PROVINCIAL CENTRES.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1494, 17 July 1912, Page 2

PROVINCIAL CENTRES.

iFram Our Special Correspondents.) $ OTAKI. At: Saturday's meeting of tlio Horowheuiia (,'ounly Council, the engineer, in reporting on file state of tlie ronds at To JI ciio, considered that. llie.v would require mora metal than the estimates provided for, whilo tho lower end.of the Wo'ikaune Ueieli Road would'have to t>3 attended to at once. The .Main Road near lirnwn's flaxiuill and the cutting at Jlwlficld's also needed urgent attention. From tho Otaki River to the To Uhro railway station' the roads were good, but all the district roads at To Horo'would require metal. Tho Gorge and Mangaono Roads we.ro in good order, and (he Otaki Roads wero all good. At Jlanakiui, howevtiy inehilling would have to he done. Arbor Day passed off (jiiietly here on Saturday, tho only function .being at the hospital, where the Mayor and Mayoress of Wellington and others planted trees. The weather was fine, and the visitors enjoyed tho outing. They were entertained at afternoon tea prior to leaving. A remarkably thick fog almost completely enveloped tho town and district about four o'clock on Saturday afternoon. The death occurred' vc.-lfrday at the Olaki Hospital of Mrs.' Johns, of Manakiiu. Deceased was generally respected. She leaves three young children. A lad named Campion was admitted to the hospital on Monday suffering from a Indict wound, a pellet entering his foot while he was toying with a miniaturo rifle. : A man named Silvester was arrested, here on Monday night on a charge of failing to provide lnaintainarUefor his child. .The .warrant was issued from Christchurch. Mr. I'red. Hall, after a tour of Australia, has returned to Otaki, pleased with his trip.