PROVINCIAL CENTRES

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1500, 24 July 1912, Page 6

PROVINCIAL CENTRES

(From Our Special Correspondents.) 4 FEILDING. Following his recovery from an operation for appendicitis the Eev. Jas. Jl'Kcnzie, of Shannon (lato of Apiti), is now staying with friends at'Awahuri. He is gradually regaining strength. Mr. H. Tolloy, local manager for Messrs. Hodder and Tolley, has agreed to jtidgo tho seed and grain at the Hawke's Bay spring show, to be held in October. Mr. Norman Bartholomew, who has been for some twelve months on the staff of the Local branch of the Bank of NewSouth Wales, has been transferred to Hawera. Ho-was secretary of the Feilding Football Clnb.Miss Violet Irwin left yesterday for Wellington, to become a probationer on the hospital staff there. OTAKI. A meeting was held in the Druids' Hall on Monday evening for tho purpose of deciding what steps should be taken to raise funds for.tree-planting on tho local domain: After consuler'ablo discussion it was decided '. to • organise a concert, tho proceeds to. go towards purchasing trees.' Owing to ii. rough .sea, two local fishermen were swamped off the Otaki beach yesterday, and only'with difficulty swam to the shore. 'The load of fish was lost.

CARTERTON. The Waii;nrapa Rugby Union now has a credit balance of 8?. Id. There was a small overdraft when the season began. A football match is being .arranged between followersvof Rugby at Parkvale and Waihakeke. Tho losing team will entertain the visitors. A remarkable escape from a fatal accident is reported from Gladstone during the height of the recent Hood. Mr. .T. K. Strang, juu., of Glonside, and an employee named Ctrant, were engaged inspecting the property and attending to the welfare of stock. During their operations they came across fivo sheep buried by a slip of muddy substance. They proceeded to release tlie sheep, and had just completed tlie work and removed the a'trimals to safer surroundings, when, with a loud roar, a hugs clump of earth slipped down, completely obliterating the spot upon which thoy had jusWvacatcd. TIIO fourth annual report of the directorate of tho Greytown Fruitgrowing Company congratulates the shareholders upon the continued successful operations of the company. Tlie trees in tho first fifty acres are all in excellent condition, and a considerable numlrer of cases of apples sold this year. It is confidently expected that a handsome return of fruit will be obtained tho coming season. The shelter trees aro also making rapid, growth, and tho cross belts are also growing well. 111 addition to tho fifty acres, 7 tho directors have planted the sixty acres, In'oken up last year, and have pleasure in reporting that the trees are all growing well. Only one call was made'during the year, and it is tho present intention to make two this year, this having been* rendered necessa'v by tlio manager's , cottage having Ix'en built. The retiring directors aro Mossis. Murray and Loasby, who retire by eOh'xion of time, and aro eligible for re-elec-tion. The retiring auditors a r o Mi-ssis. Dndding and Olifant, who are eligible for re-election.