LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9039, 4 March 1908, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The overdraft of the Masterton Borough Council stands at £7,498 2s lid.

The Borough Gas Committee has decided to purchase a second-hand gas exhauster from the Wanganui Corporation for £BS.

The output of butter from the Masterton factory has not appreciably diminished this last week or so. The quantity turned out daily is still at an average of GOOIbs.

During the past week the milk supply at the Nireaha Cheese Factory has decreased from 1,300 gallons per day to 900 gallons. The tests range from about 3.5 to 4.1.

It is stated, says the "Eketahuna Express," that poaching on an extensive scale is carried on in the streams bordering on the boundary of the district under control of the sub-com-mittee of the Acclimatisation Society.

The Gas and Finance Committee of the Borough Council recommended to the Council last evening that a sum of £25 be voted to the Fire Brigade towards the conference funds. The Council adopted *.he recommendation. :

At the Baths, Dixon street, tomorrow, the Masterton Ladies' Swimming Club wiil hold a Carnival, when a number of first-class medals and trophies will be competed for. The sports will commence at 2 o'clock, and afternoon tea will be provided.

St. Matthew's Choir is at present busy practising special music for a recital to be given shortly. Among the items being rehearsed are tho well-known pieces, "The Wilderness" (Wesley), and Mendelsohn's "Hear My Prayer." The necessary funds have been granted by the Wellington Education Board for the re-buildinsr of the schools and teachers' residences at Maku and Nireaha, which were recently destroyed by bush fires. The grant for Nireaha is £1,232, and for Maku £350.

Inspectors Tennant and Bakewell are at present engaged in inspecting the schools in the Forty Mile Bush district. Amongst the matters they are enquiring into is the question of erecting a school on Kange Road, and increasing the accommodation at the Pukehinau school.

In connection with the raising of the stop-bank round the Park extension the Acting-Engineer of the Borough (Mr W. T. Mansfield) reported to the Council last evening that he was preparing specifications for the Park Committee providing for the excavation of a portion of the extension about 40ft wide, to be used as a waterway, the material taken out to be used for widening and strengthening the stop-bank.

The tar-macadamising of Queen straet was discussed at the Borough Council meeting last evening. The Mayor stated that the Engineer's estimate for the cost based on expeiiments.was about £3O per chain. A discussion ensued as to how the £IOOO set down in the loan schedule for the work'should be spent, but it was eventually decided to tarmicadamize fifteen chains to the north of the Post Office, and twenty chains south of the same point.

The beautiful Makuri Gorge, undoubtedly one of the most attractive sights of the North Island, has so far escaped scatheless from the bush fires, which have ruined many othsr scenic resorts through the bush country. This is a matter for gratification, as the gorge is considered by many tourists to be unexcelled in beauty by even the more celebrated gorges. The nearest bufih fire has not aproached to within live or six miles of the gorge. - The Conciliation Board has decided, in connection with the butter-work-ers' dispute, to open up communication with both sides with a view to holding a conference at Palmerston North about March 16th. The agreement between the Shearers' Union and the employers will probably be signed about the end of the present week. Mr J. C. Cooper will sign for the employers, and Mr E. W. Abbott, secretary of the Shearers' Union, for the Union. The Board will probably sit at Wellington on March 14th to put the shearers' agreement in order prior to filing it and having it made into an award.

The Borough Council decided last evening, on the recommendation of the Fire Brigade Committee, to strictly enforce the by-law restricting the use of water through hosss, etc., for gardens to contrivances held by hand. Cr Haughey thought that it might not be judicious to enforce th 3 by-law at the present stagp, when the position of the water supply had slightly improved, and the headworks improvements would further considerably improve matters.' The Council, however, decided that there was no justification for the nonenforcement of the by-law at present. Cr Haughey considered it would be impossible to carry the by-law out strictly, but he was satisfied with the Council's decision so long as everyone was summoned for breach of the law.

Mr C. F. B. Livcsay, Architect of Wei lington. has moved to more convenient rooms in the National Mutual Chambers, Customhouse Quav, (adjoining the Head Office of tlie Hank of N.Z.) ' Address— P.O. Box 771. Telephone 2(592.

Send the documents of your importations to MESSRS J. J. CURTIS & CO. LTD., Customhouse shipping and Forwarding Agents, Customhouse Quay Wellington, who will quickly clear, pass and forward the goods to you. Moderate, charges.

