CARTERTON NEWS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 3139, 17 March 1909, Page 5

CARTERTON NEWS.

(From Our Resident Reporter.) Tuesday. Mr Edwards., the newly-appointed engineer to the Wairarapa South County Council, has arrived here. To-day he was taken over the district under the Council's control by Mr Alf. Johnson, who has acting overseer. Most of the members of the local Fire Brigade team, who have been attending the Auckland Demonstration returned home last" evening. Although somewhat disappointed at not winning any prizes, they were delighted with the trip. Inspector Miller, of the Department of Health, was on an official visit to Carterton to-day. ' The monthly meeting of the School Committee was held last evening, Mr John Brown presiding. It was resolved to abandon the technical classes, with- the exception of the bookkeeping, which is to be started should sufficient inducement offer. Messrs J. Callister, H. Judd, .A. Wilson and the headmaster were appointed to go into the matter of the working of the agricultural class. The headmaster reported that the | roll number was 307, and that the annual concert would be held on Friday, April 16th. It was reported that a piano had baen been purchased from Mr J. S. Pepper, at a cost of £22, and the amount owing on same was about £l2. It was hoped to reduce this amount considerably by the concert. I The Chamber of Commerce met last evening, when it was decided to defer further communication with the various Chambers of Commerce on the subject of better railway facilities, until the Minister of Railways' .promised reply in regard to the matter had been received. Messrs W. Toomath and W. W. Mansfield were appointed delegates on the deputation to again urge the Government's acceptance of Mr Buchanan's offer for the establishing of an experimental farm in the Wairarapa. It was decided to endeavour to get the time of the down afternoon mail altered from five past three to a quarter past three. The attention of the Postmaster-General is to be called to the fact that the Longbush mails carried past the Gladstone Post Office., half-an-hcur after the Gladstone mail leaves for Carterton, and is brought back by the five to four train, instead of reaching Carterton at 11 a.m., the time of arrival of the Gladstone mail. It was mentioned that the Clareviile mail went 'to Masterton .in the afternoon and back to Carterton neKt morning, so the chairman was instructed to talk the matter over with the Carterton Postmaster, and see if "an improvement could be effected.

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