WAIRARAPA NEWS

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 12, 9 October 1918, Page 8

WAIRARAPA NEWS

At a meeting of a sub-committee held on Monday evening a set of rules for the recently-formed Wajrarapa School Committees Association was drafted. It has been decided to form a cricket club in connection with the Masterton branch of the Y.M.C.A. The Military Service Appeal Board sat at Masterton on-Tuesday,.and dealt with a nuniber of appeals. The police in the Wairarapa intend taking vigorous measures to suppress the. indiscriminate use of glaring headlights on motor-cars. An extraordinary meeting of shareholders of the Nireaha Co-operative Dairy Company was held to consider a proposal to instal a sugar-of-milk plant. After considerable discussion it was decided that the directors procure further information on the subject. The annual meeting of the Masterton Permanent Investment and Building Society was held on Monday, the chair being occupied by Mr. J. C. Boddington. Tho report showed a fairly satisfactory volume of business for the year. Messrs. W. B. Chennells and; James Macara were re-elected directors. A team roprosenting the Wairarapa •Miniature.Hine Association was defeated by a- team from the Wellington eolation by seven points. Tho Featherston Patriotic Committee has approved of the recommendation of tho Masterton Returned Soldiers' Assoniation that Mr. L. G. Benton ho appointed as the local representative on the committee. Regret was expressed as to the Featherston proposal for tho establishment of a medical, dental, and maternal services scheme for Wairarapa soldiers' dependents (on somewhat similar lines to tho medical service carried, out for friendly societies) having been rejected by tho Masterton medical fraternity. Mr. AY. Barton mentioned at the meeting of the Featherston dairy farmers on Monday that he had been supplying milk to Wellington for the past 30 years, and under fair conditions^was, like meet ot. the .local settlers, willing and anxious to continue so doing.