MASTERTON NOTES

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2686, 4 February 1916, Page 9

MASTERTON NOTES

Some very fine crops of red clover have been harvested in the Master con district this year. The harvest of perennial rye grass has been a record for the district. The threshing of cereals will commence in about a week's time. There is still a keen demand for fat cattle m the AVairarapa, and outside buyers have recently been scouring the district. Owing to the scarcity of farm labour, numerous milking machines have been installed in the Forty-mile Bush this season. The local agent of the ,Labour Department reports that there have been very few applications for work of late, though numbers could have been placed in the harvest field had they been forthcoming. An outbuilding at Lansdowue, belonging to Sirs. Walter Harris, was destroyedl by fire on Wednesday evening. There was 110 insurance on the building. A Masterton Chinaman lias presented a large quantity of vegetables to the Patriotic Society for use at the military hospital at Featherston. Charles Richard Fletclier has heen fined £5 and costs by Mr. L. G. lleid, S.M., .for taking seven bottles of whisky into the military camp at I'eatherston. As he did not appear to answer the charge, his bail of £10 has been estreated.