COUNTRY NEWS.

Colonist, Volume LIV, Issue 13329, 1 February 1912, Page 4

COUNTRY NEWS.

MOTUEKA

(From Our Own Correspondent.)

A meeting of tho Citizens' Fire I:retention Committee was iiekl on Tsiesday evening, and it was decided \) make a canvass of the residents in tV< proiwsed area and collect the •C'lOO required by, the Council, in or(I ->r to establish a fire-fighting plant. T.'ie Borough's offer of £300 is a gen-pi-ous one, and it is to he sincerely hoped that before long we will be in the position of at least limiting the ravages of a serious outbreak of fire i:i the main street.

At a recent meeting of the Fruitmowers' Union, Mr. F. W. Kirk ".rote stating that a South American buyer would be in the district shortly prepared to buy 12.000 cases of apples. Messrs Moritzson and Co., of Onnedin, wrote asking for a supply <'■( a simi'ar quantity. It is thus evident that the local supply of this fruit v. ill bo in great demand this season.

Afr. 11. H. Williams, the Colombo !i!:;nager of Jiossrs Dodwell and Co., London, who was rcoLMitly arrested on :i charge of breach of tnist in respect oi' sums amounting roughly, to ■U 4,500, has pleaded guilty,'and has I','on sentenced to seven'vonrs' imprisonment.

Attractive locality—lo minutes from Central Trafalgar Street— Sunnyside Estate. Sections now offering. Plan nt F. and D. Edwards.*