DOMINION NEWS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 299, 16 December 1914, Page 6

DOMINION NEWS.

SOUTH TARANAKI V. WANGANUI

Pee' Peess Association.

Wanganui, December 16.

The cricket match South Taranaki versus Wanganui, for the Hawke Cup, comericed to-day. The wicket is heavy and a gale of wind is blowing down the pitch. .Wanganui won the toss, and at the luncheon adjournment had scored,lßß for five wickets. The principal scorers are: Haddon 20, Beattio 81, Butterworth 43. ,

THE GEAR MEAT CO.

Wellintgon, December 15

The annual, meeting of the Gear Mijat Company was held to-night. The halanes of £21,537 available for apr propriation, which .the directors recoTtimended should he dealt with as fol-lows:—Payment-of dividend of 10 per cent, for the year (less interim dividend of five per cent, paid in June, absorbing £2300), £4600; to be carried forward, £14,637. The directors also recommended the payment of a bonus of fiye per cent, on the paid-up capital. The company's asests are now valued sit- £466,702. The retiring directors, Messrs David Anderson, and Hon. H.