LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Pahiatua Herald, Volume XVIII, Issue 4538, 23 May 1913, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

An article reproduced from the Dannevirke News dealing with the railing of the YVellington East Coast district appears on page 6. Sporting, Dominion and eablo nows will l>e found on pages 3 and 7.

The Balia nee correspondent of the YVoodville Examiner dates 'hat the reserve on the Hall Block is being surveyed off into sections averaging 400 acres.

A football match between teams picked from Number 78 and 79 Companies of the Pahiatua Senior Cadets will be played at Pahiatua next Wednesday afternoon.

A severe frost was experieneid in f’ahiatua last night, small pools of water lieing converted into ice. The frost was followed by beautiful wtwther to-dav.

Although very late in the season for tlie fat stock market, no fewer than 30 trucks of fat sheep were despatched from the Pahiatua railway station yesterday. Tile sheep were forwarded to four different centres, namely, Feilding. YVaingawa Petone and Ngahauranga. This is a glowing tribute to the value of the Pahiatua district as a late autumn district.

Tile Fr iendly Societies card lourilMrnent wit- continued on YW.lne-dav evening. Tin' games playtd rcsulti-d as followsßand beat Foresters’ A, Druids defeat'd Forester-' B, and the Citizens won the game against the Fire Brigade. The position of the teams for tournament i>oints at the conclusion of the play was as billows: Band 5 points, Druids and Citizens 4 |Klin's each. Foresters’ A 3 points, Foresters’ It 2 points, and f ire Brigade uil. Play will be continued <>n Thu rad a y oven in g.

The quarterly summoned meeting of the Pahiatua Druids’ liodge was held last evening. Bro. J. Trezise, A.D., presided over a good attendance. Two members were reported on the sick list. Accoutr'd passed for payment total led £l4 ss, and the <-ontributions for the evening amounted to nearly £3O. The nomination of officers for the ensuing six months was procsedod writh as follows:—A.D., Bro. I). Wilton; V.A.D.. Bros. R. A. Burke and .1, McCormack; A.D.B.'s, Bros. R. Mathers, N. Hall, A. Newman and J. McCormick; V.A.D.B’s., Bros. Jacques I). TVoomoy, Mathers, Hall, A. Newman, McCormick; 1.0., Bros. G. G, Taylor and S. Coo; 0.G., linos. Taylor, Coe aml McCormick ; tresurer. Bro. A. (V is ford : minute secretary, Itro. .1, Swiggs. One member was admitted by clearance from am Austral in Lodge. The election and installation of officers will take place on next lodge night, Juno sth. It was decided to hold social evening at the conclusion of the installation <s're monies. Bros. J. Trozise, J. Swiggs and S. Coe being npjiointod a social committee.

WHY TS BANDER and SONS’ ®UCAYLPTI EXTRACT superior to any other Eucalyptus produced P Becansp it is always safe, reliable ami effective. A death woa recently report ad from the internal nse of one of the oonooctions which are now palmed off ns “Extracts,” and at an action a' law a swcii witness testified that ha suffered ‘he most, cruel irritation BANDER'S s TRACT.” Therefore insist upon the GENUINE BANDER and j* l *? pmRF VOLATILE EUCALYPTI EXTRACT.

A number of Territorials from the Pahiatua district left to-day to attend the casual camp at Oringi.

The latest subscriber to the Pahiatua telephone exchange is Mr H. Poarcey. His number is 117.

A number of the members of the Pahiatua -Masonic Lodge paid a fraternal visit to the Eketahuna Masonic Lodge last evening.

A social Will be held in ->t. Peter s Sunday .schoolroom this evening in. aid of St. Peter’s Church fund. An excellent programme has In on arrang»-<l. The social will be concluded with a da nee.

The Akitio County Council has received 54 replies from local bodies in connection with the proposal to inaugurate a local bodies’ mutual insurance scheme. Forty-two local bodies favour the scheme, three are the matter over for further ation, and 9 are against the fjJS* A^J.

The following referee- hare been appointed to control tile -onior football matches to-morrow - Hamua v. Ivon ini, Mr Palmer; Pahiatua r. Hukanui, Mr Bissett: Eketahuna v. Mangaitainoka, Mr YVilton. Notes on the games played last Saturday will be found on the back pages of this issue.

A meeting of the Pahiatua Central Branch of the New Zealand Farmers' Union will lie held in the Secretary s office to-morrow afternoon, vhen the remits to be brought before tie Provincial Conference at _Yfa-sb-rton next week will he discussed, and the Pahiatua delegate will be instructed bow to vote on the various remits.

“The YVaikuto district is very abort of grass,” was the remark made by a Pahiatua farmer to a Herald representative yesterday. The speaker •stated that he had been all through the YY’aikato during lie past month, and he was surprised at the .shortage of grass in that district. He also stated that he had boon shown a paddock where turnips had been down and afterwards fed off. No rain had fallen from the time of the sowing of the crop until after it had been eawn. off by stock. “The Pahiatua district is Hot hy any weans the worst in New Zealand, ’ he concluded, and alter my trip in the North 1 am more thai satbtied with my plot of land here.’’