairy Company havo a credit. balanco of £600 on tlio year's working and intend paying » bonus of id. per lb. for butter-fat to suppliers. Tlio death of Mrs. Hugh- Bun-ell, wife of the ox-president of the Feilding A. and.P. Association., took place yesterday inoniins.

Many settlers in tho Boacoiißfield locality arc oxti'emely busy planting willows for and an object lesson may he seen jn tho beautiiul belt of willows below tho Beaconsfield Bridge in Mr. J. Corpo's property. These trees were planted about nine years ago.' Mr. T. Scott has also planted some at tho Upper Beaconsfield bridge during the last two seasons and they are making good progress The Kiwitca County Council propose spending about £20- at this same bridge this year in protection works. CREYTOWN. Mi'. Waldcn, our present telephone is being transferred to Kimbolton, and -Mr. Fisher, our present lettercarrier, -relieves Mr. Waldcn. Mr. H. Simmons is to take up Mr. Fisher's duties.as letter-carrier. ■ A son of Mr. W. Wall, of this town, accidentally cut an." artery of his foot on a bottle while playing football on the recreation ground last week! The injury was a serious one. CARTERTON. A meeting of the Carterton Football Club was held on Saturday evening, when the medals presented by Mr. W. M. Halley for the best back and forward respectively were allotted to A. C. Groubo and A. Desmond. Mr. Stringer's medal for tho most improved forward fell to A. P. Bond, and a medal from an anonymous donor for tho most improved player was awarded to G. Masson. An application for a grant of £5 from tho Benevolent Fund of tho local United Friendly Societies' Council has been received from one of tho lodges for a brother, in distress. A meeting to deal with the matter is to be held on Friday evening. . ' Large congregations continue to attend the United Church Mission, which is being held here, and which, closes on Wednesday evening.' A meeting foremen only was held on Sunday, afternoon, there being a good attendance. ■ A number of now books have lately been added to the. shelves of tho Carterton Public Library. The annual "social" and danco, organised by members of tlio local Roman Catholic congregation, is to bo hold about the end of--August.