The annual picnic of the Kaiparoro School will be held on March 12th.

The annual-meeting of the Wairarapa Pastoral ■• and Agricultural Society will be held on May 2nd.

In future the Carterton Volunteers will parade once a week, viz., every Wednesday evening.

During the past week there has been a drop of over 150 gallons in the supply of milk to the Featherston Dairy Factory.

Mr T. Brown, erstwhile proprietor of the Commercial Hotel, Pahiatua, has purchased Beetham's Estate in that district, comprising about 1,230 acres.

A civil sitting of the S.M. Court ■vill be held at Masterton to-morrow. Among the cases set down for hearing is a claim for £2OO for breach of a contract to clear land of weeds, etc.

The drought has killed a large number of trees in the Morison's Bush district. The trees, comprising a large and valuab'.e plantation on Mr T Kempton's' property, have all died through the want of water.

As nearly all the wells in the Lower Valley district have run dry well-sinkers have been in great demand. In every case water has been found after driving the pipes several feet further down.

There arc now 185 names on the roll of the Martinborcugh School, with an average attendance of 157. Complaints are being made as to the lack of adequate accommodation at the school, and it is contended that the Education Board will have to seriously face thij matter shortly.

The local branch of the Farmers' Union has .not shown much vitality lately, but the Pahiatua Unioif, ~ which not long since was a very inert organisation, has, according to a prominent member, taken a new. lease of life. Meetings are now well attended, and keen interest is taken in the Union's affairs generally.

Orchard-robbing appears to be rife in-other places in the Wairarapn besides Masterton. Residents of iv'orison's Bush and Featherston are complaining of the depredations of "midnight visitors." The ?ther evering a settler had every plum and peach tree in his large orchard stripped.

There is a diminished demand for ice in Masterton just now, according to the manager of the butt?r factory (Mr Windle). The ice making plant, which has a daily capacity of over three hundred weight, is not turning' out that quantity now, as the demand does not warrant it.

Mr F. Bright, a settler of Eketahuna, informed a Wairarapa Age reporter, yesterday, that the fire on his property on Sunday last wrs the worst he has experienced. This is the third occasion during the past few months that fire has swept Mr Brigbt's property. Mr Turner, of Hukanui, states that the bush fires have done damage on his farm to the extent of over £IOO.

Aa the season for dipping sheep, which ends on March 31st, is well advanced, t ;, e Inspector of Stock now intends to keep a sharp look-out for lice on sheep found in the saleyards throughout the district; al~o travelling sheep. Sheep-owners would,, therefore, do well by making a careful examination o£ their flocks beforeremoval. It is hard);/ necessary to remir.d farmers that by exposing, lousy sheep in any saleyard or driving them along any highway would in either case constitute an offence under "The Stock Act. 1393."

Cr. Prentice tabled a somewhat, sensational motion at the Co-ancil meeting last evening, to the effect that the Council build another bath alongside the present one in Dixon Street for the use of ladies, and that the present bath be extended along tothe end of the section in which it stands. The Council smiled incredulously as the motion was read, and the Mayor was heard to murmur something about a notice of motion that "mixed bathing be allowed." Cr Prentice's motion comes on at next Council meeting.

A Masterton resident, who left the employ of "Tattersall's," Hobart, about five years ago, where he was engaged on the clerical staff, 'States that in a letter received recently from a friend on the staff of the great sweep syndicate, it was mentioned that there was a likelihood of the sweeps being abandoned. "There is too much palm oil necessary now," the letter ran. The Masterton resident said it "'as bad enough when he was there, but it must be costing the sweet) people enormous sums 10 keep the business going at present, under the stringent application of the laws in the different Australian States and New Zealand.

I Either badly-dipped sheep, or sheep dipped with a bad mixture, has been responsible for a considerable number of Poverty Bay farmers being fined of late for exposing sheep infected with lice for sale 7 . As the local stock officials intend administering the law more stringently in respect of lousy sheep the careful dipping of local sheep will be to the interest of farmers. The poor condition of many flocks consequent on the drought will mean that lice will be more noticeable than in previous yeais. The new table dip recently erected by Mr W. H. Buick, Upper Opaki, has been visited by farmers from all parts of the district, and has been universally approved. The strongest point of the clip is that it gives the animals a thorough immersion, and this is not always accomplished with ordinary race dips.

