NEWS FROM COUNTRY DISTRICTS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 12853, 29 April 1905, Page 7

NEWS FROM COUNTRY DISTRICTS.

[FROM OUR OWN COKREarONUE.TI'S.j TE AWAMUTU. Ms. AMBURT mot, the suppliers to his creamery in the Town Hall oh Thursday evening. Close on 40 settlers were present. Mr. Ainbury announced that the suppliers would receive BJd per lb for the past season and 9d for April and May and lOd for the June month. He had secured some 10 acres of land at Frankton Junction for the purpose of erecting a butter factory. TUAKAU. ON Easter Monday owning; the Rev. W. Gray Dixon delivered in the Public Hall hero his lecture on " Japan and the Japanese."' A good number were present, but owing to the very unfavourable weather many others were not able to be present. Those who were enjoyed an intellectual treat seldom available here, as although the lecturer spoke for upwards of two hours the time seemed all too short to the listeners. # KOTORUA. -At the Town Council meeting on Thursday it was announced that the Newspaper Proprietors' Association had donated £2 2s to the library as testifying their .appreciation of the courtesy shown to them when in Rotorun for their annual meeting. This is the second donation received for the library, as the Press Association, whoso annual meeting was also held here last month, handed a cheque to the town clerk for £3 3s. The bazaar in aid of the Presbyterian Church funds, held in the Assembly Hall on Wednesday, was a very successful, function, and the fund will be augmented to the extent of £60 after ail expenses are paid.