DISTRICT NEWS. MASTERTON HATTERS.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXI, Issue 90, 18 April 1911, Page 8

DISTRICT NEWS. MASTERTON HATTERS.

[BT TELEGKAPH — SPECIAL 10 THE POST.I MASTER TON, This Day. ' A mai' named Thomas Yates was found in a dam at Waingawa on Sunday night. He appeared before Mr. Eli Smith, J.P., yesterday, euarged with drunkenness, and was remanded for seven days for medical treatment. j The Masterton Co-operative Dairy Company is now making about fourteen boxes of butter daily, which it is intended to keep for local use. A successful sports gathering was held at Kopuaranga j'esterday. The newly-appointed town" clerk and borough engineer commenced his duties to-day. A company of Wellington amateurs, the "Mountebanks," concluded a season here last night, when they presented "The SnowbpH" to a very small audience. The Excelsior Hockey Club defeated a team from the Fetone Wednesday Club in & match yesterday by two goals to one. FEATKERSTON ITEMS. v [BX TELEGRAPH— SPECIAL TO TH3 POST-], FEATHERSTON, 17th April. After nearly seven weeks of dry weather rain lell on Friday and Saturday and was duly welcomed by all sections of the community. Mr. J. H. Fieldhouce, late of the Gross Creek Public School, has been appointed teacher at South Feathereton. There is a possibility of Mr. Goleman Phillips, solicitor, of Carterton, coming forward again as a candidate for this electorate. To date the election of two representatives of the Wairarapa and Forty-Mils Bush district* to the Wellington Harbour Board has not attracted any candidates from the South Wairarapa. dominations close on Wednesday. CARTER! ON NOTES. [BI TELEGRAPH — SPECIAL TO TH£ POST.} CARTERTON, This Day. . The Easter holidays passed off very quietly in the district. Beyond the tournament, held under the auspices of ( the local bowling club', there were- no local attractions, and conseouently a large number went to the Tauherenikau races and the sports at Kopuaranga. The rain that fell during the holidays did more , good than harm, and the fact of ■it being badly needed counterbalanced ajiy depressing effect it may have had on holiday-making. The annual meeting of the Wairarapa and East Coast P. and A. Society is to be held at Carterton on Friday, sth Ma3'. This week two large consignments of frozen carcases are being shipped away by the Wellington Farmers' Meat Company, of Waingawa. The Ara-wa carries 10,000 carcases of mutton, lamb, and beef for London, and the Kent 1000 carcases of mutton and a small parcel of beef for Liverpool and Glasgow. A team of local cricketers were defeated by 70 runs at Mangatainoka or. Friday by a combined team from Mangatainoka 'and ( Pahiatua. The Wellington Farmers' Meat Company, up to last Thursday had rmt through no fewer than 92,000 carcases of sheep and lambs, and over 500 head of cattle at its Waingawa works.