CARTERTON NEWS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 3061, 4 December 1908, Page 7

CARTERTON NEWS.

(From Our Own Correspondent). CARTERTON, December 3. To-morrow will be a record day for ?the Dalefield Dairy Company. They "will pay out over £1,250, being an •advance on the month's milk supply at the rate of sixpence per pound of buttar-fat. This sum is far in excess of any month's payment since the Company started. Mr Peden, who has had temporary '•charge of the Carterton Library since the resignation of Miss Royd:Jiouse from that position, has been .permanently appointed to the office of Librarian. There will be no quaiterly session of the Licensing Committee this term, notice to that effect having been sent out to the members. The civii business ot the Carterton Magistrate's Court will be • /taken to-morrow by Messrs Jas. Brown and J. Bailey, J's.P., instaad of Mr W. P. James, S.M., so far as their jurisdiction extends. The delegat-d from the local Friendly Societies, appointed to attend the Conference to be held in "\Vellington, leave by the mail train to-day. Thursday. The prize 3 offered by the Wairarapa and East Coast Pastoral and Agricultural Society for the best kept .gardens at the Public Schools in Wairarapa have just been awarded by the judge, Mr A. R. Hadfield. Clareville School comes first with 74 points, Carterton and Gladstone with 71 points each tie for second place, Dalefield School 65 points fourth, Featherston School 63 points fifth, XYaingawa School also competed and .-showed a nicely kept garden. The judge's report stated on the whole the gardens and plots are in nice <order, and show a great improvement . all round on last year. Young stags and hinds are being captured at Longbush, Gladstone, by ■offifcers of the Acclimatisation - Society, for liberation in different part* of the Dominion.