WAIRARAPA

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 200, 19 May 1919, Page 8

WAIRARAPA

The llasterton Chamber of .Commerce nas appointed Messrs. J. Caseiborg, ). t. Couner, anU (J. K JJaiiiell as delegates to the eonferencL- called by the Wellington Central-Chamber ot Commerce to discuss roads, and railway matters. • The Musterton Chamber has suggested that the- question of tho shipjing shortage ■Jinglit also be discussed nt the conference. The capital value of the land adminii■tereu bj ■ uie Masterwn Trust Lands Irnst is approximately jCSO.OUO. Mr. \V. jU'Kenzio has sold his property ,at Mntaliiwi to Mr. Alec. M'Kay, of Pahiatua. A Workers' Co-operative Store Company, wliicn was loi'inud in lUasterton a yeiir or,two ago,'bus gone into voluntary liquidation. Tho Mnslertou Chamber of Commerce has expressed itself 111 entire sympathy with the proposal of the Paiinerstoii Chamber to bi-iny about an iuiprovcni'inc in tho condition ot tne nuiin arterial roaus. The llasterton Cliauiber of Commerce' has decide to support a.resolution of tlio Ureytown'Chamber, urging the deviation ,of the iiimuiaka railway. At the ivnnunl nieeliii(! of voters of the. Musterton Trust Lands Trust, a resolution wiw iiassod oudorsins the action of tho trustees in voting a sum of .65000 towards a technical high stiiool. hi the JUigisiratqs Court, .t Wasterton on I'ridiiy.; Alexander -Birss, licensee of. the Taratahi Motel, Carterton, wfcs.chargI ed with having kept his licensed -premises open on the evening of April i for the purpose of supplying liquor to Ken-, uetli G'eor«i> Newiuud during the jours when tho hotel should Imvo boen ciosed. Kenneth Ueorgp JS'ewland, of Mnslerronj was cliarged with having been found 011 the hotel- premises during .1 tinio. when they should have been closed. The two eases "wore taken together. Aiter hearing the evidence, both defendants were convicted, and Newland fined A' 2 ' and" costs. The penalty in Btrss's case was deferred until Tuesday. It is reported that an influenza, case developed during tho past neelc on a etation twenty miles beyond Mnrtinborough, and the patient was removed to tho Musterton Hospital, : A wind-up social is to bo held shortly by the Carterton Citizens' arid Settlers' Entertainment Comraitteo. This organisation for nearly three years very successfully conducted weekly socials in Carterton for the soldiers stationed in the Wairarapa training camps. ■ . The Oddfellows' Miniature Eiflo Club, Carterton, has decided to hold two shoots a week in future. Compotitions will ■be held on the Monday evening, oiid practice on the Thursday.