CARTERTON.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 618, 22 September 1909, Page 10

CARTERTON.

The Carterton Scbool Committee met on Monday night, Mr. John Brown presiding, The statement of finances showed credits as under: —General account, .£ll 9s. lid.; technical account, £1 19s:; agricultural account, 3s. lid. The committee set up to deal with the question of a minature' rifle range reported that they had not yet completed their scheme. Hγ.. A. W. Burns (headmaster) reported a roll return as follows:—Primary department, 245, average attendance 228; secondary department 31, average attendance 30. -Ho. also reported that the-board's inspectors. had visited the school during the month. An application for Carterton to he made a centre tor Civil Service Examination having been; declined,, a resolution was passed urging tho board to recommend that the request receive further consideration. ■. . .'■'.'. ■ ' Miss Monerieff. left Clareyillo .on. Tuesday, en route for America, where she will reside with a relative'.'.. A. number, of friends assembled at the'station to bid her bon .voyage. Bro. F. E. Tyler," C.R., ■ presided at the quarterly meeting of the Beohabite Lodge on Monday ovening, when one, member notified from Poverty Bay as being "unable to follow his employment through an injury to his hand, .Ouo new member was proposed. , A communication was received from the • Masterton Tent, offering to. pay a fraternal visit, and it was decided to offer an invitation for October 11. It was decided to amalgamate two small funds, aud transfer same, from the general fund, to tho Post. Office Savings Bank, Bros.. T. W. Foster, aud W\ H. Partridge being' appointed trustees. ■ ' -■ - .■.,:. On Monday afternoon a confirmation service was held' at St. Mark's Church for. the purpose of confirming ten candidates Vfrbm tho Hikurangi College, Clareville. Bishop- Wallis j conducted the ceremony. . ■' Mr. C. Morgan, of Dalefiold, had the misfortune to , lose a'valuablq Ayrshire, heifer on Sunday; .The animal was .exceptionally"well bred. • '■• f: ■'.■ -' ' At a, meeting, of Totara Lodge, U.A.0.D., on Monday-evening, four new members.were proposed, and : two : initiated. The rules .as amended by tho last biennial conference wore received from the. secretary.- of, the 'Grand Lodge. Receipts for the evoning were Bs, , ' ' Bd. and disbursements £& 18s. A game in tho card tourney was.-'afterwards played against the Foresters, who won by 32 "games to 31. Mr. J..-B. Moodio, manager of MesSTS. Dalgety and. Company's Masterton branch was entertained on Monday ovening by a number of friends at a complimentary. dinner at the Marquis Hotel, oh the occasion of the eve of his marriage. Mr. W. C. Buchanan,, M.P., occupied tho chair. ■ , ~,--.. ...;: ; ;.-levin, ._ '_ The opening of tho boating season on Horowhenua- Lake has been. postponed until October 6, owing to the bad weather. Tho Levin Fire Brigade have asked tho Borough Council to subsidise tho drawings'at the recent bazaar £ for £. This subsidy was granted on Monday night. . '.'... :■.■-.- ■ Mr. Hugh Hall, who was married last: week, has been presented with a silver-mounted onk liqueur stand by . the directors of •■'thi! Horowhenua Publishing Company, and with a i pair of carvor rests by the'staff of'the "Chronicle." ■ . ■■■''■: ~' ' . ■-,_ ■:• /-;■, FRATREItRTON. ' ■ The Featherston Men's Hockey Club play the Masterton' W.K.C'.A. hero on' Thursday, afternoon. . ■.' ■~' ■.'■'--' Lambing is well, forward in this district There are some very good percentages on, tho various stations and farms, and the mortality has been fairly low. : The grass is coming away quickly under the influence of genia! weather, and there is. every. pVosoect of a good season.' The Paka Koura Ladies.' Hockey Club.hold their "annual, dance in tho Town Hall next Thursday evening. . ;.. - ."'...-