WAIRARAPA NOTES

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 256, 17 July 1918, Page 8

WAIRARAPA NOTES

Factory butler has been retailed at Mastertuu for some time back at Is. Sd. per lb. _ A peniiy-in-the-slot telephone is being installed in the neighbourhood of the Masterton Post Office. Mr. Thomas Moss, of the National Efficiency Board, visited Masterlou on Monday to discuss the question of wheatgrowing with the local Wheat Committee. From present indications the area of land to be put down in wheat in the AYairarapa this year will be much smaller than that of last year. At a_ meeting of the Claims Board of Ihe AVairarapa Patriotic Association on Monday, twelve returned soldiers and one dependent were granted temporary relief, .The" "bottle crusade" in Masterlou is proving very successful, and quite a tidy sum of money is expected to be realised , towards the funds of (lie Navy League. , ' ThoAVairarapa Egg Circle is at present , receiving Is. 4il. per dozen in Wellington for ils eggs. ( Houses are still at a premium in Mas- • terton.-and many families are living in apartments. j A largo percentage of the Second Division men who have presented themselves | to the Military- Medical Board this week | have been passed as medically fit. , A death from diphtheria occurred in the Maslerton Hospital 011 Monday, , A marked improvement, in the condi- , tio'nof-Mr. Martin Elgar, of "Fernside," , Featherston, who has been ill for some j weeks past, is reported. . In connection wilh the Featherston- : Marlinboroueh copper trail effort the c total raised lo date anoroximates ,0900— | ,£550 in the hands of Marlinborough and j .£350 in Featherston. The total from ( the TCahutara district. ..forming part of j the latter area, was ,£2Ol. ,