COUNTRY NEWS

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 135, 3 March 1919, Page 8

COUNTRY NEWS

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WAIRARAPA ITEMS

There were no bankruptcies recorded in llio Wairarapa during Lho month >of i'ebrunry. ' .Nineteen Applications were received by tilt- Wairarapa Hospital im<l Charitable Aid board tor the position of matron to ■ lho. Masterton Hospital, a vacancy which was canned by the resignation of iliss Wilkinson. Six names were submitted for ballot,- and of the ten votes cast seven were recorded in favour of Miss M. M. M'lVnb, who was duly appointed, subject to the approval of the Supermtendcnt of Hospitals. The new matron was matron at the Wnitua Hospital, Keefton, for some, vears. She was at Burnhill Hospital, Glasgow, in the years 1900-09, and district nurse for three and a halt years in Argyllshire, tier qualifications are niedicai, surgical, midwifery, and she holds first-class diplomas in cookery and domestic, science. An extraordinary medium of shareholders in the llukiuiui Cheese Company on Wednesday night carried a resolution by a considerable majority in favour ot u levy not exceeding Id. per lb. of but-ter-fat for the season for the provision of lho necessary money to send delegates to Europe to inquire into sugar of milk possibilities. The meeting also nccorded the Executive Committee a vole of thanks for the great interest they had taken in' the matter. "The progress made so far in regard to the hydro-electric ncheiue is satisfactory," Sir. ,T. B. Keith is reported to have stated at the Masterlon Chamber of Commerce meeting. The targets -tit the,.Papiiwai rifle range havo been so' much knocked übont by the Defence Department, says the "Age,' that it is probable the proposed meeting in connection with the Wairarapa Rifle Association will have lo be abandoned. Tha association will make application to the Defence Department to restore- the targels. , , The Government Bacteriologist wrote to, (he AYuirarupa Hospital mid Charitable Aid Board stating that a supply ot 300 doses of mixed influenza vaccine for •prophylactic inoculation had been forwarded in accordance with instructions received from the Chief Health Officer. Threo forged pink JOs. notes of the Bunk of New Zealand have been discovered in Carterton, and one in Masterton. Ono of the Carterton notes horp the number 555,171. In a lawn tonnij match played on Saturday, Jlasterton defeated'Tinui by 2a games to tseren. Tho libel action, ,T. T. M, Hornsby. M.P., versus W. C. Deller, of Carterton, has been settled out of Court. An old nnd respected settler of Masterton, in the person of Mr. James Colway, died on Saturday at the age of fifty-four years. , ' ■■ Tho Wairarapa South County Coui.eil has decided to ask the local bodies of the Wairarapa to appoint two delegates to a meeting-to be held in Carterton towards the end of March, to discuss the question of the formation of a hydroelectric power board and define the r.rea of the proposed district, under tho Electric Power Boards Bill. Messrs. J. C. Cooper and-C. E. Daniell, members of the Wairarapa Hydro-Electric Investigation Committee, are to be invited to be present at the meeting. The Wairarapa South County Council is strongly in sympathy with, the immediate proccduro of the local hydro-electric scheme, and consider, they should take the lead, in this matter,.as at the outset the_ largest users of powor would be within the 1 county.