OTANE.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume IX, Issue 172, 7 July 1919, Page 7

OTANE.

j (Own Correspondent.) The Public School, wiucti has been closed tor tne past lortinght, owing to an epidemic of mumps and cliicken-pox, will re-open on Monday me 7th. Tne epidemic lias not been as severe as was at first anticipated, and it lias almost . disappeared now. , The secretary of the Peace Celebrai tions Committee reports the- following , iuitner donations: O. Carlson £2, it. • G. Williams £3 3/-, G. McKay £2 2/-, I Rev. G. Davidson 10, i The competition lor the Douglas Cup J which was won by the Otano Gun J Club last year was fired for last wfiek, ' during the rain storm. The Napier ; Gun v lub was the only other competitor .and the local ciub scored anomer I "‘*l. • Local poultry fanciers have rallied round the Hastings Poultry Show which : is to lie he.d next week, forty-seven entries having been sent Hom here. ! The poll taken by the Pataugata County Couifcil for a loan lor necessary ! works*did not meet with the favour of ! the local voters, fourteen voting • against it. The majority of ratepayers j did not take sumcient interest to ■ record their votes.