PROVINCIAL CENTRES.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 991, 5 December 1910, Page 2

PROVINCIAL CENTRES.

IProm Oct Baccial OorrosDondentlJ "\- FEATHERSTON. The Fcatherston Town' Board is in , tho unique position of having collected the_ wholo. of its rates, and 'to have achieved this result thus early in the. financial year speaks 'highly of tho soundness of this district and. town, and of tho energy of its'town clerk (Mr. C. . J. Kent Johnston). ,• , ' .v, The vital statistics for Feathcrston " for tho month ended November 30.are: 'Births, 1; deaths, 2; marriages, 1;' . Tho rainfall for the month was 2.61 inches. TLere were nine days with rain,- and tho maximum fall was on November 15, when .84 points vcje re< ' corded. OTAKI. The rainfall for Otaki for the .montfi of November was 2.6 inches, as against , 2.17 inches last November. Tho past month's heaviest fall was on November r 14, when .82 inches fell, while in all ; ; rain fell on twelve days. ; . The Wereroa Brass Band will, play | selections at the gymkhana and fancy. 1 fair, to he held here on December 14, in aid of the vicarage fund. ■ Among the local prize-winners at • * the Levin School were:—Cut blooms: Messrs. Nees, Westaway, Cockrill, Miss - . Pauline' Brown, and Mr. Penn; decoral tions: Mesdames T. Bevaiv and Bur- . Nell, Misses Ivy Nees, and Pauline r Brown ; fruit and vegetables: Mrs: and' r Miss Nees, and -Messrs. Byron Brown . and C. Cotter; domestic: Mrs. E. • Bevan; needlework: Mrs; F. W. Bellsj