FOXTON.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 72, 22 February 1940, Page 8

FOXTON.

- o (From Our Own Correspondent.) FOXTON, Feb. 21 Miss Verna Sutton, who lias been on holiday in Napier and Wellington, lias returned home. Mrs R. Titcombe, of Cook Street, who was involved in a motor collision last week and received cuts about the head necessitating the inscition of several stitches, is making good progress towards recovery. Air S. I. A\ alden resumed dutv at I lie Post Office on Alonday after being absent on sick leave Mrs M. K. Perreau baa returned after an extended visit to her daughter, All's Campbell, of Auckland. Mr T. H. Wallbutton, an employee at Messrs A. Ross. Rough and Co.'s mill, met with a painful injury this morning. His coat sleeve became entangled in the spindle of the stripper he was feeding and be suffered bruises and contusions to tho left forearm, necessitating medical attention. The friends of Air and Airs J. Falconer, of Russell Street, will regret to learn that their little daughter. Madge, is an inmate of the Palmerston North Hospital. When riding along Main Street, on Sunday afternoon the child was thrown over the handle-bars of her bicycle by the wind, which was particularly boisterous, and she sustained severe concussion. Two teams from the local Bowling Club will visit Shannon on Saturday to participate in Triangular Shield matches. They wifi be as follow: Head. Newth. Hinds, Woods (skip); Ilaydock, llavdock, Dayman, J. Grant (skip). Teams to play on the local green. will be as fob. low: Robinson, McKnight, lleppner, 'Trueman (skip); Robson. Huntley, Christie, Maltar (skip). In the pairs semifinals, Ilaydock and Ilaydock meet Trueman and Robinson and Grant and Mattar meet Dayman and Robson. At a meeting of the (’firstmas Cfieer Committee tho secretary (Air 11. D. Dawson) submitted a balance-sheet covering the 1939 activities, which disclosed a slight credit balance.