HUTT AND PETONE NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1356, 6 February 1912, Page 8

HUTT AND PETONE NEWS.

(From Oar Special Correspondent.) At a specrol meeting of the l'ctono Borough Council hold last evening for the purpose of further caiifiilorinu applications for Hip position of assistant tovni clerk, tiiroe candidates were interviewed and subsequently the meeting war, adjonrncd till nest Friday, when the- appointment will come before the full council. By way of popularising the Lower Unit Municipal Library, Councillor ,T. Ball Kavo an interevstinff address on Iwos at the library last uvenimr. The lecturer dealt wit.h tlip effect, of the boo on flowers ft ml fruit, especially touching on the transmission- of pollen by bees and its results ii\ fertilising plants. lie I lion passed on to beekeeping, Unie'iint; incidentally on tlie habits of the ciiicen bw>. and other interesting aspects of the subject. The lecturer was accorded a heartv vote of thank?. A niOKtiiiK of the WelliiiKton Methodists' Association was hold at the residence* of the liov. .1. Garlick, Lower llntt ypslcnlay afternoon. Coiiferenea and olhor matters were discussed. lhn lVtone Ambulance Van Committee intend holding Ambulance Saturday on February it.