CARTERTON.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10195, 23 March 1911, Page 6

CARTERTON.

At the annual meeting of the Carterton Hockey Club, the report and balance sheet, showing a credit balance of £9 7s 4d, was read and adopted. Officers as under were elected Patron, Mi- W. C. Buchanan, M.P.; President, Mr W. Howard uooth; Vice-Presidents, Messrs W. A. Kitchen, E. Eagle jr., W. Moore, W. Fisher, A. Ji Lindop and C. Morgan senr.; secretary audi treasurer, Mr C. M. Whyte; auditor, Mr L. Carmine ; Management Committee, Messrs E. V; Ellis, S. Morgan, J. Lawrence; and the secretary and treasurer; Match Committee, Messrs E. Tunnicliffe, S. Mprgan, and the captain; delegates to Wairarapa Hockey Association, Messrs A. J. and J Fisher and C. M. Whyte. The subscription was fixed at 2s 6d for juniors, and 5s for seniors. It was decided' to open the season on the 30th inst., and to retain the colours' black aiid' white.

Dr E. W.. Smyth, who has been practising his profession in Carterton for the past two years, has tendered his resignation to the various Friendly Societies, on account of his aproaching departure from, the district. During his residence in this district, the doctor has won many friends, and there are numbers who will remember him very gratefully for the care and skill he has shown when they have had occasion to require his presence as a doctor. -

The absence of rain is - beginning to become a serious matter, for everything round about is becoming very dry. The roads are breaking up,j so much so that they are something like newly metalled streets. Tlie Rev. B. H. Ginger, formerly Methodist Minister here, and now of Wo'odville, was on a brief visit to the; town yesterday. " • ■ A sale of produce, etc., in connection with the Methodist Harvest Festival, took place on Tuesday;evening, in the schoolroom; . There was a good attendance, and, as usual, the goods found ready purchasers.

The many friends of Mr Jas. Jones, of South Carterton, wifl regret to hear that his wife is at present 'undergoing a critical illness.

The Wairarapa South County Council staff on Tuesday placed ■concrete pipes in the water race crossing the East Taratahi Road, on this side of the Waingawa School.