WAIRARAPA NOTES

Dominion, Volume 20, Issue 44, 16 November 1926, Page 12

WAIRARAPA NOTES

Dominion Special. Carterton, November 15. At a meeting of the Featherston Borough Council a vote of condolence was passed with the relatives of the late Mrs. W. Beutou. Accounts amounting to £317 3s. sd. were passed for payment. An application lor a bath at the caretaker’s cottage at the Town Hall was referred to the building committee. A. W. Evans wrote forwarding the plan of shed erected without a permit, and it was decided to allow the shed to remain, subject to the plan being placed in the council’s records. The Public Works Department advised that, while restar is considered a suitable road sealing coat, bitumen and restar was considered a superior mixture. The Railway Department, in reply to a request to contribute half the cost of curbing and channelling in front of their property in Hayward Street, stated that it was an annual one, and covered expenditure that could not be authorised without reference to the head office. An automatic penny stamp-vending machine is to be installed at the Carterton Post Office. A revaluation of Carterton borough propertv is at present being made. The shop dav held during the week by the Carterton I’lunket Society was very successful. The receipts totalled £lB Is 7d. The competition for a cake was won by Mrs. J. Lenihan. Advice has been received that the Grandmaster for New Zealand (Mr. L. Aitken, Auckland) of the Manchester Unitv of Oddfellows, will officially visit’Greytown on Saturday next, lhe Wellington district officers will also attend. „ On Sunday night, at 10.45, the Carterton Fire Brigade were called to an outbreak of fire in a bedroom of a detached building at the Oxford boardinghouse, in High Street. The structure comprised three rooms, used as bedrooms, and the outbreak was discovered in a room at the east end, occupied by Mr. Wilson. There were two beds in this room, and it is surmised from the indications of a burnt-out pocket of a coat that a lighted pipe was responsible for the fire, lhe coat had apparently been laid on _ the unoccupied bed and ignited it. lhe outbreak was suppressed with very little damage to the room ■