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Motueka Star, Volume II, Issue 83, 30 May 1902, Page 5

Several important meetings are fixed on Monday next. In the afternoon the Motueka Wharf Board will hold its usual monthly sitting ; in the evening a meeting of the fruit growers will be held, to receive the reports of the canvassers, in connection with the proposed fruit growers’ co-operative company. There will also be a meet-

ing of the School Committee, and of the Literary and Debating Society, j Tuesday next being the Prince of Wales Birthday, ~ and a Government holiday, the annual meeting of the Motueka Licensing Committee has been adjourned to the next day, the 4th instant. It is notified in our advertising columns that a complimentary social and dance will be tendered to Trooper S:;ott, of the Sixth Contingent, by the public and the Riwaka division of the Mounted .Rifles, on Wednesday evening, the 4th of June, at Mr T. Macmahon’s kiln, Riwaka. A conveyance will leave Holyoake’s Hotel at seven o’cloak, returning after the dar.c j. Archdeacon Moxon, of Grafton,* New South Wales, has resigned office because the stallholders at the Cathedral fair there persisted in getting up raffles after he had asked them to dispense with that mode of promoting sales. Mr Pearson, of the well-known firm of Pearson and Rutter, wholesale produce merchants, Manchester, is at present travelling in the Taranaki districts. Mr Pearson considers that with the splendid facilities of the large creameries and butter factories t lioug h the distiict, even in remote corners, the present large output can easily be trebled in a year, as soon as the young stock now preparing for a start next season is added, and as a natural consequence the factories will require additions in some cases, which been built so as to allow of this done at a nominal cost. He confers that the farmers in New Zealand have a very safe market in England for their produce, and, as far as butter is concerned, the article speaks well enough for itself so as to command the highest price. Subscription to MOTUEKA ST AR: Three Shillings and Sixpence a Quarter, which may begin anv time