HUTT & PETONE NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2218, 3 August 1914, Page 4

HUTT & PETONE NEWS.

(From Our Own Correspondent.) '•" At "the "A , Squadron ball at Lower Hutt on Friday evening, Major Samuel prespnted Corporal As, Baumsren with the .'squadron belt' for shooting. The wihnor holds the trophy...for. twelve •months,- until'some member takes it !>y. -superior niaHtsrijanship. Trooper "W. '■Wilsori-wa's 4 'riinnbr : np for the.belt' on this occasion. : ■:. ' llio ''anniversary' of the opening of Mm. A. Higgins's- Private Nursing Homo at--Upper .Hutt was celebrated on Saturday , 'nfterriboii. -There was a large attendance,'and'a novel feature was tho presence of'all-the children that were born at the. home , during the year, _acpompaniml.% their parents, and "during thb afternoon;"a photograph was falcon nf tTio- , visitors, ■ sonio. of whom camo 'frrini Petone. Soveral musical items word .rendered, refreshments wore served, arid an enjoyable time was 'spent; • Dr. Kemp was also among tho guests. ''' ■' /. • The , Pctene Municipfil Brass Band played, selections on tl'ie local .Recrea-' tion ''"Ground vesterday, before a large gathering. ''Tho collection, however, ohlv amounted : to £112s. Id.