MASTERTON NEWS
Some time ago the Masterton County Council, at the request of the Agricultural Department, declared the plant known as goat's rue to .be a noxious weed. The -council has' gathered from the current issue of the "Agricultural Journal" that the alleged weed; is grown in Switzerland as a forage crop, and is relished by cattle, As the council has been put to some trouble and expense in declaring the plant to be a noxious weed, it has resolved to ask the. Department to exercise greater,care in future.
The Masterton. Territorials will -go into camp at Rangiotv, on April 3. The Rev. G. T. Brown, . M.A., of Knox Church, has been appointed a chaplain to the camp. ' The Masterton Lawn Tennis Club has decided to hold a gala day on its courts in aid of the Wounded Soldiers' Fund.
Several rinks from the Masterton Bowling Club are shortly to pay a visit to Palmerston North. The Wairarapa Presbytery nas- decided' to- set ap'art Sunday, March: 19, as a day of humiliation. and prayer, in'view of the present war. The Masterton County Council has decided to purchase a motor lorry for the conveyance of metal to different roads in the county. ' ,-The Wairarapa Presbytery'-decided,, at a . meeting on Tuesday,., to divide the ,South Wairarapa- charge, , by •• appointing "a home , missionary ' to Greytown and Morison's Bush. A deputation was anpointe<T to visit the Eketahuna charge on Tiiesday, March' 21. ' .
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Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2721, 16 March 1916, Page 3
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238MASTERTON NEWS Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2721, 16 March 1916, Page 3
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