CARTERTON NEWS.
(From Our Own Correspondent.) Thursday. At the local telephone exchange an improvement in connection with "ringing up" was commenced this week. Only the exchange is rung up now, the number required being given, the attendant connects and rings up the party wanted. Mr F. Meenkin has grown an excellent crop of Up-to-Date potatoes on his farm at Ahiakouka. The crop is free from blight or pest of any kind, which is attributed to careful selection. It is aatimated to yield from 15 to 20 tons to the acre. Constable and Mrs Ingram, who have been away on a short holiday visit North, returned home thi* afternoon. The South Wairarapa County Council's road staff to-day removed a large root of wood which had been noticeable above the road surface near Mr Herrick's property in Moreton road. The obstruction had been eyed with vengeance by cyclists for some time. In the list of passes in th law examinations, is noticed the names of Mr E. M. Beechey, contracts, property 1., criminal law and torts; Mr J. J. Mead, evidence. Among the names of the seventy candidates added to the previous number of 475, as having passed the matriculation examination, is that of Mary G. Johnston, of Carterton.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9703, 28 January 1910, Page 6
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207CARTERTON NEWS. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9703, 28 January 1910, Page 6
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