MASTERTON NOTES.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1500, 24 July 1912, Page 5

MASTERTON NOTES.

-4- 1 (From Our Special Correspondent.) Mastcrton, July 23,. . Another bitterly cold south-westerly gale set in this morning, and has every' appearance of continuing. Heavy ruin has been falling all day. The present month will ho the wettest .that has'beeu experienced for many years. Already' over eight inches of rain has fallen. Tho only good cfi'ect which tho weather up- • pears to have had has been to cause a diminution in tho rabbit aud grass grub pests. Tho Mastcrton Boxing Club will hold a. tournament in tho Town. Hall tp-nior- . row evening. A meeting is to 'bo hold in Murrav's IfaU tliis evening for the purpose of forming a lodge of tho Aitteriwiii"OTder of Oddfellows. . ■ . . I'MWftnt, M.A., Principal o('\ tho rjvuniiic College, recentlv. do-' livereA an address before" the ' Wairarap® branch of the Teachers' ■■ Institute, taking for- his subject ''Aspects of Education in British and i Schools." The speaker dwelt [oil tho various educational svstems' oi Europe, _ ond_ stated that the ' education. system in Now Zoalaiid compared very favourably with that of other countries. A team front the Mastcrton Harriers loaves for Palmerston North this evening to competu in a cross-country run in tho Mnnawatu to-morrow. At a meeting of the Wairarnpa Amateur Athletic Club last evening, Mr. \V. Dick-, son was appointed to represent (ho clnh at a conference of oountry club delegates to bo hold in Palmerston North. Tho fortnightly nioeting of tho Manohcs.- • tor Unity of Oddfellows was hold UVt. evening, Bro. J. Stewart, N.G., prosidiu ;. Bro. 'WinskiH was presented with a p;i:-! a Ulcers' emblem. Tho annual meeting of tho Mastcrton Homing Pigeon Club was hold last even, ing, when the following officers wero elected:—President, Mr. W. C. Gourlav; vice- ' presidents, ■ Messrs. G. K. Sykos, V.P., C, Perry, T. G. Hoar, and J.'p. B. Sutherla®d; Kcrotary. Mr. H, U. Wilton, ' »