MASTERTON NOTES

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2777, 22 May 1916, Page 3

MASTERTON NOTES

•A j company is being formed in Hasten ton/to place on the,market an invention fori hollow-wall concrete building c'onsh taction. It is claimed that by the new process,, whiohhas- been patented in: evjbry. part of the. world excepting Germany, Austria, and Turkey, buildings can b 6 erected almost as cheaply as in wood, if is proposed to establish -subsidiary clompanies in every district in New Zealand. :7llr. J. G. L. Hewitt, S.M., has dis'iiiiissed charges against Mrs. Cordingly, wife of the licensee of the-Eoyal Oak Hotel at Carterton, of having sold liquor to be taken into a No-License area without notifying the Clerk of the Court, and with supplying liquor without making •a proper entry of the order in her books. The Magistrate held that the licensee /was responsible, if anybody, for infractions of the law, and not his wife. '■ Messrs. D. Caselberg, W. H. Jaokson, and R; Krahagen have been re-elected unopposed' as members of the Masterton Trust Lands Trust. . ' , Three stacks of wheat belonging to Messrs. Perry Bros., and valued at about JSIOO, were destroyed by fire at tho Upper Plain on Thursday evening. A threshingmachine also had a .narrow escape. Hugh Wilson, for .stealing two dozen bottles of stout from the.Taueru Hotel, was fined .£2 and costs in the Magistrate's Court oil Thursday. /