HUTT VALLEY NEWS

Dominion, Volume 26, Issue 98, 19 January 1933, Page 3

HUTT VALLEY NEWS

Two cases of infectious disease were notified in Petone for December, reported the borough inspector, Mr. W. B. Gough. Quick progress was made with the repainting of the white road lines in the Taita Gorge yesterday. The work was completed within a few hours, and small boulders and benzine tins were placed along the lines to keep motorists off the new paint. TENNIS TOURNAMENT Anniversary Day Event The usual combined doubles tournament held each year on Anniversary Day in the Hutt Valley for the Jenkins Cup will be played next Monday. Three grades, senior, junior, and third, will be open for competition, and thp closing date for entries has been extended until to-morrow afternoon at 5 o’clock. Inter-club matches will be resumed on Saturday week, January 28. LIBRARY AT PETONE In a comprehensive summary of the activities of the Petone Municipal Library during the period of three months ended December 31, the librarian, Mrs. S. M. Shortt, states that 23 new subscribers joined the library and the same numNr discontinued, leaving the total number of members at 258. This number is the same as at the close of the previous quarter. Sixty-two new books were added to the library during the period in review. These included 10 volumes for the general section. Seven children joined the juvenile library for the last quarter of the year, making 49 subscribers. “It seems a pity that more children do not join the library when there is such a low subscription and such an abundance of books,” remarked Cr. J. C. Burns. HUTT PERSONALS Mrs. and Miss Lucas, Lower Hutt, are visiting Day’s Bay. Mrs. Sharp and family, of Lower Hutt, have returned from a holiday in Auckland. Mrs. and Miss Spicer, of Auckland, who have been the guests of Mrs. Spicer’s mother, Mrs. C. W. Adams, Lower Hutt, have returned home. The Rev. D. O. Williams has returned to Lower Hutt from a holiday in Auckland. Dr. and Mrs. Eric Maychant and familv, Lower Hutt, who have been staying with Mrs. W. Howell, Mount Nimrod, Cave, have returned home. Miss Corliss and Miss Valerie Corliss, Guthrie Street, who have been spending the holidays at Heretauuga, have returned home.