COUNTRY NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LII, Issue 16008, 28 August 1915, Page 4

COUNTRY NEWS.

[from ocr own mr!SEsroxx>Ens,j AERO A. BOWLING fLCK meeting. . 1 nr. eleventh Annual meeting of thfi Paeroa I'.- v line Club r. as held on Saturday last. Twenty-one members were prei sent, including the president. Mr. J. JJ. I Harris. The iir.airial position of tiva '3v I club showed a credit of £17 16s 2d. Tha ' ' i following "ffiieis were elected Patron i?. j Mr. \V. McWatters ; president, Mr. m! JJ. Harris, re-elected : vice-president*, jf| ! Messrs. \Y. H. Taylor, re-elected, and G. .1I Eviti : secretary and treasurer, Mr. D, :v j Dunloji; seie-tor. Mr. ( S. Evitt, re- j | elected ; committee. Messrs. Towers, Wil--1 son, Deen, Clews. and Pinder: delegates ? ' j to South Auckland ( entre. Messrs M. J j Harris and D. Dui.iop : delegate to Gold- I fields Stars committee. Mr. D. Dtmlop; auditor. Mr. A. H. Wilson: green super-. : ' intendent, Mr. W. H. Hamilton. .11.; A most successful social was held hi ?' Paeroa 011 Friday night, the occasion being a send-off to Lieutenants Parry and Silcock, Sergt. Poland, Corporal Brenan, | Privates Neels. Walmslev, and Rob- < ' j bins, who are shortly to leave for the i front with the seventh reinforcements. ; ! Several speeches were delivered by in- V' i fluential residents, including Mr. Poland," f j the member for the district, and Mr. W. ,jf J. Towers. Mayor of Paeroa. In con- ' j junction with the farewell a public recep- v V i tion was given to one of Paeroa's returned soldiers, Sergeant-Major Robert- - son. who was wounded during the first ' landing at Oallipoli. Each of the departing soldiers was presented with & set'. lof military hair brushes and an electrio | torch, and Sergeant-Major Robertson ie-?l eeived a handsome Morris chair given 0£?? | behalf of the people of Paeroa. *■:$-* The Borough Council on Thursday nijliS-' adjourned its meeting for ah hour to bid ©if farewell to Sergeant Lomas and Private • McCarthy. Paeroa men of the seventh reffiifF* forcements. On behalf of the burgesses the Mayor made a presentation to eadterl man. |gp:f At the Borough Council meeting leare ■was granted to the Agriculture Society to?"' erect saleyards adjacent to the recreation I ground. A formal resolution was carried embodying authority for the council to bar-? row up to £900 from the Bank of TSet), Zealand on the security of the estimated return of revenue for the present TOT.-' - A proposal for the council to take ova ;"v' the control of the local fire bridgade *aj. j' deferred.