WAIRARAPA ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 226, 18 June 1919, Page 7

WAIRARAPA ITEMS

The Masterton Racing Club intends making application to tho .Minister of Internal Affairs for a restoration of..its racing permits to those which were in existence prior to the war. Tho Eketahuna County has just been revalued by the Government valuers. The' Superintendent of Workers Dwellings has advised the Mayor of Masterton that- the board will bo pleased to give consideration to the claims of Masterton for a share of the proposed 200 buildings, when the whole of tlio applications are. in. One Masterton resident lias had to remove his chattels four times during the past year, owing to the house being told over his head. The manager of the Masterton gas works' has been advised that the price of Westport coal has been advanced 2s. Gd. nor ton. Three' loans, aggregating .£BOO, were granted to Wairarapa soldiers by ' the Claims Boavd of tho Patriotic Association . -yesterday, to enable them to stock their farms. ' Mr J. W. Whelan, Government orchard instructor, intends giving a series of demonstrations in tho priming of trees in the Wairarapa next week. Tho Claims Board of tho' Wairarapa Patriotic Association lias decided to pay the first half-yen*'* rent of five Wairarapa soldiers, applying for Government land under the ballot. The amount in each case is to be treated as a loan.