COUNTRY NEWS.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVI, Issue 16992, 20 October 1915, Page 8

COUNTRY NEWS.

[From Our Correspondents^

WAIAU. On Friday evening tho Waiau .Athletic Club held their annual meeting. Mr J. T. M’Brydo presided. The bal-ance-sheet, showing a credit of £2O, was adopted. Messrs IX Rutherford and G. Fulton were elected patrons, Mr R. J. Lewis secretary, and the Rev J. H. Thompson treasurer. After discussion it tfas decided not to hold the usual sports this season, but to donate £lO to the garden fete to be held at Lyndon, and members pledged themselves to work for the success of the function. All members joining the Reinforcements were made life members of the club. A motion of sympathy was passed to the relatives of those fallen or wounded at the front.^ Previous to leaving Waiau to join the Ninth Reinforcements, Mr H. A. Nielson handed the local committee of tko Red Cross Funds £3 as a mark of appreciation of the establishment of a Ked Cross Hospital at Hanmer Springs for the relief of wounded soldiers.

A meeting of the Waiau Saleyards Company was held on Saturday afternoon. After a discussion on the several sites offered and the merits and demerits of the question of building the yards on the north or south side of the river, the matter ended by the secretary and provisional directors resigning in a body. Afterwards those farmers favouring the railway side of the river met and decided to call a public ■''"g very shortly to go on with the matter.