WAIRARAPA NEWS
Shearing operations in the Wairarapa are now well- advanced. The season has been.,the latest on-"record. 'Very few lambs are being shorn. It is pToposed that'the buildings on the training farm at the Taratahi, together with the equipment, 'will be tho-.sauie as on an up-to-date-farm. In all • probability, poultry-raising and bee culture will be adjuncts to the farm. It is expected that Dr. C. .T. Reakes will be' one of the Board of Managers, . ;. . According to published statistics, the deaths in Masterton from the influenza epidemic were fewer in number, thnn in any township with a sirnilnr population in New Zealand.' . .' '"
. Several cases of cerebro-spinal meningitis and one or two of diptheria are at present under treatment in- the Masterton Hospital.
," It. is .understood that several, breeders of purebred poultry in Masterton have expressed their willingness to provide poultry for the soldiers' training farm at Tnrata'hi. >
The jfaslorton Co-operative Dairy Company has decided to advance Is. sd. per' pound for butter-fat supplied during the month-of January. > - ■■
A fire broke out in a house occupied by Mr. Wyeth, Grey town, and. owned by Mr. - Coleman- Phillips. The' cause of the outbreak' 'was ii "curtain \ 'catching fire. -The fire was put out.lefore much damage had been done.
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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 87, 7 January 1919, Page 3
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206WAIRARAPA NEWS Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 87, 7 January 1919, Page 3
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