PROVINCIAL NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 200, 18 May 1908, Page 2

PROVINCIAL NEWS.

(rnoa oun special comtEsroNDEimii ' — : '' PALMERSTON NORTH. ' Mr. F. D. Opie, Director of the Technical School, has succeeded in establishing a plumbing scholarship for apprentices attending the Palmerston North Technical School. The finance part of the schemo has been guaranteed by.' the majority of the local master plumbers,also by Messrs. T. Ballinger and C 0.,. of Wellington. - The scholarship is tenable for two years;' ,

Tho Palmerston Coursing Club yrill hold its nest meeting during'the National Dairy Show week.. It has been decided to increase the stakes." . Mr. F. P. Snow, who has passed through a . serious operation, is now out of danger. PAITIATUA. : ; , A meeting of the executive .of the' local branch ,of the Farmers' Uuion was hold here on Saturday afternoon. Tho following; re; solutions were passed':—"That, owing to tho almost prohibitive price of timber, the Government bo asked tb remove the duty on building timber; that it should sory that fifty/per cent, of employees be members of a labour union before that union has, power to cite employers before an industrial court; that land be valued, not on its selling, but. on'its producing, value, based on a term of seven years." , The Woodvillo schoolboys, played two fopt-, ball, mntches-at tho local Recreation Ground at Pahiatua against the' local schoolboys.' The first fifteens drew. . In the second match Woodville .wou bj five tc nil. I\o senior matches were played.. , LEYIN. ■ ' In the championship hockey, matches .on. Wednesday, Levin beat the ,Otaki. team on the Levin Park by .s>.to 3,rand.:the Hui Mai ladies' team beat tho Jlanakau, ladies by 1 goal to nil.' : . . ■" The Levin Dramatic! Society',,presented- its first piece, under amateur management, on Wednesday night to the largest house perhaps ever seen in Levin,': the' Town Hall being simply packed'.' ' The piece,.' " Our Boys," went with a swing J/rom 1 beginning to end, though punctuated many 'times with hilarious laughter, and one and all;connected with the Society ought to -,feel, satisfied with th«j 'result •of their-..,endeavour's."' -> 1

OTAKI. r, : . • .The usual monthly meeting, of/: the :,Otaki. United Temperance .'Society,, was. held, on Friday night, when there was a large attendance of the public. , Among those to give musical. and .ybcal items';• were Misses Daniel, Ferguson, Armstrongj Cook-.-(2), ir the' Methodist' Choir, ' and Mr. 1 Walton. The Rev. J. Edwin Jones gave;-art' interesting address.on temperance. : FEATHERSTO'N. . A social and distribution of prizes in connection with- the South Fe'atherstori Methodist Sunday School'was lield in the .'school there oil Friday night. There; was scarcely Standing ; room, the school being:, packed; to the door. . Mr.; J. T. Pratley. was in th'e chair. The first item was a sacred chorus by the girl scholars, followed, by: recitations by Master It. Yulo ("The Fireman'..')', Myrtle Davison ("My Dolly"), dialogue . by', M. Gilpin' and' D. Burt, 'recitations by S. Tyler, Henry King, G. Mouldy ;., song, " Daddy," Miss . Sadler; ■ . humorous''recitation, " The Razor .Seller,". Master P. Burt; recitation, Master R...Yule: The Rov> ! ;W. J. Elliott gayo ,an address, and presented •the prizes. Great credit l is due to Mi - ; and Mrs. Holcr.oft, (the superintendents) for the splendid, manner in' which the. arrangements wero carried!out.. )'A bountiful supply, of refreshments was handed round', during the evening. >■ Mr. G. Coe, sen., gave • some splendid phonograph selections at intervals'.. * It, is probable,thatea special .train will, run from here on tho : occasion : of. the - British football .match at Masterton.