COUNTRY NEWS

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 260, 30 July 1919, Page 10

COUNTRY NEWS

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WAIRABAPA

At a special meeting held (o consider a committee's proposal that a loan of ,£45.000 be raised for permanent road improvements, the l>'eallierston County Council resolved to take steps as to borrowiui: .Sll.OtlO for constructing and iarsealiug the Peathcrston-Murlinborough Koad (eleven miles)'; .£'6500 tor plant; •£6OOO for land aud roadmen's cottages; and ,£2OOO lor erecting buildings on the Lake ferry reserve, to replace the hotel destroyed by fire recently. As a result of the resolution passed at the last ordinary meeting, tho Masterton'Borough Council met for the first time last evening ns a committee of the whole. It was decided to adjourn the 'meeting until to-night, in order that councillors might attend tho political meeting. Mrs. E. J. Riddiford and daughter expect to leave England about August on the return to Now Zealand. _ , Tho schools of the Wairurapa district will close for tho midwinter Vacation on Friday next. The Masterton br.mch of the Labour Department report that very little work is offering just now, wit]/ the result that there is a great deal of wueinploy,ment locally. The foreign mission fund of the Masterton Methodist Church has a sum of ■£6(i 10s. to credit tin's year, against JcTi 10s. at this time last year. The services, however, have not yet terninated, and it is expected that last year's total will be exceeded. Tho opening of the dairy season at the end of. August is likely to prove an anxious time tor dairy factory managers. In anticipation or a successful season many factories have arranged for the installation of new and more up-to-date machinery, but it is now found to be almost impossible to obtain the necessary plant. ' A combined meeting of the Presbyterian Women's Missionary Union of Lansdowne, Kopuaranga, and Wangaehu branches was held in Lansdowne Church on Monday last, Mrs. Halliday (president; presiding. Tncre was u large attendance of members, who listened with great interest to an address by Sister Chnstobel. Mrs. H. T. Wood, president of the Presbyterian Association, als.o addressed the meeting. Mrs. Halliday presented Miss Miller, of Bannister btreet, vice-president of P.W.M.U., with a handbag and purse, as a small token of acknowledgment of her interest and her help during Mrs. Halliday's absence m England, The ladies of the church provided afternoon tea.