MASTERTON NOTES

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 64, 8 December 1917, Page 3

MASTERTON NOTES

An interesting case under ccnsiiiE Act was henvd in the Magistral GWt at Masterton yesterday when a Wellington firm was convicted and ordered to pay costs on a charge of having sold a certain .mixture con?S 80 Per cent.-of proof spirit. The traveller for tho firm, was also convicted, ami ordered to_ pay costs on o dmreo of having received orders for nfmiLire in .a NoJicm.se d.strict Tho effect of tho case is that tho mixture cannot now bo procured exceptinc on a medical certificate. The report furnished respecting the oau .of the fire which destroyed the ffi Bchoolhouse states that there is Z reason to suppose that it othmwiso than accidental. The Education Department has been recommended to ~X Provision for the erection of a now school. ~ ffi. r ,t-i,: A Birss, licensee of the .laratam Unf i or Sp?Ls for the P Thff Maaterton Junior Boy feooiita will hold a field day nt Mr . T. J. property at To AMnti to aa Ti,o Education Bonn] has decided to lease a recently-erected church at Solvav for primnrv school-purposes.. At an evening sporty meeting m contorn and a high jump event by G Ti!rof-£3swa R taken at tho nnBooth Cp match on Thursday bj the narrow margin of two points.