COUNTRY NEWS

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 142, 11 March 1919, Page 8

COUNTRY NEWS

NOTES FROM VARIOUS CENTRES WAIRARAPA ITEMS A good deal of interest is being taken in the municipal elections in Mastcrton. Tho Labour Party is running a "ticket"of 6ix, in the hope of gaining the controlling influence on the council. A citizens' committee intends, nominating nine candidates. . Dipping operations are well forward in 'tho VVairara'pa, Several good crops ot field peas have been grown in the Carterton district this season. • About twenty-seven slaughtermen are at present employed at .the Waingawa freezing works. At a salo of Westmoro stock on Saturday, the prospective soldier settlers were largo purchasers. Half a dozen members of the Opaki District Rifle Club have proceeded to Wellington to take part in the Dominion Rifle Association meeting. Several members of the Wnirarapa Amateur Athletic Club will competo at the amateur sports in Wellington this week. ' . The calendar at the hall-yearly circuit session of tho Supreme Court at Masterton will be very light. The returned soldiers who arrived from Auckland were given a cordial reception by a large crowd at tho Masterton railway station on Saturday. fhe Masterton Technical School opened an Monday with a largo attendance _of students. It is proposed that elocution classes ho established in connection with tho school. Harvest thanksgiving- services wero held by tho Methodist Church and Salvation .Army in Masterton on Sunday. Tho Masterton Central Band paid a visit to Mauricevillo and Hastwßlls on Sunday. • ' ; The final match in the shield competition was played.between' tho Masterton "A" and Carterton bowling. teams on Saturday, and resulted, in a win for the latter by 64 points to Gtf. Thousands of fat sheep aro just now being hurried to the freezing works from tho various stations in the Wnirarapa. At a sitting of the Wairarapa Licensing Bench, the license of .the Tauherenikau Hotel was transferred from Mr. H. Long to Mr. J. C. Johnston. - Mr. T. 'Evans, manager of the Masterton Cement Pipe Company, who has been seriously ill for some time past, was sufficiently-recovered to be able to get about town on Saturday. Mr. Evans is leaving in a- few days' timo for Rotorun. Mr. A. Booth, of "Hawarden," Gladstone Road, lias received word that his daughter, Nurse It. Booth, is on tho way .homo from Egypt. Nurse- 'Booth was one of tho stafr of the Aotea Convalescent Home at Heliopolis,, which- has now closed-down. Constable P. Berthelson, of Nel6on, has been appointed to succeed Sergeant S.- Brown, as officer in charge of the Tinui police district. The following have been elected officers of the Wnirarapa Egg C.irclo for the ensuing year:—Committee,' Messrs. H. Armstrong-, C. J. de Lacey (Carterton), G. F.- Knapp (Greytown), G. L. Hayne and .F. J. Fellinghnm (Masterton); auditor, Mr. R, O. Jarrett; secretary and treasurer, Mr. H. M. Boddington. Mr. Harold M'Kenzie, son of Mr. T. W. M'Kenzie, of Lansdowno, underwent au operation in the Mnsterton Hospital on Saturday for appendicitis. He is progressing favourably. Private Goodin, son of Mr. Enoch Good in, of Park Road, who sailed with (lie Sixteenth Reinforcements, is expected to land at Auckland on March 22.