WAIRARAPA NOTES

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 150, 14 March 1918, Page 10

WAIRARAPA NOTES

'• ' • • The subscriptions in the AVairarapa towards the Red Triangle appeal have now reached £6475 15s. The Lady Liverpool Committee has contributed £300 to the fund. The first soldiers' dance of the ycai was held in Ma9terton oil Wednesday evening. There was a large gathering of men from the Featherston Camp. The wages of tho acting-overseer of the Masterton County Council have been fixed at los. per day. The permanent. employees are paid 11s. per day and free house. ' Nine local bodies have objected to the apportionment of fhe cost of the proposed ferro-ooiicrete bridge N over" the Waingawa River, on the MastcrtonCarterton. road.- Another meeting of delegates of local bodies is to be held to further consider the matter. It has been discovered that a number of unnaturalised enemy subjects in the Masterton district have been votino; at local and general elections for many years past. The body of the man drowned in tho AVhareama' River on Sunday last has not yet been recovered. It is presumed tlmt it has been washed out to sea. The Masterton County Council has endorsed a resolution from the Auckland City Council, strenuously advocatiug the retention of Samoa. A sum of £50 has been voted by tho Jlastorton County Council towards the preliminary expenses of the hydro-elec-tric investigation committee, provided tho expenditure is legal. Three-horse teams are now costing tho Mastertou County Council 325. 6d. per day. ' . Tho Masterton County Council has an overdraft on general account of £5077. Thero are at present 259 scholars on the Featherston public school roll, and the average attendance last month was 22!). The number of pupils has substantially increased since the advent of the military camp. At the annual meeting of the Grevtown Fire Brigade, the following officers wf-rc elected:—Captain, W. Gates; first lieutenant, A. Cor; second lieutenant T. Fisher; branchnien, J. Workman. 11. Trotman, A. Morris, It,. Clarke; hydrant men, E. Raison. K Boydi and W. Gray: secretary, R. Clarke; treasurer, H. Trotman.