PROVINCIAL CENTRES

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1311, 14 December 1911, Page 8

PROVINCIAL CENTRES

(from Our Kpcda! Correspondents • —« FEILDING. ■ Mr. E. P. Sinclair, of Ihe Agricultural Department, is at'present relieving Jin \Y. Dibble us rabbit" nucl noxious weed." inspector iii this district. Ite states that of all the .districts which he has'.visited (luring t.lio past few months, Peilding looks the most prosperous. Most, other places are still showing the effects of Ihe drought of last summer. ..I'roin this the Keilding district hus evidently unite recovered. ' ' A meeting was held al Cheltenham 011 Tuesday evening lo discuss the advisability of endeavouring to induce the Postal Department to erect a post office. Therewas a fair attendance, and -Mr. Bruce occupied the chair. Ue explained that lie had approached some of the post ■office officials.,and from what they had said lie believed that the Government would favourably consider the matter. A resident that Sir Joseph Ward should bo interviewed, Jiut 'another' remarked that Sir Joseph Yvard might not be.Post-master-General after Thursday. After further discussion the matter was left with 1 Messrs. Bruce, Hare, and Stretton, who are to get a petition signed, and. after interviewing Mr. Guthrie, to call another..meeting at a later date. ' OTAKI, A meeting of members of the Church of England ■ was held on : Tuesday, the object . being to further the proposed gymkhana,' but, as the attendance. was somewhat poor, little business was done. It was' decided to set up an executive committee .to meet other members , of the committee on. Monday night. • •