HOROWHENUA.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 200, 14 July 1936, Page 8

HOROWHENUA.

(From Our Oho Correspondent.) OTAKI, July 13. Mr lluia Iliggott leaves for England to-morrow, having secured a position on the Rauhine. Air iliggott expects to be away till the end of tlie year. pno young men, returning from Ulaki to Wellington on Saturday night, had a very narrow escape from being capsised down a deep gully on the top of tlie Akataiawas. They were pulling up at a had bend to allow another car to lia-ss when the bank cave way, causing: their car to drop a distance of two or three feet, loa\i,g it at angle of 45 degrees It was o:ny hv the strenuous efforts of the occupants ot both cars that the capsised vehicle was l At a meeting of the Otnki Borough Council a letter was received from Air R. Girling Butcher, (chief inspector of films) stating that plans in collection with the proposed theatre at Otaki hud been upP \ complimentary dinner to the winners of the Stringer Cup, annexed by tho hockey girls of the Otaki-I oriiua-R.n gitikei district at tbe Waitara tournament, wa-s given at Ilaukawa. Air J. Wiueeia (presulent of tho Hockey Federation) congratulated the girls' on their excellent coduct both on and off the held, .nd made pleasing reference to the play of all membors of the team. Mr Winecva extended thanks to_ Air Gillespie, as president of the Women s Hoc-key Associutii. i, and welcomed Mr Nicolson, president of the Alen’s Association, and referred to' as “the father ot I-lorowhenua ■.hockey.”