MASTERTON NOTES.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1387, 13 March 1912, Page 7

MASTERTON NOTES.

(By Tcle-rraph.-Special Correspondent.) Masterton, March 12. The golfing season will shortly be opened in tnis district. The annual m.eeting ,'of the Masterton Golf Club is to be held O'.i, Thursday evening. A Masterton farmer recently sold a line of Algerian oats at the substantial price of 3s. per bushel. Another farmer secured the excellent return of 550 bushels of these oats from a paddock of five acres. At the quarterly meeting of the Masterton branch of the Carpenters' and Joiners' Union, which has a membership of thirty-eight, Mr. W. Lawton was elected president for the ensuing year. It was decided to hold meetings on Friday instead of Saturday evenings in future. Three further charges of breaches of the Defence Act are to be investigated in the Magistrate's Court at Masterton this week. The. Second Battalion of the Ninth Regiment of' Territorials goes into camp at Takapau on Saturday next, The camp will bo in charge of Major' Charters. ' The battalion will be represented by about 85 per cent, of its full strength, which is considered satisfactory. The deer-stalking season opens on April 1. Deer aro very numerous in the country to the east of Masterton, * but the number of good heads is somewhat small.