DISTRICT NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2370, 28 January 1915, Page 7

DISTRICT NEWS.

JOTTINGS PROM PROVINCIAL CENTRES. (Prom Our Special Correspondent*.) CARTERTON. Mr. Fred. Sparks, of Belvedere, has purchased a 200-acre farm from Mr. Olsen, of Hukauui, and will shortly enter into possession. At the Carterton Polioe Court on Tuesday a young man named Albert Ilayner was charged with using obBoene language in a public place, and also with using threatening behaviour with intent to provoke a breach of the peace. Defendant pleaded not guilty, and after hearing the evidence was fined £2 and costs on.: the. obscene languagecharge, and the other charge- was dismissed. Carterton bowlers play Masterton in the second round for the Booth Cup to. day at Masterton, .

MASTERTON. 'An exhibit of Aberdeen Angns cattle is to be made at the Masterton Shownext month by Mr. Fred. Moors, of Wanganui, This class of cattie hitherto, not been represented at our shows. The question of whether the proportional representation system should be introduced at the nest election of the Masterton Borough Council, as provided for in an Act passed last session, was raised at the meeting of the council on Tuesday evening. Councillors did not appear sufficiently conversant with the system to vote unnu it, and 110 action was taken. As the Act requires tliat the system can only be adopted by special order made three months before the election, it will now be impossible to make a change for two years.

The war does not appear to have seriously affected Masterton. The clerk to the Borough Council stated at the meeting on Tuesday evening that the rates received up to January 20 this year amounted to £4257, compared with £3453 up to the same period last year. The number of gas-cookers in uso in Masterton at the present timo is 679. fifty-nine were sold by the Borough .Council during last year. The Masterton Borough Council has an endowment of several hundred acres of land between Eketahuna and Alfredton. The lease of"this expires in Juno nest, and it is expected that the revenue of the borough will be sensibly increased under the new lease; Among the visitors to Masterton at the present time are Mr.'J. A. Brailsford, late editor of 'the' "Inland China Post," Hankow; Mr. D. J. Nathan, of Wellington; and Mr. W. Pryor, secretary of the Employers' Federation.