LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 1035, 16 August 1911, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

There is a good deal of sickness in Masterton at the present time, many residents being laid aside.

So far this year, a sum of £145 12s 3d has been received by the Masterton Borough Council in licenses and fees. Subsidies amounting to £4OB 5s lOd have been received by the Masterton Borough Council since March 31st last.

The overdraft of the Masterton Borough Council on July 31st was £4528 0s 3d.

The Masterton Borough Council has granted an increase of 5s per week in the salary of Mr S. Temple, junior ledger-keeper in the gas office. A batch of seventy-eight, young men who have been registered under the Defence Act were medically examined at Carterton on Monday night.

Douglas Manttan, who was injured by a fall down the well of a lift at Auckland, died on Monday.

The quantity of gas manufactured in Masterton for the month of July was 2,855,100 cubic feet, an increase of 78,100 feet on tho quantity manufactured during the same month last year.

Sergeant-Major Millett, of the Defence Departmert, stationed at • the Hutt under the new defence scheme, was admitted to a private hospital in Wellington on Monday night. He states that on Sunday night week ho was way-laid at the Hutt by some young men, who bent him, one of the party also stabbing.him in the breast.

Of the sum of £6445 allocated on the estimates for expenditure in the Masterton borough for the current year, the sum of £2115 12s 2d had been expended to July 31st. Of this amount, £604 14s 2d has been spent in street maintenance.

It is 23 years since Levin was first settled, and though a great many of the original settlers have moved away a goodly number remain. It is proposed to have a social reunion of the old settlers at an early date, probably during the first week in September. i The members of the Masterton division of the St. John Ambulance, together with the Fire Brigade and Fire Police, held their fifth lecture last night,-some forty members being present. Dr. Cowie, the lecturer, put them through the various means of triangular bandage and stretcher drill, also the various means of removing patients. The final lecture will be given in the Fire Station on August 29th. Speaking at the annual meeting of the Wellington Meat Exnort Company yesterday, Mr W. G. Foster, managing director, referred to the

disastrous state of Labour in the Old Country. He did not think that that was a good time to deal with the subject ; but he assured shareholders that the company's interests were so covered that they had at present nothing to fear. If, however, the strikes were prolonged, then thero might be a danger of very bad markets.

In his monthly report, presented to the Masterton Borough Council last evening, the manager of the Masterton gasworks stated that the average rate of increase in the gas for the current year was 3.73 per cent, of gas manufactured, and 8.40 per cent, of • gas sold per meter. During the month I two new consumers were connected up, 1 and sales of cookers and gas fittings totalled £36 10s 3d. The demand for coke keeps up to the average, the sales for the month totalling 2473 bags. Tar is, however, very.slack, only some seventy gallons having been 1 disposed of. The manufacturing plant is in good order and condition. The reluctance of sonw medical men to attend unknown patients at night was discovered by an anxious father on Saturday at about 10.30 p.m. (says the Auckland Herald). An 18-months 'old child, whose parents reside in Newton, was seized with convulsions. Leaving it to the care of its mother and

hurriedly attiring himself, but not waiting to put on his boots, the father ran to the nearest boardinghouse where there was a telephone. He rang up no fewer than ten doctors before his appeal for assistance met with a favourable reply. One or two of the nine medicos first rung up were out, others said they could not come for various reasons. By the time the tenth doctor was persuaded to turn out the father of the suffering infant was well-nigh distracted, and a kindly person in the boardinghouse had to complete the list of calls for him.

The annual report of the Parkvale Dairy Company shows that the factory was opened on August 22, 1910, arid closed on May 31, 1911, during which time 5,461,4941bs of milk were received. Thei yield of butter-fat was 206',0431b5, from which 542,2251b5, or 242 tons of cheese were made. \ Each pound of butter fat yielded 2,631bs of' cheese, and each pound of, cheese required 10.071bs of ipilk, The -tests ranged from 2.9 to 6.2, the average being 3.77. After setting aside the sum of £66 10s as a dividend at 6 per cent, on the subscribed capital, and writing £llO 18s 5d off for the depreciation of plant and buildings, there remains a balance of .£2790 3s od due to suppliers, making the actual price paid per pound of butter-fat Is OJd, equal to 4.85 d per gallon of of milk.