OTAKI ITEMS.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1279, 7 November 1911, Page 3

OTAKI ITEMS.

During Saturday evening and Sunday a beneficial rain fell throughout tho district, but, unfortunately, it was accompanied by wind, which did damage to fruit trees and in places levelled potato crops. Councillor Freeman, who has been a member of the Horowhenua County Council for many years, and chairman for two terms, sat for the last time in that position on Saturday last. Before vacating his office he thanked the various councillors and the stall for courtesy shown him, and for their help, all of which tended to make his office a pleasure. He expressed a desire that the council would continue to work in unison, and that the new members would honourably fill the positions of tho retiring councillors. After tho remaining councillors had spoken, all adjourned, at tho invitation of the retiring chairman, to luncheon, where a pleasant hour was spent. Regret was expressed that Councillors Tompsitt and M'Lcavey had declined to bo again nominated for positions on the council.

For stealing .£'lo from the safe of tho Bristol Branch of tho Salvation Army, a vouth was sentenced to six months under tho Borstal system. Schoolboy strikers at West Hartlepool looted the storage room of an hotel and took away bottles of stout and whisky and boxes of cigars. They also stopped an errand boy in the street and helped themselves freely from a bag of apples he was carrying. Some of the boys were arrested.