District News Items.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 24 April 1915, Page 3

District News Items.

OTAKI MAIL

fti-ja. E. Lodge, clerk oi the Horowhejjiia County Council, has offered his services in the New Zealand Expeditionary Forces, and hopes to be accepted shortly. The harvest offerings at tlu , Munakaii Anglican Church were disposed of on Monday night, and brought very satisfactory prices, a sum of nearly £4 being realised. A goed etory is told of a bright schoolgirl at one of the schools not a hundred miles from Tα Hnro. The children were {required to wrifle a composition on "roses." One smart girle- composition contained the startling assertion that "White roses are largely ueed in the manufacture of kerosene." Evidently that girl was of an observant nature, and had taken notice of the tins and cases marKed "White rose kerosene."

A quiet, bnt exceedingly 'pretty. wedding, which created a great amount of interest, was celebrated at the Otaki Methodist Church this afternoon, when Miss Mable St Olair Pole, second daugh ter of onr esteemed townspeople, Mr and Mre J. 8. Pole, was married to Mr Paris Brooke Anderson, youngest eon of Mr and Mrs P. B. Anderson, of Manakau. who are among the oldest resident* of the district. The ceremony was conducted by the Rev. H Cotton.