MASTERTON NOTES

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2625, 22 November 1915, Page 3

MASTERTON NOTES

Tho Wairarapa Latty Liverpool Committee intends providing a- Christmas dinner for the. soldiers in the Tauherenikau Camp. It is expected that harvesting operations in the Wairarapa. will commenco two weeks earlier this year': than last year. Some of ■ the crops are already fit for harvesting. No fewer than fifty of. those who have enlisted in t'he AVairarapa recruiting area have intimated that tliey will not be available until January and February. -

In a Booth Cup match played on Thursday, the Masterton Bowling Club defeated Gre.vt-own by on'o point.

Tlie ..annual of the North Wairarapa Rifle Association is .to be held on the Fairview range on January .1 and 3.

The Wairarapa Amateur Athletic Club held .an evening run on Thursday. A 75yds. handicap was won by J. Bradbury, and'a, by;-.W.-Candy.

The licensee of the Tauem Hotel was fined 40s. and costs this morning for permitting drunkenness on the premises., A number of Territorial- men .'were fined this morning for.failing to attend drill. One. pleaded that he had' been rejected for service abroad as medically unfit, and he thought this' absolved him from drill.

The treatment accorded to returned troopers was t'he Subject of a .discussion at a meeting of directors of the Wairarapa Caledonian Society on Friday evening, and a deputation was ultimately appointed to wait upon the Patriotic Society at its next meeting in rospect to the matter. '' -

The Masterton Homing. Pigeon Club flew a.race from Auckland on Friday, the winning bird coming from the loft of Mr. 'G. Pember.

i The Wairarapa Caledonian Society has withdrawn the offer made to the Government of the .services of the Wairarapa Pip® Band as a regimental band to one of the reinforcements.

A canvass is being made in Masterton for subscriptions in aid of the provision of a YIM.C.A. hall at the Tauherenikau Camp for tho use of soldiers.

The General Manager of Railways lias promised the Masterton Chamber of. Commerce that he will inquire into the matter of the car accommodation provided on the Wairarapa railway.