HOROWHENUA COUNTY

Manawatu Standard, Volume LI, Issue 118, 20 April 1931, Page 2

HOROWHENUA COUNTY

(From Our Own Correspondent. OTAKI, April 15. In reviewing tho work of the „.°F ou t ® c Council during its two years of office th Mayor, at-last night's council meeting, -am the policy of rig d economy bad occn strictly 1 enforced. ° Tho debit balance m tho general account on April 1, » £1037 2s lid, and this amount had been reduced to £9B as at April 1, 1929 On 0 half of the ratepayers ho cx PFP?^ d _ i thanks to tho councillors for thier S°°P work and especially to Cr T a 'mf r wu. services on the works committc i. Mavor also expressed the ratepayers appreciation of tho services rendered by Morse during his many years of service expressed his sincere regrets that borough was losing him, and a motion ■ duly recorded in the minutes in rccogn of those good services. , Members of the Otaki Bowling Club gathered on the green yesterday, afternoon bid farewell to Mr H. J. Pcarso, onei ot tho club’s most popular members, the Mavor (Mr Atmore) made a presentation. OTAKI, April 17. Chaunccv Morris, the young man who died as the result of injuries sustained through a fall from a motor-cycle at Otaki, was 26 years of age. An inquest was opened last evening but on the application of tho police was adjourned sine die alter evidence of identification had been grv 11 Tho deceased was on his way to spend a holiday in Otaki when he met with tho accident. Ho was a popular young- irian and for some time worked at the local post of Mr T. N Benge, of Te Kuiti, has been appointed postmaster in Otaki in place o Mr Pearsc, who has retired on superannuatl*At the Magistrate’s Court yesterday a young man named Ashton_ Cootcs was sentenced to a month’s imprisonment tor tne theft of a fishing net. For being » llc g a “Y on licensed premises John Miller was nnca £1 For speeding, several motorists were fined from £2 to £3, while several cvchsts without lights were fined ss, costs lUs.