WOODVILLE ITEMS. «

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1793, 4 July 1913, Page 3

WOODVILLE ITEMS.

A special meeting of the Borough Council was held on Monday evening. The Advances Office wrote offering a further .£6OO on the drainage loan and it was agreed to accept the offer as a part, of tlio 10 per cent extension of the loan. Tlio. Mayor (Mr. James Grant) moved to give 'notice to strike a special rate, to cover the cost of a .£6OO loan, to complete the drainage, mid notice was accordingly given for a 4-15 d. rate. This would be sufficient to complete the surface drainage and other works, but he could not say it would be sufficient to meet the cost of land for the treatment works. The deatli occurred at an early hour on Wednesday morning of Mrs. Charles Nicholson, ofter a Jong and painful ill.ness at the age of 45. Mrs. Nicholson 'leaves a husband and daughter, as well as four brothers and two sisters (two of tlio brothers, John 'and James, living at present in Woodville). .. 1 Tlio proposed cheese, factory at Kumoroa, that' has so long' been discussed, is shortly to be an established fact. The creamery, at present owned by the Hawkc's Bay Dairy Co., is lo be bought out, and the cheese factory, which is <i co-operative' one,, is to bo erected there. It is intended to have the factory in working order by the coming spring. In these columns on Wednesday it was reported that a, Dannevirke housewife had inadvertently lit .the fire with n five-pound note. This iVeasily beaten by a Woodville housewife who, on Tuesday, lit tlio fire with a e.heoue for X2O.