COUNTRY NEWS

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 233, 26 June 1919, Page 10

COUNTRY NEWS

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BIANAWATU

At a meeting of tho Management Committee of the Manawatu Hockey Association this week correspondence vas received in regard lo challenge matches from the New Zealand, Wellington, and Canterbury Associations, and it was agreed to play Wellington in tliat city on July 20. The Holeclors are to pick a list of profcablo players at once, who'will go into training. Canterbury wrote asking that August II should be pencilled for a shield maich in Palmerston, in the event OY Manaivatii defeating Wellington on July 20. Should Wellington remain holders on tlw latter date. Canterbury ,are to.bo asked to play a, friendly match at Palmerston, instead of the shield match. Ihe M'arton Jlockey Club wrote asking if it were possible to play alternate matches in Palmerston ami Marton, in place of tho piesent nrrangement. It was resolved that it was impossible to fall in with (he suggestion this senson. A district office or tho Public Trust Office has been opened in I'almerslon .North.

Tile half-yearly "summoned meeting of the Court lUanaivntti, A.0.1 1 '., was hold at Palmerston this week. The election of officers resulted as follows.— C.'li. i>ro Kodgcrs; S.C.K., BrO.'H. Fletcher; treasurer, Bro. A. Albrecht; secretary, Jiro. Yortt; S.W., Ero. (J. Walker; J.\V.,])ro. A. M. Al'Liiod; S.U., Bro. 'J. Collision; minutes secretary, liro. J. ii. Jiosanki. i'ho installation will wke place at tho next meeting. At a meeting of thoOtaki Fire Brigade arrangements wero made fur tho display_ of a picture film for tlio purpose of raising money to carry on tho work ot tho JMjgadc. It was stated that .Mr. M Millau had offered the uso of the theatre for the occasion and to supply a leading picture. The Palmerston North Operatic Society have commenced practises preliminary to tlicir presentation oi "rha Country Girl." ' '

On account of the withdrawal of Mr. J. Jtoljortson, ex-member for Otaki, from the selection ballot, Mr. M. Ayrton has been declared by tho Labour itepresentatjon Committee the official candidate for Labour in Palmerslon A'orth at Uie next general election. /Mr. Ayrton is lecturer at Palmorston for Ihe Workers' Educational Institute.

Payments this season by tho Tararua (Ballance) Cheese Company total Is. lid. per lb. of biittcr-fut, witu the momd of another bonus at the end of the season liio factory plant is being overhauled and repairs and improvements being eilectoa. Alilk is still being received, but after that it will bo taken in at tuo other Ballanco factor}-. Mr; J. A. Nash, M.P., president of tho Manawatu Pntriotio Association, i 9 communicating with tho New Zealand Pierrot Troupe, which gave so many iuccMsiiu entertainments m iVanco and JbVlaml, and endeavouring to arrange ior them to visit Palmorston North. ° Customs duty to the amount of .£4882 was collected at Palmerston North'during tho month ended -Alay 31, li)] 9. Mr. Thomas James, son of tiio oldest residents of Feildiug, died this v.mk, iWI iS years. Ee ieaves a w:'<loV ai.d a grown-up family. .'i'ho diUicultieSs met with by the officials of the Manawatu Patriotic Society, in making arrangements for tho reception of drafts of returning soldiers, were exemplified on Tuesday ui connection with the draft from the Waimana, which arrived at Auckland on .Monday, ".'ho lust oificial information received was to tho effect that the first train witn 400 mon for Wellington province and {South Island would pass Inrongh Palmorston at 0 a.m., and the second with a smaller number would follow soon after i.oon. Ii whs alao officially announced that on these trains there would be to men foi Piiiiuerston worth. Tiio. first tram came in at 10.10 a.m., imd only eight men arrived tor Paliuerstou, wliilu the second train, which got in nearly on turn , was nearly empty, and brought only tivo'men tor tiie town. Sufficient cars had been .iwonued by members of the Voluntary Motor Corps to convey all the expected men to their homes, ax so few men came by the first train, the cars collected at the station for tlio second one only to find that their services were again not required. This stato of affairs has occurred on numerous other occasions, and is very disheartening to all concerned, and precludes the possibility of any organised reception of the men. WAIRARAPA

At a joint mooting of the Technical School managers, Trust Lands Trust, mid .School Committee held on Tuesday e> enin i s ~,°,v .I 1 , 0 ™ 1 ? resolutions wero passed:- (3) That tho Trust Lands Trust agrees ,to vary the conditions regarding the expenditure of money on the proposed lexical. High School. (2) That the local -technical High School Proposal Committee cannot provide further fbnds irom any other source. ;3) That the extra land required (as suggested by the Department) could be secured from Mr. Darnell, and the committee is of opinion thai, the Department should negotiate direct with Mr. Dnniell." A deputation is to wait upon the Minister and Director of Education in regard to tho matter. A young man named Bannister hue been admitted to the Mastorton Hospital suftenng from a fracture of the small bone ? u .?■ Tll ° in } urv WIUi sustained in a tootball match played at Langdalo. . Influenza in a mild form is prevalent in Mastorton. Last week several families m bouth Wairarapa wore isolated owing m? mo , r ? severe form of disease. iho eluldrcn of the Mastorton ]/:strict High School were given a half-holiday on liiesday when the announcement was made that Germany had agreed to sign the peaco terms unconditionally. It- is understood that there- me between seven and eight hundred applicants for the sections in tho Pihautea bolder Settlement, which is to be balloted for on Friday next. Tho soldiers who returned by the Wnimiuiu were given a hearty reception at Masterton on Tuesday afternoon. Ihe Masterton poultry show is to be opened by Mr. Cf. It. Sykes, M.P., on Friday afternoon.

Petty thieving and clothes lifting are reported to be common in Masterlon at the present time.

As uie result of being thrown from a ?;?, the death occurred in the Greytown Hospital this week of Mrs. Susan Pepjierell, a well-known Featherston resident In recognition of her splendid work as present of the Fcnthereston Red Cross Commilteo, Mrs. Q. Donald was recentl'y presented with a silver tea tray and basliet suitably inscribed.