MASTERTON NOTES.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1525, 22 August 1912, Page 5

MASTERTON NOTES.

(From Our Special Correspondent.) Masterton, August 20.,; The annual meeting of the Kaitunk • Dairy- Company was held last evening. The report showed that the suppliers had had . a very successful season, receiving as high ' as ltd. per II). for butter-fat..; The whole. '•;.'* of the cheese output of the.company had bcmi'of the first grade. Mr. J. \ates was elected chairman of directors for the ensuing year. ■ • ■, ' ;, Hans Peter Petersen, farmer; of Master' ,i, . ton, was yesterday adjudicated bankrupt.' ■•" : An examination of Territorial officers i«, to be held hero this week. ' Specifications have been prepared, and tenders are being called, in Knglundfor a. motor fire engine, for the Masterton firs service . -, Mr. J. Ebboit has been appointed mnna-'' " gcr of tho MaMerlcin. Dairy C'oinjmhy'i creamery at Nikau. _• ' v At a special meeting of (lie Masterton',. branch of tho W.C.T.U held-yesterday, arrangements were made for the district .' convention, which takes place here on Septembers. About twenty delegates will ",' be present. ' Settlors on Hie lia.-t Coast report;'.that there is every indication of this year's•■ lambing percentage being high. Tho Wainirnpa representative foolbollers left this morning for New Plymouth. The first match of tho tour will'bo plaved ou Thursday against Taramiki. : .-' Masterton; August 21. , A race balUs to bo held in Mosti-rton on Septomlor 20. , ■• . > Tho formal ion of the Masterton branch of tho Reform League'is to be celebrated by holding a "social," to which Ministers and members of Parliament are to be invited.. ' ■ ■ Mr. T. W. M'Mastor, who has for some Mime been stationed in Wellington, in • ■'.■'• to succeed Mr. 1). Loader on the stuff of tho Masterton Post Olliee. The first volume of tho New Zealand Lincoln Sheep Hrecdcrs' h'lock Hook lias just been issued. Tho registered office of the Lincoln- Association is at Masterton. . Ploughing; operations aro now in full swing in the Wairarapa. Vnrme-rs aru taking advantage of the line weallier to . .- push on the work. ■ A quantity of flowering shrubs has been donated to the Masterton lleaulifying Society by Mr. Thomas Dixoy. ' ■'. At n well-attended meeting yesterday ot ' tho Wairnrnpi Employers' ■ Association, Messrs. li. A. Scotty.A. Young, and 0.-S.'-Pinkev wore appointed to attend tho sitting of tho Arbitration Court at 'Welling, ton ou September 12, tft hear tho drivers' ;.., demands tor a- Dominion award. At a meeting yesterday of a wib-com-mittee of the Wairarapa Hospital and Charitablo Aid Hoard, four males and on« female were selected for admission to tho - ; Muclianan Home ot Greytown. ' Messrs. J. C. Cooper, C. E, Daniel), mid '~.. C. A. Tnbuteau have been appointed dole--gales from tho Wairarapa Emnloyors'. As'sociation to tho annual meeting '•of the association to bo held in Wellington next month. '' ■ '" Steps are being taken to form a branch . of tho Overseas Club in Masterton.