Otaki and District

Horowhenua Chronicle, 18 February 1916, Page 3

Otaki and District

iN'EWS PAB.S MIOM THE MAIL. We are pleased to be able to record the lacb that Miss Waikuharu Parana, the tWrtecit-yeav-old etalighter of Mr Tom Parnta, of Waikanae, has been awarded a scholarship at the Hukarere Maori Girl's College, Uawke'is Bay. The scholarship is tenable lor two years, and is of the annual value of £20. Tickets for the Otaki Patriotic Society's art union, for which four valuable sections of land are tiie prizes, are going l .off very well, although only a few have ben canvassing as yet. One lady sold five books of f-12 It's worth) in n few days, and is now using her, energies disposing of others. Mr andi Mrs Walton and family, of Wellington, have taken up residence ii Otnki.. having leased the residence o* Mr Byron Brown. "Mr Wilton in the new manager of the Otaki Dairy Company* A first offender, within the meaning of the Act, appeared before Mr W. | TompSitit, J. P., yesterday morning, and charged with drunkenness. Constables Satliorley detailed: the arrest ol accused, who pleaded guilty to the charge, and <added that defendant stater* that he had procured liquor from ii private person, but orders in Otaki, appearedi to be broken with impunity, and it was a ddfßou.lt matter for the police to secure judgment against persons supplying liquor. Mr Touipsi tt pointed out to tlio accused tliot while prohibited ho was under penalty for securing drink even from a private residence. He wouW inHict a penalty of £1, in default 48 hours' imprisonment. Owing to dry weatlier the milk yield ar tho Maiiakau dairy factory has decreased considerably of late.

At » sale lie 11 reoc.itly ut Mauakuu a young bull wo a given uy Air Cotter, and sold to .raise lunUs lor tlie local Patriotic .Soeit.%. The ijjffice realised was made up ol the loliowing bids:— Messrs (jotter anil Quayle £1 each, Mr Holkiud £1 2s; Messrs Bryant, Oottle. Taylor, Fair-ley, T. ibevan, Burnell ltte each; Messrs Wells, Uleeson, and tic hole* on each, and two anonymous buyers pS each. ■Mr Edward Marsh Gatton has enlisted and goes into camp early next uiontiEt. * Some twenty-live tons of cheese have been commandeered the Government, from the Manakali 00-op. Dairy Co., 'for Imperial supplies, for the months of January and February. The price paid is 7Jd per lb, f.o.b. Wellington, j The suppliers In the cheese factories - i i the Dominion arc doing their bit towards the expense of the war as New Zealand cheese is quoted at IKis fo 9&s on the London market.