DOWN THE LINE.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIII, Issue 1744, 19 February 1920, Page 7

DOWN THE LINE.

(From Our Own Correspondent.) OTAKI, Feb. 13,

The Otaki Bowling Club intend to bold a tournament on Saturday. Faster Monday and Tuesday (3rd, sth and 6th April). 'The cricket match, played at Otaki on Wednesday* between tho local team and Manakau, proved a fiasco, only a limited number of Otakiitos taking part. 'The scores were in favour of the visitors.

Mr Erie Williams, who has been acting as first wireless operator on the Wahine for some time, arrived by that vessel at Port Chalmers yesterday. At a meeting of tho committee of the Horowhenua Horticultural and Industrial Society judges were appointed for tho forthcoming autumn show, to be held on March 17, subject to their consent being obtained. The secretary rc|K)rtcd there was a very small credit balance in hand. M;s L. K. I mister was appointed in charge o. the sweets stall for the show, and Mrs Hodgson appointed to supervise tho supper rooms.

OTAKI, Feb. 17. During the 'past week no cases of influenza have been reported locally. A local dairyman’s cheque for last month totalled over £4OO Not bad as - the result j of ICO cows of mixed sorts ! Messrs Booth and Co., sawmillers, may. lat no distant date, erect a sawmill at Otaki Gorge. 1 The death has occurred at Gisborne of Mr Gilligan. brother to Nurse. Gilligan, of Otaki.

Mrs F. W. Cornish is at present an inmate of the Palmerston North Hospital, while Mr Cornish is incapacitated with an injured knee, due to a kick from a horse. Tho Otaki bowlers on Saturday easily de- ' leafed Lyall Bay-—134 to 79 points. Mrs P. A. 1). Mickle narrowly escaped drowning at Manakau yesterday. She got beyond her depth and had it not been lor a lad named Hector Scholes would have been drowned. Mrs Mickle is none the worse for her misadventure. I Members of the Wellington City Council yesterday visited Otaki, with a view of inspecting' the Raimi Dairv Company’s factory, which the Council hit* taken over They wore delighted with their project, and now will seriously consider the advisability of securing a municipal farm.