PROVINCIAL PARAGRAPHS

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 11, 6 October 1937, Page 12

PROVINCIAL PARAGRAPHS

Dur Own Correspondents.)

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Farmers vote for Amaigamation. A meeting of tlie Porangahau branch of tho New Zealand Farmers' Union was held in the Masonic Hall on Monday evening, when Mi M. Davidson, the president, presided. A resoiution iavQuring the amaJgamation of the Sheepowners' Federation and the Farmers' Union was passed. Golf at Ormondville. Combined with the women -s medal round, played on the Ormondville links during the week-end, Avas a stroke competition for the best net score, the prize for which was giveh by Mi's B. Morrison. The winner was Miss Joan. Morrison, with a net score of (i8. At a committee meeting held at the clubhouse it was decided to cancel the "Yankee" competition, as too few players had entered, and to allot what should have been its trophy to the eclectio competition. The final for the Hyde Cballenge Cup was played during the week-end. D. Forward defeated E. G. Port by 5 and 4. The women' s. club secretary has announced the folloAving re-handicaps Miss J. Morrison from 20 to 19, Miss M. Rendle' from 24 t0 23. Series of Euchre Parties. The firsf of a series oi euchre parties arranged by the Ormondville Women' s Institute, held in the Peace Memorial Hall, Ormondville, was well attended. Mrs H. Howes won the women's prize with 11 games. Mrs W. A. Trask and Mrs Smith tied for the women's consolation prize with 2£ games each, Mrs Smith winning on- the cut. The men's consolation prize was won by Master Alfie Harvey with four games. Supper was provided by institute members. W.E.A. Lecture at Waipukurau. "It is open to discussiou whether it is possible to have . anytliing other than government for the beneflt of certain sections of it>he community under present-day conditions," commented Mr P. Martin-Smith, M.A., L.L.B., Dip. Ed., W.E.A. lecturer, in an address at Waipukurau last night, when he dealt with Demoeracy and Representative Government "In this country," he said, "we have tbo Rt. Hon. M. J. Savage, who says no-on9 will be hurt, and on the other side we have the Hon. Adarn Hamilton, who says Mr Savage's Govtfnment benefits only a section of tho community." The lecturer dealt with the. history of JDemocratic government, from its earliest beginnings right up to the present day. Stop Bank for Tukltuki. Work has been started by a gang of inarried men employed by the Pul»lic Works Department at Waipukurau on the building of a stop-bank to prevent a repetition of the flodding oi the Tukituki river, which inundatcd the low-lying parts of the borough last February. The job is to he done on a co-opcrative contract basis, at a cost of £2620, £500 of wliich will be fpuiid by the Waipukurau Borough CounciL