LOCAL & GENERAL

Horowhenua Chronicle, 5 July 1913, Page 2

LOCAL & GENERAL

The campaign that Mr 15. R. Gaidener is 'now carrying on with a view to having the Horowhenun Comity severed from the Wellington Hospital District and attached to Palinerston North is meeting with sutve.ss everywhere. On Wednesday last he addressed the residents of Waikanae and neighbourhood, when the following resolution was carried -.—''That this meeting of residents and ratepayers of Waikanae and neighbourhood is entirely in sympathy with the proposed so\crance ol' the Horowhclnua County from the Wellington Hospital Board and its being transferred to the Pal mer.ston Hospital and its being trans ferred to the Palmerston Hospital district, and consider that it would be of great I>eneftt to the inhabitjants of this county." Mr Gardener also held a meeting at Otaki on Thursday, when, after a very suee: sful meeting, a resolution iva.* passed: "That this meeting of residents and ratepayers of Otaki Town District and TToiwhchiua County resolves that the proposed severenee of the county from the Wellington Tins :>it:il District for the purpose of join ing that nf Palmerston North it most desirable, and would prove ad•ranta genus to the district a* a whole." Mr Gardener addressed the residents of To. Horn last night on the samfe question.

On Sunday evening in the Presbyterian Church, Rev. A. C. Randerson will deliver the last sermon of his series on "The Need of the Hour' (he subject being "Christ, the Saviour of the Divided Classes." An opportunity will be given, after the service, fer men who are not in sympathy with Christianity or the Church to ask questions. There was some laughter in the .Magistrate's Court when a man named William flatman wa< charged with having disturbed an entertainment. Sinior-S'-rgeant said that the defendant had led a uenv into a hall ai Audington wMle a dance was iu progre-s. and had waltzed round the room with it. A '•(>(• if I! 1 '-- and eest.s v. as impos Chi'istt iiui ch Evening News, A Palmerston sportsman informs a Times l I'presentative that this M'a son's duck shooting was the worst lie had known for years. He had been out consistently throughou* la.st month, and his bags were ex ceedingly small.