HAWERA NEWS.

Taranaki Daily News, 2 January 1926, Page 13

HAWERA NEWS.

NEW YEAR'S EVE. .lAIN SPOILS FESTIVITIES. (From Our Own Reporter.) Hawera, Jan. I. New Years Eve passed off very quietly in Hawera, the outdoor festivities usual to the occasion being dampened by a heavy fall of rain during the evening. A fair number of people visited the town during the day, and early in tlie evening the streets were crowded. The Hawera Municipal and Highland Pipe Bands played sprightly music, and the crowd was just beginning to enjoy itself when, shortly after 8 o’clock, steady rain began to fall. The rain continued for about two hours without ceasing, and tlie people soon began to drift away. Until midnight a fair number of ardt nt spirits kept watch on the streets, the music of the bands, “throw-downs,” trumpets and hooters keeping up a constant din. As the mdnght hour marked the end of the old year and the beginning of the new, a number of locomotive whistles in the railway yards joined in with every noise-producing instrument in the town to welcome the dawning of 1926. VITAL STATISTICS. Ilawera’s population was augmented by the birth of 275 children during the year just closed, while during the .same period exactly 100 people were removed by the hand of death. Seventy-three couples registered their marriage vows. Compared with the year 1024, births decreased by 3, deaths decreased by 2, and marriages increased by 6. GENERAL. During the month of December the statistics were, the figures for the corresponding mouth of the previous year being given in parentheses: Births 16 (IS), deaths 10 (9), marriages 6 (7). Mr. A. K. Fyson, of the Farmers’ Co-op. Society, Hawera, has been appointed secretary of the Melrose, Meremere and Ararata dairy companies in succession to Mr. T. J. Salmon, who has joined the firm of Newton King, Ltd., as the Hawera branch manager.