COUNTRY NEWS

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 235, 28 June 1919, Page 10

COUNTRY NEWS

NOTES FROM VARIOUS CENTRES

- MANAWATU

It has been decided to form a branch of the Y.M.C.A. in Shannon. Mr. Tremewan has been elected secretary, and a large provisional committee has been set up. Messrs. Fargler, Gunning, Taylor, and Revs. Wheeldon and Walker were elected a sub-conunittee to ascertain what support could be obtained, the amount required being about .£ISOO. A special appeal will be made . for donations of ioO.

The JJanawatu Golf Club have secured the services of J. A. Clements, the golf professional.

The shooting season in tho districts surrounding Palmerston has so far been fnij-lv-successful. In the Rangitikei district especially hares have been seen. in great number, one party • recently bagging 26. Ducks, too, lire fairly plentiful. and some good shooting has been, reported among them and other game in' the district. A . record number (25) of deer license has been taken out, being twice as many as for any other season ill the history of., the local Acclimatisation Society. Sambur doer abound in the swamn land along tho coast, nnd several head are reported to have, been taken this-season in tho Manawatu and Rangitikei districts. -

Lieutenant Harr.v M'Crea. son of Mr. and Mrs. J. A. M'Crea, of Palmerston Sorth, is expected homo this week from overseas.

At the half-ye.irly summoned meeting of the T-oyal Manawatu Lodse, M.W.0.T.0.0,1;\, at Palmerston North, this week. Bro. J. Barsnnti was elected I.P.N.G. The newly-elected officers were installed, and the following appointments made:—RS. lo N.G., Bro: D. D. Williams: L'-Si to' N.G.. Bro. J?. .T. Cox; R-.S. to V.G., Bro. H. Couper, P.G.; L.S. to V.G., Bro. .T. Brackenridge, P.J.; W., Bro. L. S. Catterick; 1.G., P.G. Bro. J. Sharman.

Mi. A. D. Brown, of "Paetawa," Waikanae. has received news of the deaths of Louis, Marcia, and Claudia, son and daughters of Mr. and Mrs. C. Nodine, late of Wellington, for very mnny years, well-known residents of Te Horo. .'The' Nodine family are. residing in England, and influenza was the cause of: tlioir demise. - .... Dr. Mackenzie, of Levin, paid a visit to Waikanae recently, and met the parents, and gave them an outline of his scheme for dental treatment' of school children. ' The scheme consists cf periodical inspection and subsequent dental treatment -of children from the <'.ge of six or seven venrs. The scheme was received most favourably, and it. is quite probable that a number of Waikanao parents'will avail themselves of its advantages. . WAiRARAPA . Mr. C. E. Conk'tjurn-ilooil's Glendonald homestead was destroyed by fire on Friday night. Mr. and 'Mrs. CcckburnHood recently left oil'a visit to tho Old Country. \

Five tenders: have been received for the erection of a ferro-concrete bridge over tho AVainjawa-River.-

The Commission which recently sat in respect to the oust of the construction of the Tauherenikau 'bridge lias Allocated tho cost ns follows:—Featherston County, 75 per cent.; AVairarapa South County, 10 per cent.; Ifnstcrton' County, 4 per cent.; Jfasterton borough, 4 per cent.; Carterton borough, 2 per cent.; Greytown borough, 2 per cent.; .Featherston borough, 1 per cent.; Castlepoint County, 1 per'cent. ... The Wnirarapa Hospital and Charitable Aid Board (has framed a remit for consideration at the Conference of Hospital Boards, suggesting a different ' method than the present of making the levies upon local; authorities. . A resolution from tho B.uller Hospital and Charitable Aid Board, asking the Minister of Hospitals to. have the Act 'amended so that widows with children under the required age may bo entitled to.tho widows' pension irrespective of the time of residence, has not met with the approval of the Wairarapa-Hospital «i"'. Charitable Aid Beard. The AVairarapa Hospital and Charitable Aid Board yesterday endorsed a-resold tion_ of the Taranaki lioiird, asking the Minister of Hospitals to convene a conference of boards. - The urgent necessity, for making additions to tho Sohvay Home in irnsterton is to be placed before tho Minister of Public Health.

Dunn? tho last two months, thirty-one oases of infections disease have been reported in South Wairn.rapa, and twentyfive in North Weimrapa.