BUTT AND PETONE NEWS. (From Our Special Correspondent.)

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1959, 16 January 1914, Page 11

BUTT AND PETONE NEWS. (From Our Special Correspondent.)

. A letter was received yesterday by tiro Mayor of Petone (Mr; J. \V. M'fiwanj from Sir William Lever (written on board t : ho a.s.- Jlnlambangra) expressin.i thanks at tko courtesy extended by xiKv council during Sir William's' visit to Potohe, and also hoping that, in building a soap and candle iactor.v, aiiotiier improvement would bo added to, tho town, Tho letter «mclu<l<xl with good wishes for the prosperity of IV lone, Wellington, and Now Zealand. ■ -On Wednesday evening tho Petone Junior Club lu-ld "its. ferthipjlitly evenhv; meeting on tho Keereation U round, tj-.y remit of tko sports being as tollows:—jMOyds... handicap—Uosney (I'J yds;, 1; jowett (lUyds.), 2; E. Ryun (20vds.), 3. Time, 2'Jsee. Long jump— li. jJcnt (2ft,), lOl't. Oiin., 1; j-T. iiynn (ltt. Oin.), lSft; IOJk., 2;. ii. Jowett IBit. yin.j 8. • . Thoro was a largo audionco nt the Pet-one Salvation Ann.y JJarrncks last evening, when Brigadier Carmichacl inetalled Stan'-Captain Wallace, us jDivi« sioiliil Secretary for tho Weilitsgton Province. Adjutant and Mrs. Hultquist li'cro also introduced as tho n«w oihcer3 of tho i'etojio corps. During tho evening coles ,ivore rendered by the "\\ eiltngton D.I.P. secretary, and StaifCaptain Wallace. Mfs. Carmichacl Sjjoko a word of welooiuo and t!io leading local officers also addressed the gathering. The nowl.v-appointcd officers also delivered addresses, ■'■ The monthly shot of tie Hntt Volley Gun Club was held at Toita on Wednteday, when t«'.q events s 21 and 15 clay .birds, \roro decided, tlie trophies shot for being thoso . presontod hy Messrs. Gadsby and A. Scott. The former was won outright by S. Scott, 15 yards, with 14 breaks, and tho latter by J.:Brassell,.l2 yards, with 12 breaks.