MASTERTON NOTES.
■ Or- .". . (By Tclegraph.-SDecial Correspondent.) Mastcrton; May 7. In the Magistrate's Court oil}. Pridny a ease was called on in which <i claim for maintenance was made against Henry Burling, a well-known settler of Alfredton in respect of his father Henry Burling, the centenarian of "Waikaiiae. On the application of counsel for defendant (who said Hint a satisfactory home for the centenarian would .bo provided at Ekotahuna) the venue in the case was changed to that centre. . <
The completed- census • returns show that the total population-of-the Wairarapa district' south' of Eketahuna (exclusive of boroughs) is 20,0-11. The movement, having for its object the formation of a co-operative auctioneering company by farmers,, has not met with the financial support expected, and it is probable that it will bo abandoned.
Local military men are not satisfied at the proposal to make Ekctah'jina tho headquarters of the,:'nlftuntffd"riflo battalion, and. it 'k .'expected' thai .'there will be a .considerable, defection, of'the older members in consequence. ■
Rain fell in Masterton on seventeen days during tho month of April, the total registration being 2iBB inches.
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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 11111, 8 May 1911, Page 6
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