RICCARTON WHISPERS.
(From Otjk Coriikspontont.)
Wharenui School p*cnic on the raceCourse.
■Council will he able to float the south area loan on very favourable terms. Holliwell has the work well in hand.
The members of the Lower Riccarton unit of the Citizens' Defence Corps who are stoadiy increasing in numbers,, para-do every \\ educHhiy evening at /.,'X) at the "Park gates, opposite Riccarton Hotel. A-section of this xinit meets voluntarily on Saturday evenings at 7.30 at "the corner of "Riccarton Road and Rotherham Street, for tho purpose of a little extra drill. . Councillor Waddell and family are residing at. Xew Brighton until after Christmas.
Mr G. "Witty is again the member for Riccarton. >le has received many wires and letters congratulating him on ids success. One feature of the election was the friendly spirit in which it was fought.
Mr J. A. M'Gullough arrived homo from Dune din. on Wednesday, and will be engaged on Arbitration Court business until after Christmas.
The Wharenui swimming -baths were cleaned out this afternoon. Mr Burgess, of Division Street, carried out the pumping with his traction engine free of charge.
The Wharenui School breaks up- for the Christmas holidays on Wednesday, till Monday, February 1.
The Swimming Club held its first committee meeting in the school-on Thursday evening.
Complaints have been received by the Borough Council about-the destruction of condemned horses in a certain'paddock on Sunday mornings.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 1125, 19 December 1914, Page 11
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