COUNTRY NEWS

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 43, 14 November 1919, Page 10

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(Prom Our Soeeial Correspondents.! HANAWATU Tho Salvation Arniy in I'aimerslon North extended si very cordial welcome to Commission Ilodder, who is pnyjn; a visit of inspection io this division, 'i'ho eveninij commenced with an opsn-siir iKirade in the Square, at which siltendcd the J'uhnLM'i-ton Xorlii Salvation .\rmv Silver Band, Feilding .Salvation Army "•Silver Band, the Foxton Boys' Life-sav-ing Scouts' 'J'rtimpet. Band, and 'tlio J'almerston'Girls' Life-saviiiK Scouts. .Aj't.-r----wards a musical thanksgiving service w;m belli in the Sulvation Army Kali, where there was a very lurjc attejulancs. The visitors included Coinmisjioner J fodder and Colonel M'lnncs, chief sceretarv. who were accorded' » hearty welcome by Brigadier Twiner, It. was announced that General Booth would visit Now Zealand next year, and would be in PaliniM'atou on April 8. A poll of ratepayers was take;i on Wednesday to authorise the raising, of a loan of- .SIO.UM for tho purpose of carrying out extensions to the jiorousli abattoir-!, but was lost. The voting was 81 against and 38 for. Only 122 votes were polled out of approximately 50u0 ratepayers. Co'nstablc Boyd, of tho Palwerston Police Force, was married on Wednesday to Miss Kate Ihrrictt Thouws, also of l's-'-i.-'r»l'V.i. . '

■ The animal prize-Riviiiir ceremony in ' connection with the 3'almerston North 1 Technical School look placo in tho ' Opera.' House last" nisht. The jiri7.es ! were presented by tho Mayoress (Airs. ,T V Na=h). The annual report of the ! director (Mr.' F. 1). Opie) ftalcd that ihe i school opened this year with a roll nnniI brr of M students nttending 52 clasfcs, with Iflts enrolments, The total number of pupils admitted during the year vns 580. made up of '208 free pupils and 372 jwyiiiß pupils. Shorthand spi'od I'ljrtilicafe woro awarded to Misses 51. GossnßP A'. Kilsot!!'. M.. Kileour, and O. The Orona County Council has deculrd to take steps to raise a loan of .f-150 for tho pnrpnse of constructing tho Himkawa. -Road. ■ . A -brunch of the Y.M.C.A. lias lwen formed ct Otaki, with "Mr. Byron Brown Las president. • A dinner and .public welcome were ptven to returned soldiers in the Foxvnn district on Wednesday night. .'1 ho (rajheviiiK was a eroat -sueeoss ntul sn-echrs of wolcome were innde by His Mnrshm Hie Afnvoi- (Mr. J. Chrystall) and Padre T. Hnllii-lnv. , Considerable dumnjje has been to fruit and vPsetabln crops in the 1 oxton district In- recent nrnvy gales. _ Tho slock of coal at the gasworks; in t-'os.ton is at nrcsent 177 ton's, sufficient for four months' requirements. Miss tfny. of the staff of the Foxtnn Ptate School, has left for her homo in Tasmania. „ , ~ , The Vox ton Borough Council decided to purchase from V*. Collins, for- .C?i!fl. tho section in Jfni'i Street, ndjoiniuu the Tnqt Office Hold, ,«s nn erirance to the li'i'd donated hv Jfr. A. S. Kaston as a iHiblic park. Portion of tins section is lo be civen to Jfr. _in rTchni),"* for another section ai'ioint"? the lend donated, which will enable (he council to" make a 'lirect entrance to til- , mv p«rl: from J.fajn Strwr. Mr. V. Nevion, one of Voxlons oldo=t nnd most' rejected eilf/'-n? died on M"iuWv In?t nt ihe atr> of "0 yrars. "■p-tlier Affiillard. Otaki, will leave early rext yenr for France. • 'sT"^iers-nf .the Rifle Club (OV.ikn •eomneted in the last round f«r .-< cup pwented ,by'Tioi'-Presid"nt ,T. T). TfoTrnll and for pr'aes prcsputAl by Air. (I Kirlc. Tim winner? wen- the three yoiwßesT! member? of tli" club, Ihe pud wtntier being A. Tfcmchiimn. V. Ginwas second, and G. Hay ward third. .