WAIRARAPA ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 220, 11 June 1919, Page 10

WAIRARAPA ITEMS

Masterton finas hare been advised that the cost of motor tyres has been reduced. The Minister of Public Health has approved the estimates of tho Wairarana Hospital and Charitable Aid Board for the ensuing year. A municipal milk depot is the latest suggestion for Masterton. Excellent entries arc being received for the Masterton Poultry Society's show, to be held this month. At a meeting of fun Claims Board of the Wairarapa Patriotic Association on Monday three loans, aggregating .£9OOO, were granted Wairarapa returned soldiers to enable theni to stock their farms. Many farmers in-the Masterton district aro killing off their calves this year, owing to the shortago of feed. The Central Committee of the Wairarapa Hospital and Charitable Aid Board decided yesterday to offer tho Health Department a site for a'dozen or half n dozen shelters for the treatment of consumptive soldiers whose condition does not warrant their admission to a sanatorium. There are'at present nine diphtheria cases .and four 6carlet fever cases in the Masterton Hospital. Tho number of applicants for land In the Ahikouka settlement has been reduced to twenty-two. A ballot for the Ave sections in the settlement is to bo held on Wednesday. Sister Crawford, who has been actingmatron at the Masterton Hospital for some time past, has tendered her resignation to the Wairarana Hospital Board, after eight years' service. The Featherston School Committee has entered an omphalic protest against the vacant headmastership of the school bein<! advertised by the Education Board on a grade 4, C salary basis,' whereas the present grade stands as grade 5, A. Although at present 'the attendance average, as might reasonably be expected during winter months, and* villi an epidemic of colds in evidence, is below 241, the committee has every reason to believe that the year's figures will provo favourable to the retention of the present grading.