CARTERTON NEWS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10029, 1 July 1910, Page 6

CARTERTON NEWS.

Own Correspondent. Thursday. Mr i?„ Stempa, one of the local butchers, has purchased the local district rights of the Curry system of meat curing. Mr G. H. Herbert, Borough Engineer, has resigned trie position, having been appointed engineer to the Patea County. Messrs Johnson Bros, of Parkvale, are procuring a 6 h.p. compound three-speed Burrell road engine, mounted on spings, with a maximum woking pressure of 200 lbs to the square inch. It is a comparatively powerfulengine, suitable to the district, and will draw a load of about thirty tons. The Borough Council has accepted the offer of Mr T. Ray of a one-acre gravel pit on Belvedere Road for £SO. Mr F. Fairbrother, has resigned the secretarial position of the Carterton Hockey Club, on account of his leaving next week for Cnristchurch. Messrs H. Meyriek and C. R. P. Armstrong left yesterday with exhibits for the Championship Poultry Show which opened to-day at Hast-

ings. Mr Meyriek is represnting the South Wairarapa Poultry Association at the annual meeting of the North Island Association, which takes place there to-morrow. The Borough Council, at its last meeting struck a general rate of 11 in the £, and a water rate of 5 per cent, on the rateable value. HOCKEY. The ladies' match at Carterton yesterday afternoon, between the Dalefield Kiwis and Carterton Hinemoas, was won by t e former by 5 goals tofnll.