PAHIATUA NEWS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9579, 28 August 1909, Page 6

PAHIATUA NEWS.

(From Our Resident Reporter). Friday. A meeting of the Pshiatua Racing Club will be held in tha Commercial Hotel on Tuesday evening next, at 7.30 o'clock. The Rev.Griffin, from Dannevirke, •will occupy the pulpit at the Methodist Church on Sunday morning.

Captain Whyte and Mrs Whyte returned from a holiday trip to Napier to-day. A meeting of the committee of the Pahiatua Debating Society was held in Mr Dallaston's rooms last evening. Arrangements were made for the final meeting to the Society, which will take the form of a social, on September 17th inst, This evening an interesting debate is to take place, the subject being "Is the New Zealand Government right in encouraging immigration?" Messrs Burns and Deans taking the affirmative and Measra Evans and Jones tha negative. For experimenting with manures, the Department have decided to utilise Mr Wakeman's half acre in the north of the Borough. The land is to be fenced and divided into six plots. Experimenting with various seeds and manures is to be carried out on an acre of ground on Mr J. Matthew's property at Mangahao. The result of these trials will' be waited foi with interest by the farmers of this district. A hockey match bet'v<""i the Kotoroas and Oete will i place on the local ground to-mono a. While the Poverty Bay—Bush football match was in progress it was very .noticeable how many of the spectators encroached on the field of | play, at times causing considerable annoyance to the players and the line umpires. It is to be hoped that during the Wairarapa—Bush match to-morrow, that spectators will keep behind the line, and not let themselves be carried away by excite-' ment. The match to-morrow promises to be an interesting one to watch, lind the ground is in splen- ! did conditon. The Wairarapa team will be entertained at the Com- j mercial Hotel at the conclusion of the match. The s f ntutory meeting of the Rexdale Dairy Company, Mangamaire, wan held on Wednesday last, Mr Bodmin presiding. The business of the previous meetings was confirmed, and all the provisional directors were re-elected directors with the exception of Mr Barron, vyho retired to his riot supplying milk to the factory. Mr Peter Lawson was elected to fill the vacancy, and Mr E. Bodmin was elected chairman of j directors for the ensuing year. Mr J. A. Walsh was appointed auditur, 1 and 700 of the Company's shares were allotted. 1

BALLANCE NOTES,

The approaches to the bridge at the butter factory are not yet completed, and settlers about here are complaining of the inconvenience caused. The factory is running four times a week, and will shortly be receiving milk daily. Nearly every farmer in the district is at present busy ploughing, and a large area oi land is being sown with oats. A fair amount of land is also being prepared for root crops. The new manager at the Tararua cheese factory, Mr Rae, is rapidly becoming popular with the suppliers. Lambs are now plentiful about here, and the district generally is looking exceedingly well, the grass .growing very quickly. The annual anniversary social and tea meeting in connection with the Methodist Church will be hald on Wednesday evening next. On Sunday anniversary services will be held, the Rev. Griffin, of Dannevirke, occupying the puplic in the evening. The piles for the bridges, four in number, are now ready for the docking, which I understand is at the Pahiatua railway station, ready to be carted to the bridges.