OTAKI NOTES.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1707, 26 March 1913, Page 7

OTAKI NOTES.

The Easier : holidays: pastel .off pnielly, there-being no'lotal function to amiss interest.' The wciilheis was pood. Gcod Friday being a perf(\it day, while Saturday and Sunday'were fine, bill dull. Snow fell on iho ranges yearly vu Mondav morning, and consequently'the air on the low lands was keen. , The day,, otherwise, was line.

The golf season opened yesjerduv, and this meant that the lenins courts wersi deserted. Bowling was fairly brisk, but iho hockey season owned quietly;.. ; In pursuance of medical examination at the State'school.' a weighing machiuo has been placed at (ho local school. : Owing to an engine breaking down north' of Olaki, tile New.llymouth exiiress and: u relief mail were coupled •together and dispatched from liero on Saturday evening. ••■■■/ A special service was held in iho Maori. Church oil Monday, when the I!cv. Mr. Bluthwayt i>roached to J'.uropeaiis and. Natives." A' Odmlmiiiioii 1 service followed. Sirs, ilui'lejvofiJlimakuu, lias left on a holiday visit to Jlofu-liaV . Horo Kiiriui|i, won, ;the final of tho' men's singles'--n't' the -Manakau tennis courts during the, holidays, While Mrs. Burnell won llui Tn phy ifor-tho ladies'; .competition! ' : The annual general meeting of the To Horo Hockey Club was held <111 Monday night. The report and balance-sheet, which' wcro adopted, stated that'the club had had a successful season. Twelve new members wcro electcil, and the club hoped to be ablo to put a junior leanl in (110 field if a junior divis'on wns arranged., Tho following ofiiccis wore elected:—Pat-'-roil, Mr.. Hymn Brov.-n; president, Mr. H. Windley; . vice-presidents, Mc«<rs. H. Boauchamp, '.T. Faitl.', and P. K. Buchanan; captain.' Mr 1,1. . Small; -vicecaptain. Mr. I).' Collier; secretarv and treasurer, Mr. 0. ,1. Spiers; .selection committee, Messrs. Siimll aiul'l: 1 . Spiers: gates to Ilorowhenua Association, Messrs. 11. Taylor and It. Small.

Tlic Board of Trado ltas just inspected and approved the now London and North. Western Railway track 'between■•Harrow ancl Watford. This is the secoii(l link in the company's scheme to make tho. out-, lying residential . districts of Watford, ; Harrow, and l'inncr still more iicccssiblo ' from London, .Tho.'schcmo- is costing X 5,000,000, of which half has already been spent. ■ ' ■ ■ . • A Bill empowering' tho Home Ofiioo to ■ sot up a standard of safety for flannelette and other fabrics, and penalising traders who sell fabrics as "safe" which'do< hot;* comply with that standard, Waii introduced' 1 into the House of Commons recently; by Mr.-Theodore Taylor, and read a "first time.