MASTERTON NOTES.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1331, 8 January 1912, Page 3

MASTERTON NOTES.

REMOTE SETTLERS AND COAST BOATS. (From Our Special Correspondent.) Masterton, January 6. Thirty-eight breaches of the Licensing Act were investigated in Masterton during the year 1911, as against ihirty-seven for the 'previous year. Thirteen „of the charges were dismissed, and two withdrawn, while convictions were entered in twenty-three cases. The iiext sitting of ihe Supreme. Court is to be held in .Masterton on March 19. For the year ending December 31 last, eighteen persons wero adjudicated bankrupt in the Wairarapa district on their own petition. The gross amount of unsecured' liabilities shown on the statements supplied lo the Oflicial Assignee was ,£5902 7s. .VI.. and the amount owing to unsecured creditors totalled 4>V2M 11s. Sd. The estimated assets amounted to •C 6090 9s. 3d. ' Settlers in the East Coast.districts who depend upon the coasting boats delivering stoics and carrying wool, have been considerably inconvenienced during the last few months owing to the irregularity of the boats in their arrival. The cause is attributed to the fact that the coastal boats have been doing the work of the boats which were laid up by the recent strike.

SLwigii and Mrs. Avehell, who have been in cniirpre of the local corps of the Salvation Army for some months, have been ttansferred to Inglewood. They are being succeeded by Adjutant and Mrs. Hutlguist, of Hastings. '