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The quarterly meeting of the Wairarapa Licensing Bench will be held at the Courthouse, Carterton, on Friday, at noon.

The Public Works Department have the tender of Messrs MacWenzie and Brenchley, of Mauriceville, at £4BB, for additions to the Eketahur.a Post Office.

The Masterton Amateur Swimming Club has been granted the use of the public bath in Dixon Street on March 12th, when the Club intends to hold a carnival.

At a meeting of the directors of the Workman's Friend Building Society, it was decided to dispose of the sum of £3OO by ballot on Tuesday, March 31st. The secretary announced that subscriptions had been coming in satisfactorily, thus causing appro-

priations to become more frequent,

The Clerk of Works of the Welling-

ton Education Board (Mr A. MciDougall) has received instructions 'fro.'.) the Board to report on the practicability of removing the Eketahuna School from where it stands at present to the site recently purchased from Mr Anders Anderson.

The weather in Masterton, yesterdav threatened in a somewhat serious manner to actually "break,", but light spasmodic showers only fell during the day, while the atmosphere was oppressively warm. Naturally, a slight freshening up of pastures will result from the ahowers, but the farmers' prayer is for a long, long downpour which will spread itself over days instead of hours, or rather minutes. Fairly heavy rain fell at Carterton yesterday morning. |

A resident of Masterton walking Tfame after a theatrical performance J!the Town Hall a few evenings ago stepoed into a deep aperture near the sidewalk in Lincoln road, which was caused through the progress of the Borough Council improvements to the thoroughfare, and which wad unlighted. The Council decided last evening to reimburse the resident referred "to the cost of a new pair of trousers, as his own were badly damaged through the mishap.

The Borough finances stand as follow:—General Account, dr., £6,855 2s sd; Gasworks, dr., £lO5 7slod; Library, cr., £4l 7s sd; Deposit, cr., £2lO ios; Waterworks, dr., £538 123 9(1; Abattoir, cr., £77 9s 2d; Special Drainage, dr., £54 13s Id; Bannister street, dr., £42 Sn 2d; Loan, £25,000, dr., £231 5.=; 3d. The loan schedules stand as follow: cr.. £ll4 4s 4d; lmpruve- "« merits, £25.0u0-Schec)ule A, cr., £4 17s 7d; schedule B, cr.. £I,OGB 133 8:1; schedule C, cr., £219 4s 9:1; schedule J), cr., £442 ISs4d; schedule E, cr., £ll9 83 9d; schedule F, dr., £29 6s 3d.

An advertiser requires a lady help,

The Masterton Municipal Baths will ba closed from 10 a.m. to-day, till 6 a.m. to-morrow.

Mr W. H. Cruickshank advertises particulars of a number of handysisid small farms properties suited for dairynig or fattening purposes. Mr W. H. Cole notifies the arrival of the latest designs in wall-papers, freizes, and house decorations.

The Masterton Borough Council notify that proceedings will ba taken against the owners of unregistered dogs. ■ • ■ ■ ■

The Hawkes Bay Farmers' Cooperative Association, Ltd., advertise particulars of a freehold property of 1,244 acres, with all necessary improvements and conveniences.

Mr James Peters announces elsewhere in this morning's issue that in the course of a few days he will commence business in Masterton as hairdresser and tobacconist, in premises adjoining the Prmce of Wales stables. The shop is.being fitted up on the most up-to-date lines, and the services of a first-class tonsorial artist have been engaged. The price for all saloon work will be sixpence, including haircutting.

A representative of the New Zealand Retailers' Association will be in town for a few days to enroll subscribers. It is the intention of Mr A. C. Elliott, general manager for the North Island, to visit Masterton at an early date, to meet the members and deliver an address on the objects nf the Association. Meetings have already rjeen held at Palmerston North, and Dannevirke, and in each town about 45 traders have become members. ANOTHER "L.K.G." TRIUMPH.

At the recent Christehurch Show the " Lawrence-Kennedy - Gillies " Milking Machine was awarded the Gold Medal and Highest Award as the machine which ahowechthe beat thought and workmanship calculated to provide the farmer with better methods and machinery. It ia significant that, although all other inachines were exhibited, the "L.K.G." secured the Highest Award. In your own interests, Mr Parmer, you should learn more about this machine. Write for further particulars to J. B. MacEwan and Co., Ltd., Sole Agents. U.S.S, Go's Buildings, Wellington.