Notes of the Day

Manawatu Times, Volume 70, Issue 58, 9 March 1945, Page 6

Notes of the Day

The Feilding Cricket Association’s draw for play this week-end is:—Combined v. High School B on No. 1 wicket; Old Boys v. High School A on No. 2 wicket.

Mr. G. C. Foster, of Auckland, who arrived in Feilding in 1874 as one of the band of original settlers, was a visitor to Feilding yesterday. Now retired he saw over 40 years’ service with the Bailway Department. Speed and loads are now limited over the Denbigh Street bridge which is the last of the wooden bridges in Feilding. The structure is to be inspected as to its probable life and meantime repairs to the decking have been carried out. Patriotic committees throughout the Feilding Patriotic Zone are about to commence the duty of raising the quota for the current patriotic year which amounts to £12,870 compared with £15,480 asked for last year. Of this sum Feilding is asked to provide £2BBO compared with £3600 required last year and it is anticipated that this sum will be readily forthcoming. Feilding abattoir statistics for February, together with those for the same month last year given in parenthesis, I were:—Cattle, 86 (122); shdep, 458 (571); lambs, 46 (29); pigs, 2562 (2419); vealers, 1 (1); bobby calf, 1 (1). Fees amounted to £363 15s Id compared with £364 0s 2d. For the extended abattoir district the ligures were:— Sheep,* 144 (149); lambs, 280 (312); cattle, 19 (19). Fees amounted to [ £l2 18s 2d compared with £l3 18s 3d. I

There was an excellent attendance of members and visitors at the first meeting of the year of the Feilding branch of the British Music Society held in the Community Centre, where the floral decorations were carried out in bowls and baskets of beautiful gladioli and dahlias in brilliant colours. The programme comprised miscellaneous items, the pianoforte group being represented by Mesdames Dixon, Jenkins and Miss Humphrey, while the vocalists were Mrs. Hare, Miss Hastie and Messrs. Kowe and Williamson, and the strings were presented by Mesdames Farmer, Rowe and Miss Hausmann. The accompanists were Mesdames Sandilands and Rowe, and Misses Matheson and Whitehead.

Three cases of scarlet fever were reported in Feilding last month. Mr. S. Street, of the Feilding staff of the New Zealand Farmers’ Co.-op. Distributing Co. Ltd., has been appointed manager of the firm’s Taihape branch and will take up his new duties at the end of this month. Membership of the Feilding Municipal Library continues to grow. The uumber now totals 918 and during January 3465 books were changed making a daily average oi 44.4. Receipts in the rental section for the month amounted to £23 Is 9d. At last night’s meeting of the Feilding Borough Council the Mayor (Mr. T. L. Seddon) leferred to rhe passing of Mrs. Fraser end said that a tolegram of sympathy on behalf of the citizens had been sent to the Prime Minister. In paying tribute to her memory Mr. Seddon sail that thcie was no doubt that Mrs Frjvspf’s many activities, particularly in relation to social work, had had a widespread influence on the people of New Zealand.