MANAWATU NEWS.
■'■ A slight outbreak of fire in the cooling- " rooms of the Longhurn Freezing Works destroyed about eight carcasses. -. To mark the occasion of Denmark's ' rWssuming. 'control of tho province of
• Slesvig," which was annexed luthlessly by " , the''Gerniana'in 18G4, a big gathering of ■'the-Danes of New Zealand will be held in Palmerston North at an early date. A strong committee has tho arrangements in hand. ' : ■• ■
Between 500 and GOO children of the Church of England Sunday School, Palmerston North, took part in the annual picnic of the Sunday School held at Ashhurst. Domain on Saturday last.
Saturday's cricket viatches were favoured with fine weather and two of the ygames;. begun the previous week were concluded, the results being wins for Midland and Old Boys over High School A and High School B respectively.
. -A : team of, Foxton tennis players paid a visit-to'Longburn .on Saturday and tried conclusions with • tho local club. Some interesting matches resulted," but the visitors were too strong for the Longburn players, and won by a total of 77 point 9 to 67.,
Bowling teams of the Palmerston North Club played matches against tho Feilding Club on Saturday. Four of the Palmerston Club's rinks went to Feilding and four rinka from the latter club came to Palmerston North. Considering tho largo number of rinks engaged tho games •proved" very'interesting, and tho greens wero in splendid condition. The aggrepite .scores were:—Palmerston, iG4; Feilding, 122. A triangular contest between teams from tho Palmerston North, AVellington, and AVauganui Clubs was held on the Palmerston green during the week-end. The result was a win for Brown's Palmerston North team, which competed against AY'nngwiui in the final. The Government in&pector of orchards has paid his annual visit io the Shannon district. Ho reports that the district- is_. much cleaner and freer from orchard'"pests, due no doubt to tho vigorous'action' of tho Department last year. It is reported that another flaxmsll workers' strike is on, the cutters at the Makerua mill having ceased work. They demanded 10s. for cutting, and have re- . fused an offer of 9s. The rate paid at the time of tho last strike was Bs. >
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Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 122, 17 February 1920, Page 8
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357MANAWATU NEWS. Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 122, 17 February 1920, Page 8
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