CARTERTON NEWS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9560, 5 August 1909, Page 6

CARTERTON NEWS.

(From Our Resident Reporter). Wednesday. A meeting of the ladies of St. Mark's Church was held yesterday afternoon, when it was decided to arrange a "welcome home" social to Mr and Mrs H. S. Moss. It was decided that the gathering should take the form of a progressive euchre party, and the ladies present formed themselves into a committee for the purpose of carrying out the arrangements in connection therewith. At the next meeting of the Borough Council an application from St. Mark's Church for a supply of water to drive the motor puW.er of the new pipe organ will be considered. It is stated that the application is going to receive some opposition. The flood at Dalefield on Monday last was the heaviest experienced there this year. The mortal remains of the late Mr Francis Mason, of Dalefield, were conveyed to Wellington this afternoon. and the interment takes place there to-morrow

The "Post's" Home correspondent writes that Mr H. S. Moss, Secretary of the Wairarapa and East Coast Pastoral and Agricultural Society, who has been attending a number of shows in the Old Country, was much interested in the manner in which buildings are erected for the purpose of housing the" stock each year. At Ayr and the Koyal Counties' Shows at Reading, ft appears as though large sums of money must have been paid for the timber and work of erecting accommodation. "At the latter Show, which is moved every year, I should have thought," spid Mr Moss, "that a Snowground could have been found well equipped with buildings." On the whole, Mr Moss thinks that the stock exhibited at the big provincial centres compare most favourably with the exhibits he saw at Reading. He was impressed witn the Royal Counties' Show, and •the excellence of most of the stock shown in cattle' and sheep. The King's Shorthorn champion bull was a very fine animal; also Files' champion ram, and Palmer's three shearling rams —these were first prizes. Lord and Lady Kothschild's Jerseys were beautifuranimals. Mr H. Judd, of Napier, is at present on a visit to Carterton.