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Otaki Mail, 10 May 1922, Page 4

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—■ - • T J HOROWHENUA ASSOSOCIA . 10M. scr * <•'i The weekly meeting was held on 'a- . i 1-1 lurday evening, those present being Messrs E. Nash, J. Casey, E. Clarulge, E. Bevan, H. kaiauti, i. Welnpeiiiana, Seymour, J. (J'kuinior, H. Sioan and j. \V. Procter. Mr Procter was chairman. J Mr L. H. Arcus, Oliau, informed tiie Association that he would he unable - to referee tiie match allotted to him on account oi 111-healtli. Mr K. Davis, Manakuu, was elected a member oi tiie Association. Messrs O’Connor, Percy and to loan were elected an appointment commit- Jo tee for tiie season. Some discussion took place with re-. *‘d gard to tiie amended rule, and ii was I t decided that tiie kick into' touch he nc not allowed Horn a mark until a ml- lb ing was received troin die New Z.ea- sli land Itelerees' Association. 5 Ji was decided that tiie Association nl adhere to all appointments made this W season and that any team refusing to play under them should forfeit tiie | game. t What will tiie Plunket Society do in return for die splendid- financial j support it has received from tiie } all-, lie Answering this question on Mon- ; day night. Dr. Truby King stated that ( a I they undertook that the datli rate . a among young children would be le- > ii I duced in five years from 70 to 33 1 or > thousand. Me referred to the ia ili-j ties which had been given to tiie So- j 11 cietv by the Government, particularly j the arrangement, whereby the Society I is promptly Inlonned of every imth .a registered. The Society had boon s trying to get that for fifteen years. Already things were improving, said Dr. King, for whereas the death rate had 1 been 7-1 per thousand tiie year before s last, it had been only oo last year, and , this year he hoped it would be only 'if), so that they were on a fair way to keep their promise to reduce it to 35 per 1000 in five years. Mr 11. Holland, M.P. for Duller, header of tiie N.Z. Labour Party, will j deliver addresses in Levin. Shannon and Foxton in about ten day's time. “Do no members of the police force I know the price of a bottle ol Dunedin j beer?” asked Mr A. 11. Young, sM . j at tiie Hamilton Court, during the bearing of a case in which a Frank-J ton resident was charged with selling liquor to a native. We are till teetotallers” replied the Senior-Ser-geant. smiling. Apologising lor his shortcomings a> | a speaker, a guest at a Greymouth valedictory function stated that lie I had never had an opportunity to he- | come proficient. “My wife wont.ie* ' me.” he said. A protest has been lodged with Di° Wanganui Education Board in connection With the election of the school committee at Bnnnythorpe on Monday night. The reason for Hie protest is that the ladies, who are entitled to a vute, were allegedly refused tiie privilege. • Some amusement was caused in tiie \ Gore Magistrate's Court, when the ■■clerk read out a summons charging } Die Mayor and Councillors of Gore Borough Council with failing io register firearms, to wit, rifles, etc. Boer . war relics) in Die Gore library. On the sergeant stating the case, the Magistrate (Mr E. C. Levey'- asked: fs this not straining the Act- 1 tie .Mayor (Mr D. McDougalß explained ; that the Council was not aware that tiie rifles would have lo be registered. and the Magistrate dismissed the information on condition that the hre- * arms were registered. f wsxim