MASTERTON NOTES

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3084, 15 May 1917, Page 6

MASTERTON NOTES

Several of the sections in the Tiraumea Set-tleraont, ~ near Alfredton, are stiil open for selection by returned soldiers.

The Management Committee of the Wairarapa Kugby Union hajS granted permission for the use of the eld showgrounds at Masterton for matches with teams from the Peatherston Camp.

The trustees of St. School for Girls have decided to establish a boarding hostel for pupils in Masterton.

The Featherston County Council has agreed to' send delegates to a conference to be convened by the Masterton County Council to consider the question of the amalgamation of the various counties in the AVaimrapa.

The AVellington Branch of the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants has passed the following resolution: — "That this .meeting of the AVellington Branch of the A.S.R.S. calls tho attention of Cabinet to the manner in which statements of artjimtruo nature were placed before the Court at_ Auckland in tho cases against tbe miners' officials, and also ask the Government to order a public inquiry into the circumstances connected with the cases.' .

Merchants having iioods far delivery should get \:s to handle them. We collect goods, ship them, pay dues, distribute at destiimtiou. Or.r system is ecouomical, sure, labour-saving. The New Zealand Express Co.. Ltd., 87-91 Cus. tcnihoiue Quay.—Advt.

Messrs. Grant and Campbell, land agents, Hawera, advertise particulars of a mixed farm of 773} acres in their hands for sale.

Seventy-five acres of Kairanga land, sown in English grass, are advertised for sale by Messrs. Gilchirst and TCidd, Palmerston North.

Parsnips liave a food value about three-fourths that of potatoes, says the British Board of Agriculture.