MASTERTON NOTES.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1240, 23 September 1911, Page 10

MASTERTON NOTES.

(From Our Special CorresnoraonlJ Masterton, September 22. Messrs. J. G. Boddingtoii and P. C. I.ewis have been re-elected unopposed na directors of the Masterton Permanent' Investment and Building Society. • A conference between representatives of the Mastwlon Borough and Comity Councils is to bo held to-morrow to de'al with t.ho difficulty which has arisen over/tho W.aipoua bridges. , Tho installation of tho electric light system, in tho Masterton Town Hall is to lx? celebrated by tho holding of a graud coheert on Wednesday evening next. ' The sawmilhng industry is almost a thing of tho past so far as tho Jfasterton district is concerned. Lust year only 400,000 cubic fort o£ limber was entered outwards fi<om the local railway, station; whilst 2,212,800 fvet was entered inwards. Considerable interest is being taken in the licensing question in tho Wairarapa electorato by tho Masterton branch of the Women's Christian Temperance Union. Miss Anderson Hughes is conducting a campaign under tho auspices of tlio union. ' ' ' The Tararua ranges' are again cappod with* snow, 'and severe frosts are nnticipated in consequence. I'lie superintendent of tho Masterton Fire Brigade has been instructed to furnish a detailed report to the I'iro Board uiion the whole o£ tho public buildings in the town. During tho past tlirco months only three alarms of firo have been sounded on the.Masterton fire bells,. Two of theso were for fires outsido the town, and o'no for a chimney lire. A silver ciin has been presented by Messrs. M'Grucr nnd Co. for competition amongst the local lioclrty clubs. The Wairarnpa Caledonian Society held tho final "tngWide" of the season last evening, when about ono huadrcd and fifty couples were present. In the Magistrate's Court this morning. It. E. Ilalford, publican, was charged with having supplied liquor for consumption in tho Masterton No-License district without having furnished to tho clerk of the Court a statement as,'to tho naturo and quantity of tile liquor, together with the address of the person to whom it was sold. -..On the first ehargo accused was fined 20s. and costs, and, on the eccond charge, 20s. without costs. Several Chinese traders were fined ■at the Magistrate's Court this morning tor breaches of the Shops and Offices Act. At the Court this morning Charles Bentley was ordered to contribute is. Cd. per week towards the arrears of maintenance of his child, in default, a month's imprisonment. A match was held under th<> auspiccs of the Gnu Club yesterday, this being for Mr. A. I'. Whatman's trophy. Mr. J. l.aurenson made ton "kills'' in tho fifloen-Jjiril match, ami R. ,1. King eight birds in the nine-bird match. Daniel Wilton wa.s fined 2s. Cd. and Vs. costs in tlie Mn.gist rate's Court this morning for koepin? his (shop open for tho transaction of business on a Sunday, Walter But, labourer, of Waihakiki, Carterton, was to-day adjudicated bankrupt. At tho monthly meeting of the M.isterton Chamber of Commerce to-day, a resolution by the Wellington Chainlm', asking far an amendment of the Industrial Ccnciliation and Arbitration Act, was approved.