HUTT AND PETONE NEWS. (From Our Special Corresspondent.)

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1723, 14 April 1913, Page 2

HUTT AND PETONE NEWS. (From Our Special Corresspondent.)

i. ; « i • HUTT VALLEY COUNCILLORS. 1 Tho following candidates will go to the 1 poll for the Petohe' Counoil at the election on April 30:—Councillors Wakeham, 1 Brockelbank, Cox, List, and Trueinan, 1 and Messrs. H. Findlay, R. Jones, W. Forsyth, T. Newland, A. Anderson, and H. R, Wright. Although it has been rumoured that there will be a contest for tho no one has been nominated yet. At Lower Hutt Mr. Bunny (Mayor) will probably bo returned unopposed. ' Candidates who have definitely decided to go to tlio poll for itlio Hutt Council are Messrs. Ball, Kompthorne, Hobbs, Hodgins, Knight' (sitting councillors), and Messrs. H. Fielder, W. Meldrum, W. Phypers, A. Parsonage. Messrs. Clenaoni Roots, Knight, and Diwsori, who have been, approached to stand, have not yet given/a definite reply. OLD SETTLERS' ASSOCIATION. An Old Settlers' Association is to bo formed in Petone, and with this end in view a social evening will be held in tho local Orange Hall on Friday evening, and if possible continued through 'the winter. , HUTT METHODIST CIRCUIT. At the quarterly meeting' of the Hutt Methodist Circuit, over which the Rov. Barton Ginger presided, tWe balancesheet showed a credit of .£l2 • lis. Bd. After allowing for a previous debit of J!3 Os. lid., the sum of ,£8 10s. was voted to {the Hutt trustees and the remainder carried forward to next quarter. The total number of scholars on the Sunday-school roll was reported as 257. It was reported that two legacies had been received, ono from "the. estate of the late E. G. Riddiford (on account of the salo of the Hutt Drill Hall), amounting to ,£65, and the other from the estate of tho lato Henry Sanson, Wellington, amounting to £25. It was decided that a portion of tho legacies bo utilised on imorovoments to the church and property. Mr. Ginger was granted a - month's holiday, owing to ill-health.