OVER THE RANGE.

Manawatu Times, Volume XLIII, Issue 1585, 10 June 1920, Page 3

OVER THE RANGE.

DANNEVIRKE DOINGS. College Street (Palmerston North) hockey team (men) beat the local team yesterday afternoon by five goals to one. The game was a good fast one, on a rough, ground. Mrs Sarah Drinkwater, 71, mother of fifteen children, died early on Wed--1 nesday morning. She was a very old I and esteemed resident of the town, j Several of the family reside here, and others in various parts of the DominI ion Her husband died eleven years I ago. | The movement to establish a girls 1 hostel has advanced another stage, it is. proposed to take over the private boarding-house known as “The Lawn.” It contains 24 rooms, and will -accommodate SO, boarders. The owner, Mrs McAlister, has offered the goodwill and furniture for £6OO. The promoters have also the right of purchase at £2OOO. Cyril Leahy, arrested here on a charge of theft at Pahiatua, was remanded by local Justices to the latter town. Average attendance at Ti Papakuku School is 70.4, Si) per cent, of roll number. The winner of tthe dux gold medal was Master R. Bolstad. A bonus of £3O has been voted to Mr* Cuthbertson, secretary of the North Island Dog Trials Association. Ills honorarium has been fixed at £SO per annum, and expenses in attending championship meetings. ft is costing the Postal Department 3d to deliver each letter along the Waione-Waimiro mail route. The service, even at that price, is only a partial one. The wedding took place at Hastings of Miss K. Mulholland, of Norsewood, and Mr V, H. Collelo, of Hastings. Dannevirke county credit balance aj 31st March. 1920, was £9195, a difference of £2266 less than for the similar period of 1919. For the ensuing year the general rate will be lid in some ridings, and lid in others. Mr Wm. Davies, aged 54, whose relatives live at Matamau, died this week at Aramoana, East Coast. PAHIATUA PARS. After a lively discussion, the proposal to substitute a subscription of 10/ and’ £1 in lieu of a graduated scale, ; was deferred by the Farmers' Union till next meeting. One speaker declared that as regards money, the Pahiatua district was the most conservative in New Zealand. Farmers here appear reluctant to pay on a gradu- j ated scale of subscription. Harry Grant, soldier-settler at Mataikona (Pongoroa) was out shooting rabbits on his sectic'’ A charge of shot entered his right arm, and the limb was amputated. The installation of many milking machines is held up because no cement is available locally. Mr Massey has oeen advised of the position.