COUNTRY NEWS

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 137, 5 March 1919, Page 8

COUNTRY NEWS

NOTES FROM VARIOUS CENTRES WAIRARAPA ITEMS Air. 11. E. Jackson, dental surgeon, hus received his discharge from his military duties, and has resumed his practice in Cailerton. Sir. -Jackson was ou military service for nearly two years, holding the rank of captain hi the A'.Z.D.C. He was in camp tor the major portion of the lime, but made one voyage with a hospital ship to J.'gypt and Marseilles. A meeting of Carrington seitleis is to be held tins week to discuss the waternice scheme. -Mr. D. Murray, late of Hastings, has Intel up his residence in Carteriun, having joined in partnership with Mr. fiMorrison, motor and cycle engineer. The settled weather of late lias enabled the farmers to form ahead .with hiirvestiiij,' operations, mm consequently the thrashing mills are kept busy, and likewise the railway traffic. Mr. W. Ikird, who lias been attached to tho clerical staff of the Cross Crookrailway for some lime past:, has been transferred to Napier. ■ , At n meeting of the Claims Board ofthe AViiirarapa Patriotic Association on Monday night claims on behalf of Wuinirapa soldiers for temporary assistance were granted. Three loans, aggregating £'M, were grunted to soldiers to enable (hem to ninrt in business. 'J.'iie Nireulia Dairy Company and other companies in the Eorly-Mile Jsn.sU have declined to contribute towards the proposed levy to send a delegate nbroiid to ir.vt'slinale the sugar of. milk industry. At the nuiiiiul meeting of the. Masterto:i Poultry Society on Monday evening I'li'j elwliou of offieeis was deferred. It Was decided to write the Government I'oullry Division, asking if Mr. V. Curzone would ue iivaikblu to aot a» judge lit (he next show, it was decided to apply for June 2? and 28 as dates for lh(> show. !lt was stated nt u meeting of dairymen: «t Mireuha on ifotiutlay tlwt the estimnted cost, of fwidiu;; . a delegation abroad to inquire into the sugar of milk industry was JG3OOO. It has been .-iiiggested that the Tnrntahi experimental farm will be a suitable plfice at which to hold an egg-laying" competition. The slublee at the rear of Ihe Royal Hotel at j'eatuerjton were destroyed Ij.v fire on Saturday night. There lire still a i'eir sporadic, cases of influenza in the -Pnhiatua district. About 1600 )irimea have (says the Mas-ter-ton "Times"), already been handed in for the supplementary t roll for the Mii-terlon electorate. One clinvasser has enrollwl eleven hundred during the past few weeks,