DISTRICT NEWS.
JOTTINGS FROM ALL SOURCES MASTERTON. The monthly meeting of Ihc Masterton Hospital and Charitable Aid Committee was held on Tuesday. Accounts amountins to JiGW IBs. Gd. on account of hospitals, and .£72 18s. lid. on account of Solway Homo and Charitable Aid, were passed for payment. The matron's report showed 2D patients in the Masterton Hospital, four in the Pahiatna, and 24 in ths Greytoivn at the end of June. .It is reported that a number of Masterton Natives, who .have been attending a "tangi" in Hawkc's Bay, have been prevented from returning to their homes by train. The Lansdowne School Committee is to celebrate Arbor Day to-day by the planting of ornamental trees in th<i school grounds. At a meeting on Tuesday evening of the Masterton Fire Board, Mt. D. A. Lougnlin was chosen, from seven applicants, to be custodian and engine-driver for the Masterton fire service, in succession to Mr. Stewart. The board authorised the payment of the. first quarter's subsidy to tho Five Brigade. It was decided to procure particulars of tlio cost of an electric installation tor l-be central station. It was also decided to invite tenders for new; uniforms for the fire brigade and fire police. The X-ray plant, ordered bv tho Wairarapa Hospital Board from England, has arrived, and is being installed at tho Masterton Hospital. A gas engine has also been put in at the hospital for the purpose of driving tlhe dynamo in connection with tho plant. A pump has also been installed, and an adequate supply of water is now available for use at the institution. Mr. \Y, Rotter, of Masterton, underwent a serious operation in the Napier Hospital on Friday. His condition is still causing anxiety, and it will bo some days yet before lie is out of danger. WANGANUI. Satisfactory progress is being rnado with the Dublin Street bridge, lien are now employed on the last two sets of cylinders, and in a fortnight they should bo completed, and work should be started in dead earnest on the top structure. There is ample labour nnd plenty of. material, and the work is beinjr actively pushed for ward. It is expected that the bridge will be completed very near to the contract time in March next. The local office of the Health Department have received word from headquarters prohibiting; all Natives from travelling on the river boats on the .Wanganui River. Those Maoris now in Wanganui \vill lx> allowed to return to their homes after they have been vaccinated. Dr. F. W. M'lveu7,ie is proceeding up-river to vaccinate all the Natives. CARTERTON. Mr. C'lias. Morgan, of Belvedere, has purchased a dairy farm in the W'oodville dislriil, and his two sons, Messrs. Stanley and Charles Morgan, will leave shortlv to take up Hk'. management of the farm.' It is reported that Mr. 11. l,oieii'/en, of 'Parkv-:ilt", lias purchased Mr. L. Yelvert oil's farm at Kaiiinemii'. and will enter into possession on August 1. At a meeting of llie liiwuce eoinmiltee of the AYairarami I'. and A. Seeiely, the treasurer (}lr. T. V. Moore) submitted a statement showing (hat the society's overdraft now slood at ,£532 lfis. 10(1., which is nearly <£100 less than at the corresponding timo last year.
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Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1803, 16 July 1913, Page 3
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540DISTRICT NEWS. Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1803, 16 July 1913, Page 3
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