DISTRICT NEWS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10079, 29 August 1910, Page 5

DISTRICT NEWS.

(From Our Own Correspondents.)

PAHIATUA.

Mr David Crawe, Secretary of the

j Raiiwav Leagu?, is wkh I Mr R. B. Kojs. V.P., to irtrodace a deputation u> Sir Joseph Ward concerning the prop ißed railway to Pongaroa. The member*.of the County Council, tog ither with the Engineer, inspected the County toads on Friday, ar.d also the she of tha propossd Te

Aupnpa bridge. Cold southerly weather ia now being experienced in 1b.3 Forty-Mile Buah. Most of the dairy factories and cieameri. s ia the district are now iu full swifij^.

CARTERTOW. The monthly meeting of the Wairar'apa South Cour.fcy Council was held on Saturday, Councillor W. Perry presiding. The treasurer reported a crecit baiance of £829 14b. 3d. Accounts amounting to£sis Os 7d were passed for payment, it was rt- '. ported by the Ranger that 37 head ct cattle had been impounded <!urirg the month. The action of Cr. Mas* n in authorising Mr R. W.Nunn to'ga ,, |on with th?. work tif laying pipes I acrosa the road to connect the tkctory with the Waupo'pn cr*?ek was endorsed. The Engineer was authorised to grant permission to the Carrington Dairy Company to Utilise the Council's dr*in across the roaJ. In reference to drainage into the river.it waa considered that the Council had no jurisdiction. An application from Mrs E N. Dixon for a few loads of metal ti be placed on "the road in front of her property was received ard it was ointed 'out that the tries on Mrs Dixon'* property were causing th» road to be. always in a bad aae iVr R, Cooper wrota urging the Council to at onca fence the new Admiral deviation. Abjut,9o chaiha was required,- aad he" was willing to provide the timber ..The matter was l«ft to Cra. Mason Strang? to get a price for the work; The Treasury notified ; tl}al this ye,*r*a subsidy was £lo7B''tfii laV A culvert is to bs pit in near M»' Playle's prop rty in Swamp Road. Leave of absence for one week in September was granted to the Engineer. Nuißsroua•'■'w.irks s -iggested by the Engine.i wera authorised.

The annual meeting of the Carterton United Friendly Societies' Council w a held on Friday, evening, B*o. J. M. Nicholls in the chair. The report ard bslar.cp sheet was peopled, and offl iselecied as under:—President, Bro. G. Bowles; vice-presi-dent, Bro. H. H. Armstrong; treasurer, Bro. ..-C/J- Da Lacey; secretary, Bro. W. Tucker. Bro. C. D. Robertson wrote accept in-; the position of d(?l-gate on she Wellington Council. A fete of thanks was passed to the retiring officers. Mrs Mabson and family, who havs been residents of the town for a numbsr of years, leave this week for Invercargill. r .