DAILY NOTES FROM WANGANUL

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 605, 7 September 1909, Page 6

DAILY NOTES FROM WANGANUL

(Bj Telceraph-Spcclal ; Correspondent.) ' Wanganul, September 8. A meeting, called for ' tho ' puft pose of forming an amateur boxing' association, has. resolved on'tlie formation'"of such a body,, and-will shortly apply for'recognition to i tho , Wellington ' Centre; . Drs; Christie and Wall, and Messrs.. L. ; Cohen and W. Duncaa were elected ,vice-presidents, the election of j'a president'.being held over. '.The Waitotarn County. Council to-day ro<' oeived • a lotter from the Hawera '-County Council , "showing up" a, new . "dodge" of tho Government. The fetter'pointed tliat, . where Government roads '■• were 1 ' summarily. declared county roftds and their sole coiitrd foisted on'to local bodies, Uie latter ~e-' ceiyed : practically no revenue as, .in .most casesi the. roads, wore made to open up.,: Crown lands on which tho valuation, for - many years, is very.- low. .; The vHawera : Council suggests . ' holding a conference to deal with the matter, • but, tho Waitotara . Council, having no. such roads .' under its,' control,-dccided merely 'to reply 1 ' to that effect. , , Mr. A.. N. Baggeti, who has for tlio poit four years .acted as Manager for Messrs. '.' Dalgcty and Company's local branch, ( haa : severed his connection with that firm in. order to tako up .the position of managing director for tho W-aiiganui Co-operative. Dairy; Co.. Mr.. Baggctt's. farming/friends'iutbrid ~ to' entertain him at dinner on next. 1 Tho Kaierau Football Club, winners of . this year's senior Rugby, championship, hold • . their annual reunion "of. past and present players on : Saturday. In "the. aftvnoon',. ; annual match' between the old T timcrj and , the' present players -took place. Tlio present players, who took things easy, at the start,' woke up \vhen it-was too lato to find that, tho' old-timers (among, whom ; was" H. Kie'r- ' nan, of Auckland, the well-known All Black) had not lost their cunning,: the latter winning ■ ■a : capitally-contested' gamo' by .14 points to 10. In the evening, tho president of tliu club (Mr. W. S. Dustiu)' entertained members at a smoko concert,..when a, very pleasant, timo v,-as. spent, among those, present several who took part in the- inception, ,ot the club, which is now- in its .twentieth' season, and has a long list of honours to its .credit. " During tho evening the , veteran captain (Alec lakarangi) was'presented with a gold albert and' ..pendant, by. Mr. J. T. , Hogan,' M.P., on behalf of t-lio members, in . . recognition of his fourteen years', valuable services to tho club, both on and off tho field.