DISTRICT NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2489, 16 June 1915, Page 11

DISTRICT NEWS.

* JOTTING 3 FROM PROVINCIAL CENTRES. (From Our Special Correspondent*.! 6 NAPIER. t Mr, G. F. Roach has been re-electec 1 chairman of the Hastings Holiday Asso- . eiation Committee. The Hastings branch of the Catholic . Federation has elected the following officors for the ensuing year: —President Father M'Donnoll; vice-presidents. Father Mahony and Mr, F. Pimley. t At the Napier Court to-day a debtoi 1 in a judgment summons case who haj . a wife and two young children, anc e earns £3 a week, said he did not smoke 3 gamble, or drink. The S.M. (Mr. S s E. M'Carthy) said business people allow - ed customers to get into debt, and thei e they expected the Court to hold a pisto i at the head of the debtor in order to gei e money. e _ To-day the Napier Harbour Board re s ieoted a motion my Mr. Eustace Lan( which alleged that the dredge Waikak; !- was not suitable for constructing th< [1 inner harbour East Coast railway env n bankment. and asked the board t< ~ have tho work done by contract. Sonu o alterations have been made to th< t dredge which worked satisfactorily to o day for the first time. i. _ During the last five months the Na, o ier Harbour Board's revenue has do a creased by £3478, in comparison wit! e the corresponding period of 1914. Mem 3 bers have decided to devote all the avail, - able money to the construction of th< ii west shore embankment.