ALTON.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXII, Issue LXII, 6 May 1911, Page 6

ALTON.

'"LPBOM5 OUE OWN COfciBSPONDIfNTj •''; , The',AJton "f<3,Q^balle;r^ started the, J^all rolling,lon.Saturday,..'when tHey^played a friendly game' with Mahutahi.' During the, game Mr M. Ryan. ,m.et.,wifh- a accident; necessitating a visits to t!he,docjfcor, who on examining : him' Ifbund a shonlder hroken. . He is J ,,hbwejve i r. :,getting on'^as well.as can be^ ejcpecifed^ tiut it will mean.five or weeks'' r^t;for , the, : ;patae^it.' :' /.,,/ ''" '^..[.' : ■, \^''l: , " The several comment? op. the! "grading of Ball r<sSd that havie' .appeared iji ibh© Star seem to be very ."short-sighted.'. Sure-ly-;.every ratepayer k;npws:the .uselessness of metalling new. formations. T,his is what would happen if the work,was shelved. In a,bqufc a* • j«ar/Ah(a'.! in^tal .would be lo§t forever;,- Iristeaa.of.calling the councillors v h9.rd namesi" they should be, commended and- Jeii, £& finish jthe work, by so doing ensuring Va .hard foundation ,i or . the > meia.l. ', Certainly j tl^e .road will be a quagmir^e, jijii even so, it can; be no woi'se .than it ,haS;^en iftther. ,winters^ , anct we, ,can'^uS rer', that evil again to have a permanent good result.; If, a^s suggested, j public. meetings are called, 'there will "be a/ big "majority of (the .Alton; ratepayers in favor, of con-tinuing-the'.; grading, c ; '', :^Z ; , ■':'.':-. '■■>"> \ . r^On ,Tue§day. evening Mjr.Quipnetl gave; his 'first lesson;in/,tiie Wanganiii Educa.tioii^District ,pn * v^rinary science. I JTudging ;by;^ the ; t the' lecture one can oril^/.op^e''ih - :a l ]b'.'lie^wil)i. have a successful i^ri&u There"are more than, the ■:. rep^^ed;;njimber,- and: the Farmers' UnHMs':!is^b"be congratulated:coni >b»ing > -;t^-&sir k Vin;,t;lte7field to secure ; Mr services^ '