WAIRARAPA NEWS

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 33, 2 November 1918, Page 3

WAIRARAPA NEWS

Seven returned soldiers are at present under treatment ui tut> Jaiistenou ilospual. Xue statement filed in- the bankrupt estate of (i. ±L iNoiiu, oakcr, o£ weuiuston, and lomeriy 01 iVlastehon, snows a denciency of £'&A 10s. M. The iluliuiry Meuicai Jtioard will.hold u one-day sitting in Mastertou next week. A violent tnunderatorm passed over Masterton on Tuesday afternoon. 'iae disturbance caused a good deal of interruption to tlie telephone service. About a dozen members of the legal fraternity in Masterton assembled in the courthouse on Wednesday, and, after referring to the excellent qualities of the late Air. A. E. Bunny, passed a resolution of condolence witli tho widow and lamily of the deceased. ~,,,, A small draft oi.tlie Forty-eighth Reinforcements will concentrate in Alasterton on November 6. One bankruptcy has been recorded in the Wairarapa foe the mouth of October. ' , ' Definite arrangements have been made by the Featherston Educational Association in co-operation with the facliool Committee, for Professor T. A. Hunter MA., Welington, to give nn illustrated lantern lecture on Monday night next. At tho conclusion of tho lecture resolutions will be submitted bearing upon local and national educational requirements. ~ , The past month has been the wettest October experienced in ' the Wairarapa for some years. Nearly an inch ot rain has ..fallen during tho... last two days. Shearing and other farm operations have ■been much delayed. 'At an inquest on tho body.of Thomas Jackson, who was tho victim of a fatal shooting accident, the district coroner returned a verdict that death was due to blood-poisoning supervening on a gunshot wound accidentally recoived. At a special general meeting ot tne shareholders of the Wairarapa Working Men's Co-operative Association it was decided to create .*1 shares and to fix tlio maximum number to bo held by any one I)e At° n a "social gathering in connection with the Masterton Municipal Fire Brigade, presentations were made to exSuperintendent T. Jenkins, ex-Secretary Ken Johnston, ex-Foreman Chapman, and ex-Foreman J. Henderson, nil of whom al Mr no J. A. Shackleton has been elected to succeed Mr., D. Anderson as chairman of directors of the Wairarapa Workin" Men's Co-oporative Association. Objection is being raised to the pro'posed assessment for the erection ot a nw traffic bridge over the, Tauheremknu 'River and the matter will probably bo investigated by a commission. ■U a conference of delegates from various Druids' Ledges of the district, held in Maste'rton on Monday, it was decided to establish a District Board in compliance with the wishes of the Grand Arrangements have ' been maAe for cricket matches to be played in Masterton every Saturday with teams from the Featherston Camp. The first match will be played to-morrow. Building permits to the value of Wa were issued in Masterton dunn? tho month of October. Tho Castlepoint County Council is experiencing a difficulty in obtaining a sufficient number of teams to do the metalling work required. The vital statistics tor Masterton tor tho month of October wore as follow:— Births 23, deaths 14, marriages 5. . The CastloDoint County Council is lodging an objection against being called unon to contribute'towards the cost of erecting a bridge over the Tauhereniknu River. Rain fell in Masterton on twenty-two davs during tho month of October, the total rainfall being 3.90 inches, comDared with 2.3G inches in the same month , last year A deputation from the Wairarapa Hospital and Charitable Aid Board waited upon the Minister of Public Health and requested permission to raise .£BSOO from tho Public Trustee for making additions to the Solway Home, and for the erection of nurses' miarters at the Pahiatua Hospital., The Minister said he did not consider the works mentioned to bo of pressing urgency, and consetiuontlv could not accede to the request. He pointed out. however, that tho board was .empowered to make a lovy on tho local authorities for tho works.-