WOODVILLE & DISTRICT

Manawatu Standard, Volume LXI, Issue 191, 15 July 1941, Page 6

WOODVILLE & DISTRICT

Traffic returns for the quarterly period just closed reveal that railway business at Woodvillc is being maintained at :i level which compares very favourably with that of the corresponding period last year. The main statistics are: —Passengers booked outwards, 5504; cattle, 5875; sheep, 30,320; goods (tonnage), 5291 ; waggons, shunted, 14,076. The Danncvirke Hunt has received a cheque for £2OO from an insurance company, being payment of a claim made four days ago under a Piuvius policy. This policy was taken out to cover the club against a loss caused by rain on.the occasion of their annual race meeting at Woodvillc.

Mrs \V. Calbraith, who has lately been undergoing hospital treatment, has returned to her homo. Miss Kingswcil, of Wellington, is the guest of Mrs C. Lagor. Sergeant W. G. Butler stales in. letters to Woodvillc friends that ho is now attached to the Long-Range Desert Force on service in the Middle East. Leaumg-Aircraits-man 11. R. Johnston is spending leave with his parente, Mr and Mrs R. R. Johnston. Mrs 11. A. lloulbrooko, an inmate of a private hospital at Pahiatua, is making satisfactory progress. Mrs J. M. Graham, Southern llawke's Bay provincial president of the W.D.F.U., and Mrs C. F .Barker, of Danncvirke, are attending the annual conference ol that organi sation in Wellington as .executive members. Mesdames Hume and Leach are attending the conference as representatives ol the Woodvillc branch.