DISTRICT NEWS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10157, 31 December 1910, Page 6

DISTRICT NEWS.

Our Own Correspondents.) MAURICEVILLE WEST. Quito a large number of residents took advantage of one of the finest days of the. season to visit the sports held on the -horse-shoe paddock near the station. It is to lie hoped that the weather settles before the grain crops require harvesting, as the fanner lias had a trying time with his hay. Some fine crops of hay have been completely spoiled. Crops of every description have yielded very heavy here this season. The local Dairy Company's factory is turning out nearly 100 boxes of .butter per week, which is an improvement on last year's output. Potato blight has made its presence known by completely ruining several ■ fino patches of potatoes. It did not appear so early as it usually does, or a lot of the early crop;; would have been spoiled. CARTERTON A quiet wedding was solemnised at Carterton on Thursday, when Mr G. R. Stoodley was married to Miss M. M. Orr, youngest daughter of Mr ,T: Orr, of Hukanui. The Rev. C. H. Standage performed the ceremony. Mr and Mrs Stoodley will reside at Hukanui. Mr E. Jones has been appointed caretaker of the Carterton public swimming baths. A six-foot fence is to be erected along the road side of the .bath, and when this is completed the baths will be officially opened. The costume to be adopted is neck to knee with trunk. Mr J. Lewis has presented an iron pipe ladder to the Carterton public swimming baths. j A canvass is to be made in Carterton this afternoon and evening for funds towards the improvement of the public swimming baths. ■' . There was a little excitement in High Street yesterday afternoon, but fortunately no serious consequences resulted. It appears that an approaching motor car startled a pair of horses harnessed to a waggonette, and as they moved off, came in contact with another vehicle, with the result that the latter was capsized. Willing hands were soon available, and the fallen horse released from its unpleasant position. The trap sustained a broken spring, while the strain told upon several straps of the harness. Fortunately beyond this nothing serious occurred.