WAIRARAPA ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 190, 7 May 1919, Page 10

WAIRARAPA ITEMS

A number of'returned soldiers are reported to be out of ',employment in the \Vuirarapa, notwithstanding that the local Repatriation Committee lias made an earnest appeal to employers in their behalf, A very severe frost was experienced throughout the Wairarapa on Monday. At a meeting of the Claims Board ol the Wairarapa Patriotic Association, n loan was granted a returned soldier tc enable him to stock his farm. Six claims fo,r temporary reliof were kranted". 'Mr. Jamea Stone, who established the AVaipoua nurseries in Mnsterton over 40 years'ago, died a few days back at the age of Si years. One or two eases of iijliupnza are under treatment in Mostertou, but they are not of u, serious type. i Anniversary gatherings in connection with the Lansdowne Presbyterian Sunday School were held on Sunday and Monday. A strong choir of children provided tho music. A man named AVilliam Smith, who was arrested at Tinui, lias been remanded to Napier oil" a charge of being tho putative father of an unborn illegitimate child. Mr. John Hossey, J.P., an old resident of Mnsterton, is leaving shortly to take up his rcsidenco ii( Melbourne. Mr. L.' 0. Ingram, who has been auctioneer at Mnsterton for the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd., for some years past, lias been | transferred to Wanganui. Mr. Ernest,B. Hare, who died at Wei-

? 1 lingtou a few days ago at the ago of fit years, was a 6on of the lato 11 r. Robert Have, one of the pioneer settlors ol' Masterton. lie was married to a daughter of Jlrs. A. B. Tales, of Mnslei'ton. A seveu-a-side football tournament in connection with the Wairarapa Rugby Union is to bo played at Carterton on Saturday. ' During the last two months the Wairarapa Repatriation Committee lias issued five loans for businesses, amounting in the aggregate to J;1025. t has also granted- loans to married soldiers lor furniture amounting to X 250, Dr. James E..Riddell, of Wellington, waited upon the Claims Board of the Wairaropa Patriotic Association on Monday, and made a strong appeal for financial assistance for the soldiers' scholarship fund. The matter was referred to the executive of the society. Applications are now being called from soldiers fcrr sections in tho Ahikouka settlement, near Ureytown. Messrs. AViggin Bros, property of 1200 acres "in Kuratawhiti Street, Greytown, is being divided into smaller dairy farms. A sale of gift stock is to be held at Carterton on Friday under the auspices of uie AVairarnpa and Fast Coast P. and A. Soriety in aid of the Memorial Pavilion Fund. Included in the AVairarapa : soldiers who returned homo on the Remuera from service with early reinforcements were' Sergeants A. Ruane (Feathcrstoii), De Lacey (Carterton), and R. Holms (Gladstone).