WAVERLEY.

Hawera Star, Volume L, 18 February 1931, Page 8

WAVERLEY.

W.D.F.U. .MELTING. I ire monthly meeting of the women’s division of the Farmers’ Union was held on Friday last, Airs. Alacfarlarie presiding. Also present were: Mcs'liimes Simson. Palmer, AlcGregof. Dickie. Boyer, Aiken, Alex. Elmslie. W. Johnstone, and the Alisses Kennedy, Svmes, A. McGregor. and the secretary. Apologies were received from Mesdanies Blaekiston" Buy Hughes, and Miss I. A. McGregor. A vote of sympathy was passed to those who had lost relatives and friends in the Napier disaster. Tlie motion was carried, all present standing iii silence. A report of the executive meeting held in Dunedin in January was read. There were three housekeepers and one maternity nurse employed by the branch since the beginning of the year.

ASSAULT ( TJ ARG ES. At the Alagistrate's Court on Friday, before Air. J. 11. Salmon. S.AE. on charges of assault, S. J. Ericsson was fined £lO and AY. A. Ericsson and E. Luder £5. SCHOOL, PICNIC POSTPONED. The Wavt'rluy School Committee decided at. a special meeting to postpone indefinitely the school picnic which had been arranged. TOWN' BOARD. The monthly meeting of the Wuverley Town Board was hold last week, Mi*. A. -J. Ad lam presiding. The Commissioner of ’Transport wrote notifying that tlie motor regulations necessitated the appointment of a local testing officer. Air. Palmei* was appointed local drivers’ licensing and testing officer. i The Department of Health submitted a report on tests made on samples of the town water. It was discovered that the sample of supposedly liltered water bad been drawn from a pipe I which lnul not been used regularly and which was not connected with the filler. It was agreed that further samples be taken after the filter had been iJlus]i**<l through icverai times, such samples to be submitted to a fur (her test.

it was resolved at a special meeting that iU per cent, be added to all rates not paid mi or before March HI, and that without further notice, they be sued for.

\ The. board is to employ the men old of work on the unemployment scheme.

h was resolved that (ho bottl'd complete the footpath providing that the eon tractors will give terms, and that Mr. Row get quotations fur completing Reach Road, A vote of thanks was accorded to Mi'. Row for his assistance. PERSONAL. Alt*. A. A. Middiediteh has been elected a member of the Town Board in place of Mr. J. Bourke. A serious accident happened on Saturday to AJiss Seed, a school teacher pit Ngutuwera, when her horse bolted pi ml she was thrown, suffering a broken leg. She was taken to the Patea Hospital, where the limb was set and she is progressing well.