FEILDING ITEMS.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1780, 19 June 1913, Page 5

FEILDING ITEMS.

At tho adjourned mectilag of tho Orona Licensing Committee, held on Wednesday, Mr. Poynton, S.M., presiding, the postponed' application of a renewal of . tho liconso for tho Halcombe Hotel would only bo granted conditionally on a new hotel being erected, to bo ready for occupation in 1914. . I*, , ■ A ladies' skirt-eutting and Eliirt-niaKing class is tho latest feature at tho Teelmical School. Tlio veterinary science doss (instructor, Mr. J. E. Coekroft, M.R..C,V:.5.) commences on June 27, meeting immediately after Mr. Baylis's lecture. Masters Leo Charles and Albert Hodgson, pupils of the Convent School, Feilding, having passed at tho rcconfc Civil Sorvico examination, have now boon appointed to tho Publio Trust Department and the Education Department in Wellington respectively Mp _ an( j j[ r3i Guthrie, left yosterday for Wellington, whero they will resido until the end of tho session. Mr. Guthrie, who is Chief Whip of tho Government party, liaß a good deal of work to do at headquarters before tho House meets. . Very wintry weather still prevails in this district. Although tho rainfall has not been so heavy this last fortnight, all growth appears to bo at a standstill. Most; classes of stock nro looking protty well bo fnr, but arc oommoncing to rnnko percfptible inroads on tho winter fodder pfovided for them. Thero were not very many good crops of oats about the Beaconsiield district last season, but. ono fanner who has reoently had his staolts cut, realised three tons of excellent ennlT to the acre. ■