WAIRARAPA NEWS

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 118, 12 February 1919, Page 10

WAIRARAPA NEWS

The Masterton Eacing Ciub has been advised that the latest date selected' for its autumn meeting, viz., March 27, is not available. Another date is consequently being applied for. There arc at present fifteen inmates in the Solway Home and twenty in tho Buchanan Home.

The Wairarapa Hospital and Charitable Aid Board.has paid out .£lßlll Gs 3d. in connection with the epidemic accounts. None of the accounts paid have exceeded £iO. At a'meeting of the Claims Board of the Wairarapa Patriotic Association yesterday four .applications for loans were deferred for further consideration, and five returned soldiers were granted temporary assistance. Good entries have been Teceived for the Masterton A. and P. Association b show, to be heid next week.

A We number of Masterton Tesidents who suffered from the influenza epidemic find that'their hair .is rapidly difappearing, and they can discover no means of stopping it. ' .V ease of suspected diphtheria was adwittttl ■to the. Masterton . Hospital on Monday. The Defence Department has presented the Masterton Hospital with a Bristow Vattory for the treatment of soldier patients. ■ Although (rood wage? are offering, a difficulty is being experienced in setiwinir unskilled labour in the Masterton district. ' . 11,1 •\. business mon'a luncheon was held at Masterton on Tuesday, when important proposals were made for advancing the interests of the borough. Manual labour in Ihe Wairarapa is jost now -a. thing to be conjured with. A factory manager stated that he had offered two men lfe. a day.to do labourera''work. They both stated that they wanted heavy boots before . (hey • could start. Orders for the foot-gear wero given them, .but neither has. since made his appearance. .The manager has had, to pay for the boots, one pair cf which was charged up to 355. Three Mangamhire returned'-soldiers, Lance-Corporal A. ll.' Lawson and lMflemen Woods «nd ,T. D. Clarke, were tendered e, social at Konini. Each was- presented by Mr. G. 8.-Sykes, member fur Masterto'u, with a cheque for several pounds. ■ . . The Woodville County Conncil has a credit balance of <£180». A meeting of'the executive of the Pahiatua War Belief Aesociation was held at the Bank of New Zealand on Saturday evening last. There were present Messrs. I'. Thomson (chairman), M. iAipass, A. M'Kay, G. W. Chatwin, W. I Brown, with the hon. secretary (Mr. G. ! Harold Smith, M.1 , .). It was reported I that grants had been made to returned '< esldiera diwing the past month amouutjiiig altogether to about .€2OO. On the ! laotion of Mr. Alpass it was dscidwl ' to grant a .temporary .loan to. an appli- : cunt who had arranged to provide eatis- ! factory security. A grant was also made I to Another applicant to enable him to ! start work as a drover. Several other matters cf a confidential nature were 'dealt-with. , ■ , ' . ■ v Mr. 11. W. ■■ Baddeley, who has been accountant at the Masterton.branch of the Batik of Now Zealand for nine yeara, will shortly rfrtiro frniii the .service of the I bank on a penoioa.