PAHIATUA NEWS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9717, 12 February 1910, Page 6

PAHIATUA NEWS.

(From Our Resident Reporter). Friday. To morruw (Saturday) the annual Club match between the Masterton and Pahiatua Tannia Clubs will take olace on the local course. The following players will represent Pahiatua: —Misses R. and L. K. Hughes and Messrs G. Swamson, O. H Druce, R. .Ulrich, W. E. Collins. W. J Collins, S. Reese, J. Osburne-Lilly and J. Bolton. The two ladies and the first four male player 3 will represent Pahiatua in the second round of the "Country Cup" competition, wnich will also be played on the local courts to-morrow. News uf a very sad nature, to the effect that Mr Thomas Brown, of "Clifton,'' Mangatainoka and "Waihi," Wangaehu, Masterton. passed away this afternoon, reached towu about 3.30 p.m. this afternoon. Captain Kueke and Lieutenant Nicholson, of the Salvation Army, were given a welcome in the Barracks last evening. Mr Stan Whyte, who mtt with the accident in the Steeplehass Competition on Show Day, is, it is pleasing to state, almost quite well again. During the month of January, twelve patients were admitted into the Pahiatua Hospital, and eleven discharged, and at the present time there'are six patiens in the institution,,five males and one female. At the meeting of' Tr jslees. yesterday, at which Mr J. D. Wilson, presided, a committee consisting of Messrs E. B. Hare, G. G. Taylor and the Chairman, were appointed to report on the cost of a well and eauipment for a water supply. The secretary reported a good credit balance at the bank. A meeeting of the A. and P. Committee will be held to-morrow evening. At the Drill Hall this afternoon, Mr H. G. Barker, senior, chief assistant of the Veterinary Laboratory, and who is in charge of the Pathological exhibits of the Department of Argiculture, which were on view at the recent show, gave a very interesting discourse on Pathology.SpeakiiiK of mammitis in cows Mr Barker said the disease was a most contagious one, and a man milking a cow with this complaint was liable to n-*3s it on to all the other cows i >it he. milked. With regard to w -ins in horses, cattle and sheep, something should be given the animals, not only to kill up the worms, but to build up the system afterwards. Willi regard to hydatids, Mr Barker spoke strongly on the large number of dogs about the country that were practically useless, and it was through dogs that human beings contracted this disease and in New Zealand there was 25 per cent, more hydatids, in comparison to the Old Country. A certain number of dogs were essential in this country, but their place was outside of private houses, and he warned parents against letting dogs lick their little one's hands. The speaker illustrated his lecture, which was most interesting, by the specimens

of various sampl.s of different diseases in torses, sheep and cattle which he had on exhibition, and no donbt many present were told some plain home facts about their stock which they had little idea of.