MASTERTON NOTES.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 934, 29 September 1910, Page 8

MASTERTON NOTES.

(Prom Our Special Correspondent.) . Masterton, September 27.. The decision of, the Arbitration Court in the shearers' 'dispute was awaited with someiinterest byTshearers in the. Masterton district. The stands in most of the local- sheds: have already been: taken, up, the: employees having offered to ,pay the same ..wages as .last year, '' viz.,,- JJl.'per' hundred. It is probable, however, that since' the price ' lor : shearing lambs has beon jfixed- at 18s'.',Gd.per hundred, many of those who ha'd not intended shearing .their.: lambs will..decidol'.to.Shave'.,!them' (shorn::. This will make the position very 'interesting.. If shearers take their stand 'at vfii. per hundred, for grown sheep,..can they,'.refuse to. shear lambs at..the award wage,, viz., 18s. 6d. 'If ' they do,, will' they, be .guilty of. a,.strike?, Last, year and the year before,' the Wellington award,; by 6ome apparent oversight, made no . discrimination between sheep . and lambs., v:y : The' finals' in' the- senior and junior" championships in connection with, the Masterton Golf Club were . played on Saturday.Hast. In the former, F. H. El-', cote ""beat W. H. Bopth, 2 up and 1 to play,,and .in the latter H. E. Pavitt Deat.iJ. G- Bee, 12 up and 10 to play. , Another old;identity, of the, Masterton district, Mr. Alex. . Martin, ' passed away on; Sunday, at the age of eighty-two. Deceased,' who leaves a grown-up' family, of nine,'-had been ailing L for only' a short while.V For ; many , years he conducted farming operations'on the Opaki, "Mi\V. Noble Campbell has resigned his position as secretary -of the! Masterton' Amateur Athletic'-'Sooiety, : and has' been succeeded by Mr. A. C. Pragnell. . A-:very heavy. frost was experienced in jlastef'ton on . Sunday morning. Vegetable :gardens suffered very severely. : The'.following resolution was carried at the meeting of the Masterton branch of the Farmers'-Union on Saturday last:— t'hat it be a recommendation to the Dominion Conference' that in , the interests of the.'union the appointment of a competent: organiser be strongly urged, with: a view to increasing the membership and jbranches thrbughout the Dominion." Dr. "Rupert V. Hosking, who has for some-time past practising as a dentist in Fiji, arrived at' Auckland by the ;avu'a on Saturday, and should reach . /isterton to-night. A local paper draws attention to the coincidence that the. Avondale , Steeple.chnse; .was won on Saturday last by a horse: ; named "Antarctic,"which was rid-■ieu-'by a jockey named "Scott.' . '• ' That the price of lan,d in the Wairarapa continues fairly high was proved a week or two back, when offer of .£3S per acre, made by a Masterton resident for a 00-acre farm, which is only partially drained, was declined. . The Masterton branch of the Farmers' Union: decided at a meeting on Saturday last tliat a proposal of the.Dominion Conference that all auctioneers' and hotel license's' be devoted to hospital and charitable' aid purposes was too trivial to be .dealt with. ■ Masterton, Soptember 28..' One of the landmarks of Masterton— a residence attached to Rehall's old.millwas ': gutted by fire' last evening.The building, which had been constructed in the .'sixties, was almost as sound as on the ! day it was built, being, of heart, ottotara'. It was not insured. The Masterton Fire Brigade has decided to have a full discussion on the question of forming a Fire Brigade Association for Wairarapa. 8r0..,; B. Chapman . presidedat ..the quarterly -meeting of .the.-Hibernian Lodge last evening. Receipts for the evening totalled £32. At tho conclusion of tne lodge . meeting a "social" evening was hold. , i ' The gymnasium' in connection with the Masterton branch of tho Y.M.C.A. was | opened with a "social" gathering. Mr. | J. J. Virgo, from the Sydnev' Y-iT-C.A... I was among those presoni,