MASTERTON NOTES.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 948, 15 October 1910, Page 3

MASTERTON NOTES.

"(By, Comspondeirt,)

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The Masterton Homing. Pigeon Club flow a race from -Blenheim "on Thursday.- Over sixty competed, the race being won by Mr.' W. Hoar's Beetemall in the record time of 2hrs. lOmin. Mr. Dixon's Waipou was second; and Mr. F. B. Rosson's Brick, third. :' The' project to start a-Natives' Nursing Home in-theWairarapa is meeting with considerable support. The Natives themselves _hav£ already'■ contributed £100, besides giving a : section of land. . . Reports from_ the Forty-Mile Bush' state that the rivers.are in high flood, much lpw-lying ! land' being .pubmerged. . : Several professional, runners this son havo applied for reinstatement as amateurs, r. - Z? : W'. ■ 3 V;: l ' ■ . The Masterton School Coramittco lias suggested that, the .day :on .which;.:the Navy.: League . school "excursion!: to Wellington is to. be held '• should be a " Wednesday. _ It was decided that, the'work, of erecting the miniature- rifle range. >be gone oh with as soon, as the Educa-, tion Board's permission has' been 'obtained. ' \-v;

A. native of named Cody, has ■ been admitted to the Masterton Hospital suffering from' a fractured leg. . . A very .successful. experiment . was hold at -To Whiti with a . new explosive invented by Mr. H* Moorhouse, of Masterton^and:formerly of 'Wellington. Messrs.- J. 0. Bidwill, I F. C. Maunsoll, H. J. Dagg, D. M'Gregor, sen., H. C. Williams, H. Holmes, D. J. Cameron, and 0. J;: Taylor..have..made donations to the funds of theNbrtiWai.rarapa Rifle .Association. .