Hutt Valley —Weekly Mews Letter

New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12404, 25 March 1926, Page 9

Hutt Valley —Weekly Mews Letter

PETONE BOWLING The last series of President's Cup matches between blie Petone and Lower Hutt clubs was played last Saturday, and resultol in the cup being won by the Petone Club for this year by a large majority of points. Congratulations to the Petone Club on their victory. SUNDAY SCHOOL ANNIVERSARY The Petone Methodist Sunday School celebrated their anniversary services last Sunday with three services, the preachers being at 11 a.m., Rev. E. S. Emmett; 2.45 p.m., Rev. Lawrence; and at 7 p.m. the Rev. Lochore. At the evening service the church was crowded, and the singing of the children, under Mr E. Ackroyd, assisted by a large orchestra, was the feature of the services. , SUCCESSFUL OARSMEN The Petone Club was represented at the Wanganui regatta on Saturday and was successful in winning the maiden (lOst) fours race. This crew is the first to win a race on the Wanganui for the local club. THE “SOCCER” CODE The annual meeting of the Petone Football Association Club was held at Petone this week. The report and balance-sheet, which was read and adopted, showed the chib to be in a very flourishing condition, and everything points to a successful season. It was decided to enter teams for all: grades this season. STREET PAVING Some time ago the Borough Council discussed with its engineer the question of street paving. The counoil decided to experiment with “Laycold,” and the first batch of streets to pe paved with this mixture has been started. Mi A. A. Nattrass, an old Petone boy and representing Laycold, Ltd., is supervising the work. PERSONAL Miss Avison, of Petone. has left for a trip to Sydney, Melbourne, and Brisbane. The many friends of Mr MoCullough, of Petone, will be pleased to know that he is making a good recovery from a serious illness. FIRE BRIGADES’ CONFERENCE The conference of the United Districts Fire Brigades’ Association will bo held in Petone during Easter, and the local brigade is making all arrangements for the delegates to have x thoroughly, good time. The Mayor and councillors are tendering the brigades a civic reception at 10.15 a.m. on Easter Saturday morning.

LOWER HUTT PERSONAL ~ Mr E. Riddiford baß returned from his trip to England. ROADS The contractors have commenced- on Cuba street, part of the suburban ’bus route, and are preparing the road surface for bitumen sealing. BOWLS The annual president’s cup matches between Lower Hutt and Petone Bowling Clubs were completed last Saturday. Petone won the cup for this season by a substantial number of points over the three matches. SWIMMING BATHS Since the formal opening last Saturday, the baths have been well patronised, no fewer than 317 persons paying for admission on Sunday morning between the hours of. 6 a.m. and 10.30 a.m. THE GALA lhe Hutt residents are being kept fully alive by the activities of the vari ous queen committees, dances, street concerts and numerous other methods of extracting money from the public purse being employed. Friday night in* the main street presented all the appearances of a travelling circus, a brass band, Scotch pipers, concert party, ana revellers in fancy dress parading the street. On Friday next, a beauty competition will be held in aid of the funds of the municipal queen candidate. UPPER HUTT ” PERSONAL ’ Mr L. M. Naylor, who has been visiting the Dunedin Exhibition, has returned to Upper Hutt. Mr and Mrs Sharp, of Christohilrcli, who have been staying with their daughter, Mrs A. J. Harper, of Upper Hutt, have returned to Christchurch. FIRES The heavy total of fires in this district in recent weeks was further increased on Monday night, when a house situated at Gower road. Trenthnm, ocoupied by A. L. Cloake, and owned by Mr Jacob Geange, of Upper Hutt, was totally destroyed by fire. Mr Cloake is a heavy loser, as practically the whole of the contents of the building were lost. BOWLS A rink from the Upper Hutt Club played a friendly match with a strong rink of Hataitai and Seatoun players at Seatoun during the week-end, and liter a very hard game, Upper Hutt won by 1 point. A rink from Hataitai visited Upper Hutt on Wednesday last as challengers for the “Hill Pins,” which were held by the local club. The Hataitai rink was a very strong one. and had no difficulty in beating ..the Upper Hutt players, who were without the services of Naylor. WEDDING HENRY—WUNIB ALE. A very pretty wedding of unusual interest was celebrated at St. David’s Church, Upper Hutt, yesterday afternoon, the Rev. J. Holmes officiating, when Miss Eileen Wunibald, only daughter of Air and Airs J. Wunibald, of Upper Hutt, was married to Air

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Francis John Henry, youngest son of Mrs Annie Henry, of Ashburton, and tho late Mr Henry R. Henry. The bride, who was given away by her father, wore a white satin underdress with georgette sleeves and overdress trimmed with beads and sequins, with veil of silk tulle beautifully worked, and'silver brocaded shoes. The chief bridesmaid was Miss Rona Benge, and k Miss Kathleen Howling was second bridesmaid, the attendants being Misses Mona and Nattie Heberlev, cousins of the bride, and the flower girls Misses Myra Geange and Jean Judd. The luidesmaids’ aresses were of white ciepe de chine with accordion-pleated georgette aprons, and silver lace trimmings and headband of silver leaves. The attendants wore ‘‘Early Victorian” dresses of crepe de chine. Mrs-Wuni-bald, mother of the bride, wore a frock of mole satin-faced marocain and mole marabout, with hat of navy blue and mole marocain. Mrs Henry, mother of the bridegroom, wore a coat-frock of fawn gabardine with braid trimming and black hat. Mr It. Mackinnon, of Wanganui, was best man, and Mr W Pritchard, of Wellington, was groomsman. The bridegroom’s present to the bride was a beautiful velour coat trimmed with fur, and the present of the bride to the bridegroom was a gold signet ring. The present to the chief bridesmaid was a gold watch, and to the second bridesmaid a string of pearls, gold armlets to the attendants, and for the flower girls gold brooches. As the bride came down the aisle after the ceremony she was presented with a silver horseshoe by Miss L. Lowry. A reception was’ held at the Independent Hall, Upper Hutt, and was followed •by a dance in the evening, about 150 guests being present. Mr and Mrs Henry left} for Dunedin, where the honeymoon is to be spent.