LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 3144, 23 March 1909, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The sheep dipping season will clos at the end of this month. Farmers are reminded that the Act will be rigorously enforced, and anyone exposing sheep affected with lice for sale is liable to be prosecuted.

Athletes are notified that nominations for the Waikanae Athletic Sports, which take place on Easter Saturday, close with the secretary, Mr T. H. Parata, Waikanae, on Thursday next.

In comparison with past years very little green feed will be sown in the district during this season, as the favourable weather experienced has given pastures such growth as to guarantee good .winter feed.

A meeting of thcKaituna Farmers Union will be held this evening, for the purpose of electing a delegate to attend the conference to be held in Masterton to-morro v to discuss the question of the establishment of freezing works in the Wairarapa.

It is expected that the membership of the local golf club will be considerably strengthened by the addition ot quite a large number of new members, who have signified their intention of takng up the this season. There is a probability of the club engagng the services of a firstclass "coach" early in the season, and the matter will be dealt with at the annual meeting of the club on Friday next.

A number of the members of the Opaki Rifle Club intend taking part in the North Rangitikei Rifle Association meeting on April 9th and 10th. There will be keen competition for the Tonsey shield in the Teams match. The Opaki team has already, won this valuable shield twice in succession, and if they are again-successful at the coming meeting the trophy will berime the property of the Opaki Rille Club.

Sportsmen are looking forward with keen interest to the opening of the deer shooting season in the Wairarapa, which commences on Api*il Ist, and continues until May 15th. Favoured with a most favourable season deer are in splendid condition, and they are reported to be very plentiful in the Martinborough district and on the East Coast.

The Agricultural Department's estimate of the area of wheat, oats, and barley for threshing and the yields for the season in New Zealand are: Wheat, 252,391 acres, 8,328,903 bushels, average 33 bushels; oats, 407,037 acres, 17,095,554 bushels, average 42 bushels; barley, 48,853 acres, 1,661,002 bushels average 34 bushels. The amount of wheat and flour on hand at October 31st, 1908, as per returns, was 1.761,534 bushels.

Anticipating the opening of the golf season in Masterton, a number of enthusiasts in the game are already practising with the ardour that so characterises followers of the sport. Favoured with an ideal summer the links at Lansdowne are in splendid order. The grass mower is being worked with splendid results on the course, and the top dressing the greens have received should make them in better condition than they have ever been. The season is expected to be opened after Easter, but the exact date has not yet been arranged.

The ordinary meeting of the 1.0. G.T. Lodge was held in the Dominion Hall last evening, C.T. Bi*o. Gilbert presiding. There was a fair attendance of members. One new member was initiated, and one proposed for membership. Greetings received from Queen's Diamond Jubilee Lodge, Blenhejm, were heartily reciprocated. Sis. Richards from 31 Loyal Nelson Lodge, Nelson, was present. The programme for the next meeting will be a "Three Minutes Temperance Speech,

A ladies' Hockey Club is to be formed at Dalefield.

The gross receipts at the bazaar recently held in Eketahuna in aid of the Presbyterian Chruch building fund amounted to £BB 16s 2d.

The monthly meeting of the Managers of the Technical f-chGol will be held on Friday evening next, at 8 o'clock, in the Technical school building. Mr C. H. Besley has just landed two boat loads of sheep in Tirnaru from Gisborne. The cost in freight was £1,360, and the bill for wharfage was £4O. Over £4O has already been collected in Napier towards the Penguin stewardesses' memorial fund. Mrs Frank Moeller collected £ls ol'that amount. At a public meeting held at.Hastings in connection with the same movement £ll was collected in the room.

As showing the excellent season being experienced by dairy farmers this season, a farmer of the Fernridge yesterday informed an Age reporter that his dairy herd latt month returned him one pound per head, whilst at this period last year his cows were practically dr}. The clover crops on the Fernridge are now being harvestxl, and very good returns are being secured. The heads are exceptionally well filled, and the seed is of good quality arid colour. The price promises to be quite up to recent years, last year'f price being elevenpence per lb.

The Masterton Orchestral Society have again commenced their practices for the winter. The Society will hold its second practice to-night, in the Y.M.C.A. rooms. A very good programme has been selected for their first concert, which is to take place in a few weeks' time. There are some splendid crops of potatoes growing on the Fernridge this season, and a pleasing feature is that the whole are practically free from disease of any kind. Mr Boyle has a very fine crop of eighteen acres of the "Up-to-date" variety, which is expected to return an exceptionally heavy yield.

Mr R. Rigg, contractor for the septic tank system at the Fernridge School, expects to finish the work this week. The whole of the cement work and drains are completed, as well as the building, and one or two small details have only to be attended to before the work is handed over to the committee.

Speaking of the wreck of the Penguin, the A.M.P. Society organ says.Among those on board it was to be expected that a not inconsiderable proportion would be members of our Society,/ and this expectation has proved to be correct, as already notice of eleven claims upon the Society has been received, including one under an industrial policy. In two cases the policies were effected in 1908, and a similar number was taken out only in the previous year. It is probable that considerably more than £2,000 will need to be paid by the Society in settlement.

The election of a member of Parliament for the Northern Maori seat, in succession to the late Mr Hone Heke, took place on Saturday, and resulted in the return of Dr Peter H. Buck, a supporter of the Young Maori Party's advanced platform. The new member is a Government supporter, and one of the medical officers appointed by the State to work among the Maoris. He is thirty years of age, and was born in Taranaki. Dr Buck was educated at the Urenui Public School and the Te Aute College, and graduated at Otago University College. He has been returned to the House by an overwhelming majority.

William Smart, whose leg was fractured in a railway accident at Matahiwi recently, died in the Dannevirke hospital on the evening of the 17th inst., death being due to fat embolism in the brain affecting the vital centres. This condition arose directly from the fracture of the leg. Fat embolism is caused by small particles of fat removed from the marrow of the broken bone, and carried by means of the blood vessels to various ■ parts of the body. When these particles of fat reach the vital portions of the brain, the person affected becume& unconscious, and if the particles remain, death is the result.

The following classes will resume work at the Technical School to-day: —Dressmaking, Miss M. Johnston, 2.30 to 4.30 and 7 to 9 p.m.; Woodcarving, Mr Gardiner; Sign writing, Mr E. J. Chilton; Plumbing Theory, Mr A. J. Parton; Book-keeping, Mr C. JS. Haslam, all at 7 to 9 p.m. Owing to the absence of Mr C. N. Haslam, the instructor in the English and Arithmetic subjects, that class did not meet on Monday evening, but will meet instead on Wednesday evening next, at the usual time. Pupils desirous of attending this and other classes as holders of free places are reminded that their certificates of proficiency in Standard 6 must be produced on admission to the class.

The quarterly meeting of th* Oddfellows' Lodge was held last evening, Bro. W. S. Lett, N.G., being in the chair. Bro. Jno. Boxhall announced his intension of presenting a gold medal to the Brother who introduced the most new members during the current year. A committee was/ set up to take all necessary preliminary steps for the formation of a juvenile Lodge of Oddfellows. A letter of recommendation was granted to Bro. Jesse Apperley, une of the oldest and most respected of the Lodge members, who is shortly leaving for a trip to England. One new member was duly initiated into the Order, Joseph Dixon, P.G.M., acting as initiating master. Five candidates were proposed for membership, who, with the six proposed at the previous meeting, show that the numerical strength of the Lodge is increasing rapidly.

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