CARTERTON NEWS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 3106, 1 February 1909, Page 6

CARTERTON NEWS.

(from Our Resident Reporter). Saturday. Bowling is taking on well here this season, and the membership of the ■local club is in a flourishing state. The building trade here at the present time is slack, the chief work being alterations and repairs. Bro. T. W. Foster has been appointed to represent the Hope of Carterton Tent, .1.0. R., at the conference, which is to be held in Masterton.early .in February. TheParkvale Branch of St. Mark's Sunday School has now nearly a roll number of 50. This is highly satisfactory for so scattered a district. Mr W.. Downard, of Carterton, is at present on a holiday visit to the Pahiatua district. The local State School will re-open on Monday morning. The teachers who have been enjoying their holidays in other parts of the province, returned home to-day. Property-owners within the drainage area, who have been availing themselves of the time-limit for connecting their premises with the drainage .-system, are now being hurried on to have the work completed. Mr and Mrs W. Toomath, of High street, who with their youngest daughter, have been on a week's.holiday tj Blenheim ; returned home on Friday evening. There is a large number of empty houses in Carterton. Mrs E. Eagle, senr., together with Mrs Davison, and her daughter, are at present on a holiday at JPe•tone. Misu Daisy Smith, of Palmerston North, is at present spending a fortnight's holiday .in Carterton, as the guest of Mr and Mrs J. H. Wake.lin, of Victoria street It is understood that an effort is shortly to be made to establish a sports chib in Carterton. Gladstone and Ahiaruhe have successful sports clubs, and why not Carterton? It very often happens that animals impounded here eat more during their detention than they realise in cash when they are submitted to

auction. To avoid this in the future, the Council has given the ranger permission to hold two sales a . week--on Wednesdays and Saturdays, I A laugh was raised at the County Council meeting on Saturday by a councillor remarking that a farmer had told him that the uneven nature of a certain road nearly churned his milk on the way to the factory. Mr Walter Dudson, son of Mr Joseph Dudson, of this town, has received an appointment as pupil teacher at the Newtown School, and left on Saturday afternoon for Wellingon to take up his duties on Monday. Mr Dudson was among those who recently passed the matriculation examination. A sharp shock of earthquake was experienced here this morning at j 6.15 o'clock. J A few minutes after 10 o'clock on Saturday evening a fire broke out in the residence of Mr J. Flyim, Brooklyn Road. The Fire Brigade were quickly on the scene, but the tire was i extinguished without their assistance.