GENERAL ITEMS.

Taranaki Daily News, 17 October 1927, Page 2

GENERAL ITEMS.

Tire Hawera Miniature Rifle Chib held its concluding euchre party for the season at the Savoy on Thursday, when a very pleasant evening was spent by an attendance of about 150 persons. The euchre prizes were won as follow: Ladies, Mrs. Ryan 1, Mrs. Davis 2, Miss Griffiths consolation; men, Mr. W. Rae I, Mr. Rudge 2, and Keys consolation. At the Patea Court on Friday, Alfred Reuben Buckland, of Petone, who was in arrears to the extent of £22 15s up to September 16 in respect of the maintenance of his two children, was sentenced to one month’s imprisonment with hard labour, the magistrate ordering that he be released on the payment of £lO off the arrears and the cost of his arrest, if any. A meeting of the committee of the Hawera Amateur Operatic Society, presided over by Dr. J, McGhle, was held on Friday evening. The financial position was reviewed. It ivas announced that there would be a small credit from the season. The suggestion of holding .a ball was considered, but was finally rejected.

The Hawera Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club has decided to hold its official opening on October 22, weather permitting. “We at the farm live well —at meal times at least —for we have no lack of milk and cream. People say a farmer’s life is a happy one. It is, sometimes, but when the pigs get out and tire cows are turned by a mistake into the turnips—well, I leave you to imagine the commotion that follows.” Such is the description of farm life in Taranaki given by a youthful correspondent 1 writing under the school children’s Empire publicity scheme. Representatives of the Hawera cricket bodies met the chairman of the parks and reserves committee, Mr. E. A. Pacey, and the borough engineer, Mr. J. Sturrock, at the cricket grounds on Friday, when the matter ’of providing better facilities for the watering of the wicket were considered, the suggestion being made that a pipe be laid from Waihi Road to the old water trough near the centre of the field. The matter was left in the hands of the borough engineer to bring down a report to the next' meeting of the council. In aid of the funds for the recentlyformed troop of Mokoia Girl Guides, the Mokoia ladies held a shop da, ’ in Hawera on Saturday, clearing a good sum from the sale of produce. The shop was in charge of Mesdames Quit (secretary), Richardson, Smeaton, Catchpole, Legge, 8. TidsweU, Neithc, Phillips, Lee, Cooper, and Miss Hawken, while Mrs. Huston, commissioner for South Taranaki, also gave assistance. Help and donations were given by other members of the committee and. by ladies of the district. The committee thank Mr. W. Marsh for carrying the goods for the shop frdm Mokoia.

That meetings of the south committee of the J.gmont National Park Board should rotate amongst the different centres at intervals was the opinion expressed by the chairman, Mr. E. Long, and members of the Waimate County Council on Thursday. If* was pointed out that most of the meetings were held in Eltham, with some few at Kaponga and Dawson Falls, yet the claims of Hawera and Manaia were not considered. Of the deputation from the south committee which waited on the Eltham County Council recently, not one was a county representative. Members were emphatic in their opinion that meetings should be held at Hawera and Manaia at intervals.