HUTT & PETONE NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1981, 11 February 1914, Page 3

HUTT & PETONE NEWS.

(From Our Stieqial Cerrcepsnfenl.) - A benefit pcrformanco was tendered ; last evening by the I'crono ••WarlsingMen's. Glut) to Mr.wKd'Mrs,' ArtjvSin'itb, , who are leaving New Zealand for Syd- ' ney. His Majesty's Theatre trasi crowded, and the i'oilowiug contributed itemsto the programme:—Mrs. Arty-Smith,, the Misses Thorpe awl Do.tiglas, thy Kogers trio, and Messrs. O'Neil, Sims, Isaacs, M'Eivau/'l'flinfrßy, Locltyer, and liinsoit. The little Misses Matson and Pollock pave sovoral - Mighlitad dances, Mr. AW'i)c\v-lil*i©t acting its piper. The fctuiio .wTnirl l presented an alii- i mated appearance yesterday rooming. It, seems that owing to the scarcity o!' railtvay trucks, the AVestland Timber Company aI. Lower Vlutt were obliged to snip sitima tiO,l.XK)ft. uf Oroyiiwuth timber to-Peiew) wharf. and thence carl it to their yards. The. s.s. Jvamona arrived at 8 a.m. with 30 men, who speedily discharged the whole consign- ! inent, the work beins: finished'at''about I p.m. Arbilrationists and Fedeiatieuists worked amicably, together through lite job. It is possible that the Petoiic wharf may bo after all of some use to the district. ; Councillor Townsend has given'-notice iliat he will mote at the nest meeting of the Fetoiio Borough Council "(Tugs- • day next): "That the whole ©f the, minutes relating to the allotting of the Hccrcatioa.Gfoiinds to the Petoiio I?tootball Club be rescinded, anil that steps' fie taken to. accommodate both League and lUigby teams iipon the .Recreation Ground proper." ' ~ 'i he combined Hibernian Societies of Ffiitt and Pctoiio holding a sports., meeting on the lleerfeation CJround, Lower Itutt, •on. St. I'M rick's Day, in aid of their Sick snd Accident FtnuL The Knox Presbyterian Church, Lower Hnlt, was well tilled lasi; evening,' when the cantata "Esther" Was rendered by the chair. The leading soloists were: Mesdames Paton, Seholes, .Rogers., Miss ■ Mansuii, and -Messrs. Scully, Grant, \ Lees, rttid IJoddv.