COUNTRY NEWS

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 32, 1 November 1919, Page 10

COUNTRY NEWS

NOTES FROM VARIOUS CENTRES

(From Our Special Correspond™! s.j HANAWATU When speaking at the annual dinner of tlio motor garage proprietors wilh tvhicli the coiit'oreucc was concluded. Mr. Hugh A leers, president of the. Maiiawatu ami West Coast A. and I'. Association, said that his association had under consideration a scheme for holding an exhibition nf motor-ears in Palmerston North. They had already promised llr. Dalton, British 'J'rade Commissioner, that they would en-operate with him in a North Island exhibition of articles of British manufacture, and wore awaiting his return before going further into the matter. It was considered Hint Palmerston North from its natural situation was tlio most suitable place for such an exhibition of motors. ]t was intended to throw competition open to all Allied countries as well as British manufacturers.

DANNEVIRKE The fine we-alhor of the past week or go hits allowed shearing to proceed apace, and some of the smaller shwls have already finished, wliilo the big Tonta.no shed has cut ont after a {straight run of three weeks Ir. spile of the dry autumn followed by a had winter the wool is coming to hand in pood condition, and the yolk appears to be well up. while sesdy wool is not so much m evidence as in nrevious years. The roll of the Damievirko South School has now reached pS, and the accommodation *.s becoming somewhiH cramped. Miss Cllanville, wdio has l>een a teacher at the school for some years, is retiring on superannuation. The children at the W-onsatainoKa School have collected ■£&) towatds tlio funds for Dr. Barnado's homes.