WAIRARAPA.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXX, Issue 4459, 5 July 1875, Page 7

WAIRARAPA.

(from our own correspondent.) Grettown, June 12. _ On the most reliable authority I have it that the returning officer, Mr. Tully, who presided at the so-called election of the Local Board of Greytown, has been advised that the gentlemen who were returned as.commissioners are no commissioners, that having been the decision of the Court of Appeal. Two courses are therefore immediately open, either for the Superintendent to appoint the so-called members of the Local Board as members legally of a Board, under the 15th clause of the Local Boards Act, or for five gentlemen to be nominated at a public meeting, with a request that the Superintendent would appoint them a •Board, which it is understood he would he agreeable to do. Which .course will he taken will soon he known. At the time the Highways Act became operative there was an opinion held that each ward of the large highway districts should have a small Board of its own. _ A movement is now being made in this direction, a meeting being called to consider the question. Harris, from Blenheim, who succeeds Mr. Nation as manager of the branch of the IBank of New Zealand at Masterton, has arrived, and a complimentary dinner to Mr. Nation was given at the Club Hotel, Masterton, on Monday evening last. _ Mr. H. S. Wardel!, 11. M., was in the chair ; and Mr. W. H. Beetham was in the vice-chair. A meeting of the Masterton Highway Board was held on Saturday, June 5, four members being present. Some ordinary business was transacted, and accounts to the amount of £l7O passed. The accounts of the Wairarapa and East Coast Pastoral, Agricultural, and Horticultural Association .have been published in the Standard. The accounts are to 31st March, 1875. The balance from last year was £llO ; subscriptions received since, £9O ; entrance fees, £39 ; gate receipts, £27 ; sundries, £5 ; total, £270. The expenditure was—Salary, &c, £3O ; medals, £44 ; erecting yards, £76 ; sundries, £46 ; total, £197 ; leaving £73 as a balance to the good. The association has been carrying on excellently for two or three years. Mr. Lee, Inspector of Schools, has been fully engaged. He went as far as Mauticeville and°inspected the Masterton school, under Mr. Lillington,. this week, and, according to the Wairarapa News, expressed himself well satisfied. with the teaching and discipline. Mr. Lee will probably visit the Greytown school on Monday, arrange for furniture for new school, and local supervision of examination of teachers in' July next, settle the question of site of Woodside-Matarau school, and after visiting three or four more schools, will probably reach town towards the end of the week when, with Mr. Kenneth Wilson, 31. A., head master Wellington College, he will have- within a period of rather more than a week to prepare from two to three dozen examination papers. It cannot be said that 3lr. Lee has easy times of it.