HASTINGS.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1168, 1 July 1911, Page 3

HASTINGS.

The Hastings Borough Council met on Ihursday night,, and decided to appoint Mr. AY. J. Cook (at present borough engineer at Petone) as town clerk "aud en- ' gincer. There were fifteen applicants. Mr. Cook assumes duly here in a month's lime. Mr. Colliuge; the present town clerk in Hastings, has accepted tho position of assistant town clerk. The arrangement now made is in accordance with tho views of Mr. Collinge, who, in a letter to tho council, stated that failing health and defectivo hearing would make his retirement from the chief work of tho council a necessity in the near future. Eight designs for tho drinking fountain (o bo erected in Cornwall Park as a Coronation Memorial weno received, and that of Mr. V. li. Larcombe, draughtsman and assistant engineer to the Hastings Borough Council, was approved. Sixty-five excursionists left Hastings yesterday by the upccial I rain for Palniorston, (o hear tho Sheffield Choir. .Mr. Massey, Leader of tho Opposition, party, will deliver a political address in: tho Princess Theatre on Monday night ])r. Coward, conductor of the Sheffield Choir, has bean'so pleased with tho playing of Miss Ava Symons, who is one of tho Hastings violinists accompanying theSheffield Choir orchestra during its Now Zealand tour, that he has promoted her from tho second violinist (for which she was engaged) to the ranks of the first violinists. The Hon. T. Mackenzie, Minister for Lands, was iu Hastings on Thursday night, discussing with a deputation from the Hawke's Bay Fruit Growers' Associa- • tion mailers of importance to tho fruit-' growing industry.