WAIRARAPA NOTES

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 275, 9 August 1918, Page 8

WAIRARAPA NOTES

The Military Medical Board will open , a Bitting ut Masterton on August 19. ! The directors of the Masterton Co-op-erative- Dairy Company are making a iinal payment to suppliers of 2d. per lb. of butter-fat, "bringing the payment for tlio season up to Is. 7d. per 11). ! Messrs'. J. Bradbury and F. Kilmister, two prominent members of the AVairnrapa Amateur Athletic Club, who havebeen ealjed to the colours, were fare■vvolled at a social reunion in the Municipal Hall on Thursday evening. ; The directors of the Masterton Co-op-erative Dairy Company have decided to pay a dividend of 5 per cent, on paid-up capital. The appointment of a successor to Mr. L. G. licid, S.M., who retires from the AA'airarapa circuit on August SI, has not yet been made. Good work is being done at the tench- ; «rs' agricultural class in tho Masterton District High School. ; In connection with the Feathcrston--1 Martinborough copper trail contest Mnrtinborough has raised thereby de- : . feating the local organisation by a nar- , row margin in reaching Kaiwaiwai—the halfway mark. A highly enjoyable- danco was held in the Featherston Town Hall on AYedncsday night in aid of the copper trail, over ! 200 being present. At an interval ' several vocal items wore Tendered by nrtists from the camp, and the CI Band ! played the accompaniments for the i dancing.'' Mesdamcs Carlyon and Speedy ! wore in charge of the arrangements.