HUTT & PETONE NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2197, 9 July 1914, Page 5

HUTT & PETONE NEWS.

(From Our Own Correspondent.!

: An enjoyable flannel dance, under the auspices of the Petone .Rowing Club was held in .'■'. St. I,' Augustine's.:.::H'all, : Petone . last'evening: ./.Upwards: of 75 persons; attended, Messrs.-' Burridge and Treniain', acted las.: M.C.'s,- arid Mrs. Pollock's orchestra supplied' the music. ■'. The' members of: the Hope of Petone lodge, No.. 187j met on Wednesday night for their weekly meeting. ■', Bro. J. Rose, C.T., ,presided. The District Executive of the.District lodge of Wellington'w'cre present: Dui-iiig the even-, ing Bro. Ingram,'acting District,Elec-: toral '.-Superintendent, .and, Bro. Petherickj Grand Secretary,;.spoke -.on'.'the good of the Order, also touching oil! the .■three-fifths', majority handicap, and urging the Lodge to take.a most activo part in the Pronibition movement; Bid. J. 'Rose, ■ E.D., reported 'receiving a. reply fronvthe. Right_Ho'n.'W.'F.■Mas-., sey, in: connection with. the resolution which was .passed by the \Lodc6 in'reference to : the ■■.three-fifths ••handicap. During, the evening :items were. render r ; ed by .the following:—Bros, v Ingram, Montgomery, .Kinsley,. Brian, and Petli•e'rick, and Sisters-Job. ■:.- ■-.■ ■)■'■:' •■..

Acting.' upon a -resolution: passed :at last- Friday's meeting of Lower ,Hutt Ratepayers, 'thd' Borough:Councilldecided to submit/a proposal asking for, a -loan of £5100 to provide' motor-buses. As the service Fill commence with three buses, for which only £3500, will be re-: quired, .it is not • intended to. raise the full amountin one'sum, .but'by: .'instal--lments, the first of whichlwill;be.£3s.oo-