NOTES.
The vital statistics for Feilding for October are as follow, the figures for the corresponding month last year be-
ing shown in parentheses:—Births, 7 (22) ; deaths, 7 (8); marriages, 6 (3). The Feilding Machine Gun Platoon left for camp on the Hokowhitu rifle range this morning where they will join the Palmerston North infantry platoon. Notice was received by the Feilding Borough Council yesterday that members of the Main Highways Board would he visiting the town on December 1 and would meet the council to discuss matters in connection with main highways in the borough. The Feilding Boy Scouts who are leaving in about seven weeks’ time for the Melbourne Centenary Jamboree are concentrating on Maori lore and are learning laakas, stick games, mat-mak-ing and weapon-carving, the object being to make the activities of the New Zealand contingent of scouts centre
round Maori games, customs and curios.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LIV, Issue 289, 3 November 1934, Page 4
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