LOCAL AND GENERAL

Feilding Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 4576, 29 April 1922, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

> MONDAY'S ELECTIONS. ] The annaul meetings of parents and others interested in the cause of primary education take place throughout the Feilding district next Monday night for the purpose of electing School Committees. We again request Chairmen or Secretaries of the Committees to send to the Star the results of the meetings. This can be done either by telegrams (endorsed "Press") or by telephone to this office, or by letter or postcard. All such interesting contributions will be thankfully received for publication.

An anonymous donor has sent a donation to the Wellington Hospital of £2OO. The gift is an annual one. The funds of the Wanganui-Waito-tara Patriotic Association now amount to £23,101. The new post oflice was opened at Rata on Wednesday by the Hon. D. H. Guthrie, Minister of Lands. A London cable to the Australian press stated that the divorce cases listed for the Easter term numbered IGOO. The hearings commenced on April 25. It rained all night in Wellington, and was still teeming this morning, after a week of fine weather. A land agent informed the Levin Chronicle that he had had more business inquiries during the past six weeks than for the previous six months. He was satined that things were on the mend, and would improve rapidly after the winter was over. '