GREYTOWN
•i Mr. G. H. Cunningham, of the Horticultural Division, > will deliver an address at a meeting of the Greytown Fruitgrowers' Association on Monday evening on the diseases of fruit trees and their treatment.
The Greytown ladies will provide afternoon tea at tho Featherston Military Hospital on Thursday next. The annual meeting of tho South Wairarapa Trotting Club takes place on November 20. A number of members of the Featherston Sporting Club visited the South Wairarapa Working Men's Club on Thursday evening,, and indulged in biliards, snooker, and cards.
A special meeting of the Greytown Borough Council was held on Wednesday night, wjien an exhaustive report by Mr. J. W. Blackman on the local gasworks was read and considered. The roport will come up again for further consideration at a future meeting.
An unfortunate accident happened to Mr. Wallace Wiggins, at Papawai on Thursday afternoon. Ho was driving two horses attached to a waggon with* a heavy, load of timber, and when near Mr. Morgan's, the horses stopped on a sharp pinch of the road, with ,the result that the waggon commenced to run backwards, and finally capsized. One horse was badly cut, and one wheel of the waggon smashed, but the driver escaped injury—with the exception of a few* abrasions of the skin. ! * /
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Wairarapa Age, 15 November 1919, Page 5
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