MASTERTON NOTES

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2701, 22 February 1916, Page 9

MASTERTON NOTES

Satisfactory entries have been received for tlie Masterton Horticultural and Industrial Society's Autumn Show,, to be held on Wednesday next.. The; proceeds are to be devoted to the patriotic funds. Lieut.-Colonel Hope-Lewis recently placed a proposal before a committee of ladies in Masterton for the billeting out with farmers' of returned soldiers who aro suffering from neurasthenia and mental shock. The proposal is being enthusiastically taken up, and a strong committee of ladies has been set up to forward the scheme. The Wellington provincial amateur athletic championship meeting is to be held in Masterton on March 10, durinir tho Friend.'- " Societies' Carnival Week. Messrs. G.- C. Williams, ,T. Pickett, W. Cooper, and W. Howard Booth judged tho correct weight (1761b.) of the bullock- in tlie weight-judging competition at the Masterton Show. Messrs. J. Victor, W. HammomT, James M'Kenzie, and George Clifford judged the correct woicht of the pen of sheep, nam el v, 2271b. No cases of infantile paralysis have yet been reported in Masterton, though one case has been under observation in tho isolation ward of the local hospital. A fine draft of 300 bullocks, being portion of a line of 1200 bullocks purchased bv the Wellington Farmers' Meat Company from a settler in the MauaAvatu district, arrived at the Waingawa works at the latter end oT last 11 Tho Masterton municipal buildings aro nearing completion. Tho readingroom has already been thrown open to the public.