MASTERTON NOTES.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 924, 17 September 1910, Page 10

MASTERTON NOTES.

': (From . Our ■ Special Correspondent.) Mastcrton, September 10. A number of parents,''.'chiefly.'in.-'.the country, were fined 25.,' and • 7s. > costs, 1 ia the Magistrate's / Court this' morning. .oil charges of failing: to send' their children to; sohool for the - requisite number of; times- providod ; 'by law.- Mr. J. Dineen, truant , officer ,the Wellington Education Board, prosccuted. It-..is'.stated, that not; a few children in the ' district . arc; kept from school to .assist, their - parents,in dairying. '- | A Chinaman named Yeo Chang was mulcted ,in .55., and costs 75., this morning, for leaving a horse and cart unattended' in the. street: For riding a bicycle without, lights, William .Clayton was fined a similar "amount; .VThe Mastcrton bowling green is in splendid order, and bowling enthusiasts are looking forward• to '1 lie opening: of the season. ; • The Masterton branch of the Labour party hold a meeting last evening, when arrangements were made for, an address to be given by Mr. T. E. Taylor, M.P., on Monday evening., Miss 110ut,.'...0f Christchurch, will also be present. ; A number of [members of the Masterton Amateur Theatrical Society, motored through to Dannevirko on Thursday ovening j to be" present at; a perform'ance of "Les Cloches de Comvillo'.' by the Dannevirke Amateurs. . The members of tlio Post and Telegraph Hockey Club held .a most successful social last evening. About fifty couples- were present, ancl dancing was merrily indulged lin • until the small hours of the morning.. . :