DISTRICT NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1926, 8 December 1913, Page 3

DISTRICT NEWS.

JOTTINGS FROM PROVINCIAL CENTRES. (From Our Special CorrroDomlents.) NAPIER. T. 1!. Jinx, ex-cliatnpioii oliil) swinger of tlio world, will, on Wednesday, aminicncc at attempt to again securo the championship, which is now hold by Dobnlle. liax has announced his intention oi swinging tho club for 144 hours. Tbo Hawke's liay aiul Coast touring service lias been inaugurated, and henceforth a regular ' service of motor-cars will run between Napier and Gisbomc. Local morehnnts have intimated that owing to tho strike they cannot execute mi}' further orders for coal. Firowood, however, is plentiful. Miss Cook, who resigned the position of teacher of tho Port Ahuriri School, has been presented with a silver teapot and toast-rack by the other teachers and Sunday School scholars, as a token of their esteem. Tho Hawko's Bav Antomobilo Association aro communicating with 9ther similaV bodies with a view to holding a conference to discuss tho question of regulating traffic through tho Manawntu Gorge, so as to minimise the danger to motorists.

Tho statement of affairs filed by Edmund Crow, bankrupt refreshment room propriotor, of Hastings, shows lia- ■ bilitica totalling £540. There aro no apparent assets. Tho unseoured_ creditors include tho following Wellington firms: —E. A. Jones," £180j Levin ( and Co., £100; K. Everson, £20; Staples and Co., £40; A. D. Kennedy and Co.; £40; Fitzgibbon and I'erry, £35. Mr. D. N. Thomas, of G'hristchureh, and Mr. Manson, of Napier, have been appointed to tho positions on the teaching staff of tho Napier Boys' High School. Tho To Awn Swimming and LiFeSaviug Club, which cani'e into existence ,nt the end of last season, and has its headquarters at Napier South, held a very successful gala on the I'utaekuri lliver on Saturday afternoon. PALMERSTON NORTH. Tlio Manawatu Amateur Athlotio Club • on Friday, at its annual meeting, received a letter from tlio Feilding Club promising cvory assistanco ii' tlio proposed sports meeting with tbo American athletes were arranged. The chairman, Mr. J. A. Nash, advocated a canvas of the town to raise tlio necessary £25 contribution to tho Now Zealand Council, and Messrs. Ixniisson, Manning, Oram, Nash, and Cooper vcre appointed a canvassing committee. Officers eleoted were: —Patron, Mr. J. A. Nash; president, Mr. H. It. Cooper; vice-pre-sidents, Messrs. Louisson, L. A. Abraham, J. F. Manning, F. D. Opie, M. H. Oram; handicapper, Mr. T. Stubbs; starter, Mr. J. F. Manning; auditor, Mr.. H. Cooke; treasurer, Mr. A. E. Kerslake; delegates to Now Zealand Council, Messrs. Kitto aiul Leslie; secretary, "Mr. K. Tait; assistant secretary, Mr; B. Stagpoole; committee, Messrs. Stubbs, Gray, J. H. Watt. St-agpcolo, D. Park,' Stalker, M'Clelland, Jacobs, Etrlintoii. The annual meeting of tho W.C.T.U. was held on Friday. The report stated that about 600 No-License had been obtained. Though not joining in tho Stead Memorial movement to erect women's hostels throughout the world, tho branch wn.s concentrating-its energies toward the erection of a hostel m Palmei'ston, possiblv next year. Officers elected were: —President, Mrs. Crabb ; vice-presidents, Mesdames Carter, Lny-b.-uirn, Whitehead, Dotill: secretaries, McsdaniesTlodder and J. J. Hills: treasurer, Mrs. C. N. - Clausen juvenile officer, ifrs. Carter: _ visiting official, Mrs. Laybourn ; special depart ments, - Mesdames Ritchie. Ifolbrook, Crabb, A. ii. Whitehead, Carter, Imrie. ' V/ANCANUI. Mr. W. J. Poison has been re-elected chairman of tlio Wanganni County Council. . The Rev. C. Harvey, curat© of Christ Church, Wanganni, for tho past twclvo months, leaves at the end of this month for Waipawa, where ho has been appointed vicar. At the Supremo Court on Sahirdav G. H. Graham, of Waverley, was admitted as a barrister, and Mr. T. B. Slipper, of Wanganui, a solicitor of tho Sunrenie Court. Tho Wanganni Comity Council declines to accede to the Waitotara County Council's offer to reopen the TJpokoligaro ferrv, the 'latter to operate it and share the 'loss, if any, 'with tho Wanganui County. The latter also refuses to allow tlio Waitotara Council tho uso of tbo plant, but offers to sell it, so if tlio ferry is reopened the AVaitotara ratepayers v.-ill probably have made, themselves solely responsible for it. as tJioso of Wanganui County have done for nearly fifty years. The Wanganui Harbour Board solicitors are now taking'the necessary steps for holding a poll for the harbour loan, but as the plans and valuation and the electors' rolls have to bo compiled, it is not likely that tho poll will bo taken for some little time. As soon as the loan is authorised the hoard will accent a tender for the new dredge. Tlio tenders have already been opened agd gone through. CARTERTON. It is understood that the metallic system will bo shortly installed into tiie telephono service in Carterton. Messrs. J. AV. Compton and G. Siovers (Clarovillc) and A. E. Booth (Carterton) were judges at tho Stratford show last week. A motor-cycle accident happened at the Admiral run to a. young man named Sutherland. Ho was riding a motorcycle, when his coat got caught in tho hack wheel of the machine, and he was thrown very heavily to tho ground, and for a timo was rendered semiuiiconseious. His bead was badly cut, which necessitated several stitches being put in the wound.