DISTRICT NEWS

Wairarapa Age, 21 March 1929, Page 4

DISTRICT NEWS

SOUTH WAIRARAPA ITEMS. * The Age ’ ’ Sipecial.) ’ The following will represent the Cariterton Amateur Athletic Club at the [Country Clubs’ championwhip meeting (at Napier on Easter Monday: I(X> and 220 yards, P. Burgess; 120 yards hurdle®, B. Roberts; 50 and 100 yard®, ladies, Misses B. and G. Jackson; long (jump and high jump, B. Roberts, W. H. Roberts and M. l\.rry; hop. step (and jump, M. Perry; pole vault, B. and W. H. Roberts; puttnig the shot, M. Perry; throwing the javelin, B 'Roberts, M. Perry; throwing the discus, M. Perry; half-mile, one mile and .three mile cycling, A. J. Buckley. | The evening meeting of the Carter ton Amateur Athletic Club on Tuesday resulted os follows: Half-mile [cycle race, A. J. Buckley. 1; C. But[ler, 2. One mde cycle T. McKay, 1; lA. J. Bucklev. 2. Two mile mk: A. .1. BuNdcy. 1; T. M K: v. l'io yards • 'handicap: P. Burgess. 1; B. Hurley, 2. [(220 yards handicap: J. Denby, 1; J. ; Churchouse, 2. Plunket Society. The garden fete, held at Longwooo recently in aid of the FeotherstcMt branch of the Plunket Society, t j splendid success, the receipts to ; being £220 3® 6d, with several small L am corn ts yet to conic in. FEATHERSTON • (“The Age” 'Special.) ; Mr and Mrs Carl Fret ch ling, of Levin, are al present visiting Feather- ■ ston, where they are the gueats of Mr . and Mrs W. A. Churchill. Mrs H. Clark, Feathersto«n. -who ha® . been an inmate of the Greytown Hoa- ■ pital for the past two f <*eks, is now - making satisfactory progress toward* . recovery. Plunket Society. j A meeting of the Central Committee of the Plunket Society w held at the Featherston Plunket Rooms on Tuesday afternoon. Repnesentatives were present from Manin borough and Accounts amounting to £lO 18s 2d were passed. The question lof forming a boundary between Grey.(town and Featherston was left in the ; hands of Mesdames Q. Donald (Feathgenston), W. J. Martin (Martinibor|Ough) and J. F. Thompson (Gretown) /to confer and decade. A letter of ap i preciation was received from Nurse f Aitken for the present sent her and she j wished the society every prosperity. ] Nurse McGee waa recommended for . die position of daistrict nurse at a sal- ] ary of £252 per annum. i 7 MATTRICBVTLU!. WEST (“The Age” Special) - The ladies’ Hockey Club is holding j its annual meeting on Friday night. Mr Ken Clement has returned to /Dannevirke visiting his mother for a few day*. t! Miss Ivy Lemberg and Miss Madge e Larsen are spending a holiday in N&jPter. 1