HUTT AND PETONE NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 932, 27 September 1910, Page 6

HUTT AND PETONE NEWS.

■ (From'. Our Special Correspondent.) < : The ■ monthly concert: of .the ■ Hutt Nolicense League was lield in the 'Victoria Sti , e.et ; ■Key,' H. J.\ Seamer occupied the chair, and there . was a largo attendance.- .The speaker : for the evening : was Mr.' Malr; colm; - SI.P. for' Clutha;, who .explained in the.. progress - of ; Clutha' .undernolicense, . and. challenged denial of this progress. Musical items-Hwere , given :by. Misses D. JfEiven and' Blakeley, Mrs: A. ' E.': Wright, Mrs. L. Burton,'- and ; M6ssrs. Miller, A. E. Wright, Hanis, and'Dela--himtz.;'-.--.Jte\Jl.u-.M'lnni«-,; accompaniments. An interesting exhibition of ■ dumbbell drill was ,'given. by a party, of . local ladies. . • - A fire occurred '■ at,, the' premises occupied -by Mrl;Williams,-baker, and confectioner, Hutt, ? and owned: by Mr. C. 'Pole,. at ,'an Vearly '; hour'.'on.' Monday/ morning. The fire- originated., in- the-storeroom"over the bakery, . and : but for the' prompt: at-' tention of the brigade it would have been much . more : serious than it : actually proved; 'An accurate estimate of the damage : cannot be given at present; ;biitfit is. thought to. be considerable. • ; ' .

: Sir Alexander' Henderson, stated; at the half-yearly meeting of the Great Central ilailway .'Company . that umproved: ;'teleWhcn: a vessel js on her. trial .trip,. she runs four times J oyer a measured mile, twice, with and : lwice :against'. the/tide. Her average speed is thus arrived at! Grocers in : Eiigland :are dissatisfied with the presenij/ prices \of .'.bacon, and will .probably raise ' them during-..th0.. next few weeks (:|ays an English paper). At present the price is -2d. a.lb.'niore. than twelve months ago, • and - 4d..more ; than in '■ tho.yeai; before that,' and l !, as tho supply.'.is'steadily diminishing,-,'it ; is possible that- bacon may shortly- cost Is. 6d. -per 1b... Tho shrinkage in - supply is attributed mainly .to the:evergrowing demand ■..■in '■America.- rcducuig the amount available for export.

Eight cottages,; .built .ou tho bungalow principlo by the Slioeburyness Council specially for old-age pensioners, have been■ opened. ■ Tlio rent: of each' is only, three shillings"!'' week, : and eight more cottages are to be erected.: