ELTHAM.

Taranaki Daily News, 9 June 1922, Page 8

ELTHAM.

HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. June 8. (From Our Own Correspondent.) The . Eltham Horticultural Society, after a ten. years’ lapse, have decided to again revive their spring floorer show, and have decided on Wednesday, September 20, aS the date upon which to hold the show. A considerable number of prizes have already been donated, amongst the donors being Messrs. Duncan and Davies, R. Gibson, T. B. Crump, F. R. Pepperell, and H. McGarry. Mr. Crump’s prize is allotted for the best kept rural garden within a radius of four miles of Eltham; Mr. Pepperell’s for the best kept cottage vegetable garden on a holding of nor more than a quarter-acre section; while Mr. McGarry’s prize goes to the competitor having the best garden not over half an acre. The committee is hard at work on the schedule, which they hope to have completed and published this month, and feel confident of gaining even brighter success than that attained ten years ago.

AN ACCIDENT.

While attending in the bar of the Coronation Hotel yesterday, Mr. W. H. Gates, one of Mr. E. Crabtree’s employees, had. the misfortune to drop a bottle, a splinter of which entered the pupil of his left eye. He was immediately conveyed to Wanganui, where the glass was* extracted, but it is feared that he .will lose the sight of the eye.