HUTT & PETONE NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2190, 1 July 1914, Page 10

HUTT & PETONE NEWS.

(From Our. Own Correspondent.) Tho Mayor of Pctone (Mr. J. W. M'Ewan) Ims been offered, and lias accepted, a seat on the Jiutt Licensing Committee, • rendered vacant by tho death, of Jlr. Orton Stsvens. Several places have been suggested as a sito.for a high school for Butt and 'Pctonc, the Hutt Talk being frequently mentioned. A keen education-! isfc suggests :i sito at Percy's Gardens as most suitable, tin account of its sheltered position, and its beauty. A. position on-Percy's site would bo in close proximity to both Hutt and Pctono railway stations, and would liavo tho advantage of being on the msin arterial roadway. Tho same gentleman suggests that a high school on this section might serve as a memorial' to the early settlers who landed on Pctono beach, as ifc would directly overlook the spot wliere tho pioneers first toncJicd the soil of New Zealand.

The following will represent the Peione Hockey. Club ngainst Hui Mai at Karori to-day Careen, Dolling, Hartlo.v, Edlin, Hay, Pointon, Parrant, Taplin, Lowry, Cavell, Howe. Emergency—Hecker. Train at 1.37 p.m. PETONE MAGISTRATE'S COURT. The following aro the roturns i for tho quarter ended yesterday:—Plaints entered, 17; amounts sued for, £116 155.; amounts.recovered, £52 135.; judgment summonses issued, i; orders made, 1; summonses served, 77; distress warrants executed, G; civil fees, £1 4s; fines, £8 10s.; number of persons summoned or arrested, 21 (males).