WAIRARAPA NEWS

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 243, 2 July 1918, Page 8

WAIRARAPA NEWS

Twelve degrees of frost were, registered in Masterton 011 Sunday morning. This was the first heavy frost of the year. As a result of a bottle crusade, eighty dozen bottles wero delivered at n depot in Masterton on Saturday.last.

The rainfall registered in Masterton for the month of June was 2.57 inches, compared with 11.23 inches for the same period last year. During the last six mouths 17.7 inches have been registered.

Early lambs have made their appearance 011 several 1 properties in the Wailarapa. The takings at the Masterton Patriotic Shop on Saturday amounted to Jil32 iis. Id.

In a football match played on Saturday, the lied Star juniors defeated Carterton by W points to 3. No bankruptcies were recorded in tho Wairarapa during the month of .Tune. A concert party from the Featherston Camp gave a most enjoyable concert in the Masterton Town Hall on Saturday evening. Messrs. Alpx. M'Leod and William Kemp have been nominated for the extraordinary vacancy on the Masterton Borough Council caused by the death of Councillor Flanagan. The election takes place on Thursday. The Featherston Bed Cross Committee has accepted the challenge of Martiiiborougli to lay a copper trail half-way from each centre (six miles) in connection with the Auckland-Wellington effort, and <tlie local committee will commence operations 011 Thursday by holding a function in tho supper room of the Town Hall, where a "soldier" is to lie outlined iu pennies and a sentry-box erected for collections. Owing to failing health, Mr. Alfred Bish, of Carterton, who has been in business ns a watchmaker and jeweller for many years, has found it necessary to relinquish business. The return representative football match, ITa-wke's Bay versus Wnirarana, will ba played at Carterton 011 Saturday week. The Carterton Borough Council has requested that reports of the health inspector regarding sanitary defects in buildings should be sent to the council before being sent to the District Health Department. A new valuation of the Wnirarana Smith Connty Council ha« increased the rates of the Wellington Farmers' Meat Co. (Wningnwa) from .KG to ,£144. An in inemoriam service to the memory of tho late Mrs. W. Tom was held in the Carterton Methodist- Church 011 Sundav. the "Rev. .T. Ward officiating.