WAIRARAPA NOTES

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 306, 20 September 1920, Page 8

WAIRARAPA NOTES

(From Our Own Correspondent.) Mr. William Perry presided at the meeting of the Masterton brunch of tho Farmers' Union on Saturday. Tho Un-der-Secretary of the Department of Immigration wrote, notifying that ex-ser-vice men and boys between the ages ot 17 and 20 were being granted free pas. snges from England, and asking *or estimate 0.9 to tho iuinihcr of inmusTftMls that could be employed in the district. It was resolved to ask those fanners needing the labour to notify the secretary within the next fortnight. It was decidcd to hold a meeting on Saturday, October 2, at 1 o'clock, to hear Major Morton, of tho Bristol and Dominions' i'rodncors' Association. 'Hugh Morrison, of Greytown, was appointed an nssessor to represent Wairarapa ht thn dispute between the sheenowners and the Wellington Shearers' Union, to be heard before the Conciliation Council on September 23. The annual effort, on behalf of tlitr Homo Mission I'lind of the Mnsterfon Methodist Church has resulted in a sum of ,£!O9 being collected, as Against .ffil for the p.vt year. During the past thm. months *.£220 has been raised for the Foreign Mission Fund of the same church. ~ , The snin of ,£227.5 fa. has been paid by fray nf subscription to the Masterton j\ T o. 2 Workers' Mutual Benefit Buildting". Societv. Redemptions have amounted to .C 717 lis. «nd working levies to ,£ll3 13s. It ha« been decided to hold a procession and sports at and n social (fathering in the evening, at Masterton. on Labour Dav. TV receipts from the various functions will he Apportioned betwen the funds for the nromotion nf ft fallen soldiers' memorial and the erection of a sw'tng I)"idge over the river nt the linwitnl, ami a band rotunda at tl"> hosnital. Very few wre left vacant in Masterton Onera ITous« on Snlnrdev evening, when theloca' Rnvnpo Club he'd its night." The whole of thfl entertainment was contributed bv a nni't'' of ,W Wpl"n»tfln Pnvnires, under fVio ](wlprsh'n °f Chief Pnvjiep Plrnnct RliiTidel'. Vnl'iw'ji" the installation of the Chief, a" eye'lent TirogmniTne nf inis'h. c vig p(1 storv was delivered. TCneh ;, pni tv« 3 encnrn-l and interest nen>y flnprirei'. "Aielivlnrf wHb • n cowir/Wlli. "Tlijif Tile''" Sim. i n wliicli f'" ■"•il.nc "-pr-> t"l-f>7i liv Snvflfrfe \i|TV T\ 1C"!I nnd T>p„l „-ho «""M. Vilfo'l fn Ti-ni-n Pp.-nrroq c Tf. Or l - Mar"u c MTI-S. Tj. J. "Till M. King, C. E. Nelson, and A. E. Russell.