COUNTRY NEWS

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 282, 25 August 1919, Page 8

COUNTRY NEWS

NOTES FROM VARIOUS CENTRES (From Our Special Correspondents.) WAIRARAPA The Mayor on Saturday received tlio following: telegram from ill'. B. 31. Wilson, Government representative, regarding the invitation to Lord Jellicoc to visit Alastorton: '"Tour letter of June 13 has been placed before Lord Jellicoe, who desires mo "to express his sinccro appreciation of the invitation extended to him. to visit Masterton, but his time is so fully occupied in important business in AYellington that he linds it quite impossible to take advantage of the invitation." At the annual meeting of the Wairarapa Soldiers' Club ilajor Cowles presided over a fair attendance. The annual report and balance-sheet were adopted, tlio president announcing that Mr. A. P. Whatnian- had handed in a cheque for the deiicit on the club's vork- ' ing amounting to i! 120. Mr. Whatnian was accorded a voto of thanks. In accordance with notices of motion circulated to members 'it 'was unanimously decided that all financial members of the N.Z.K.S. Association should bo entitled to free membership of the club, also that the name of the club should be changed to that of the Wairarapa. Soldiers' Hostel ,so as to conform to tho requirements of tho War Funds Act. The election of officers resulted as follows: President, Major A. Cowles (re-elected); vice-president, Captain E. Boctham, M.C. (re-elected); lion, treasurer, Mr. H. M. Boddington (re-elected); committee, Messrs. H. M. Baird, P. Boyle, Foster I M'Kcllar, and If. L. M'Laren. Tlio Wairarapa liugby seniors defeated Bush Union seniors at Carterton after a wretched game by 18 points to 5. Bush ju.uiors beat Wairarapa juniors by (i to

o. . Tho death oceured at Carterton on Saturday of Jlr. Alfred Booth, of Hawarden, at tho age of 73 years. The late Mr. Booth was Mayor of Carterton from 1891 to 1882. He was a prominent horticulturist. Ho leaves a grown-up family of tliVee sous and six daughters. A burglar visited Qreytown and broke into Messrs. Tate and Thompson's law oflice, but except for upsetting a quantity of legal papers and taking some postage stamps nothing was touched. The window of Mr. Tully's room was broken, and that is where the entrance was made. The store of the AV.P.C.A. was also broken into, and again only stamps were taken. It appears that Mr. H. Udys blacksmith shop was entered, and tools taken from there to effect the entrance to the different places. The funeral of the late Mr. Edward Bvnggins at Masterton on Saturday afternoon was Attended by a long cortege of friends, the lire brigade, and both the Municipal and Central Bands. The iollowing is a summitry of the work of tho Masterton branch of tho Repatriation Department 'for the month ended August 20The sum of ,£2925 was grant.ed to enable seven returned soldiers to start in business, and loans for furniture amounting to .£IBB 10s. 6d„ and advances for tools and equipment amounting to ,£34 16s. 6d. were disbursed, Lieutenant-Colonel A. Cowles, headmaster of the Carterton District High School, has arranged with' Colonel A. B. Charters, C.M.G., D.5.0., previous to the war inspector under the Wellington Education Board, and prior to that 'loadmaster of the Groytown District High School, and assistant >at tho Masterton District High School, to givo a lccturo upon the war, at Carterton, to the children of tho Carterton, Greytown, and all adjacent schools.

MANAWATU

The general roll for tho new Manawatu electorate is now in the hands of tho registrar. It contains 5990 names. The death occurred at tho Otaki Hospital on Saturday of Mr. Marcus Olsen, a well-known resident. The cause or death was pneumonia. At'the annual and; final meeting of tho Bunnythorpe Patriotic Society the bal-ance-sheet showing the w'orking of the society since its inception was adopted. Tho balance-sheet showed that JSBBI 6s. 9d. was spent on soldiers' comforts, while .£72 7s. Gd. had been collected for other purposes. Tho need of a new school at Bainesse has been apparent for some time past, and tho settlers, with tho assistance of the member for the district, Mr. E. Newman. M.P.), who have worked hard to secure the concession, will be pleased that their efforts have been successful-. The following letter in reference to tho movement has been received by Mr. Newman from the Minister of Education"l have pleasure in advising that. Cabinet approved the grant for the erection of a school at Baine.sse. on the site recently, acquired for the purpose, and, the Wanganui Education Board has been notified accordingly."