DISTRICT NEWS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10521, 9 January 1912, Page 6

DISTRICT NEWS.

[From Our Own Correspondent.]

PAST WELL. The recent fine weather has been mu;>h onjeyed /by too fanners, who are busy uayaxuising and shearing. This set of labour is generality over be-ioro .GL.rist.mas', but this season ffcliings ar? very backward* 011 account' of .the recent iraugli weather. Rupo crops are very backward 011 •account of the recent rough weather 1 and heavy gales, which seem to have blown. the young shoots out of the 1 ground"'The local 'creamery output is very 1 much ■•)(&/.v the average. ; The jiastweil people oug'hit to be cu;,.u/at >,lated <;n the way they lin»*<? : (4ti.)i)£d •iogetiiej* io wipe off the hall iide-bi. They are now talking about 'lining the building insi.de. A meeting to be bekl to consider the prrno./d. to hold a local eporte; gatheriag at K'a&tcr. .Mil' (.). JsaiKTcn is about to have erected 0:1 hi:; farm a twelve-roomed irosidenc;', fitted mtih ibig'h prcfcouira smkl hot ivate.r .service, and when completed v. Ki be c:i.e of the finest residences' i:n the district. The builder is Air \Y. Peterseni, of Maurtct'i i-ie.

CARTERTON. Mr K. Feist, -Mayor of Carterton, loft yesterday c:n a fortnight's visit (to the &:>uth Iskvnd. . A.t the quarterly meeting of the-. ■South Wairarapa M©thodi<.t. Circuit ilie balance sheet flimved an. improvement iu i'iiiuiict', the income from all sources aiir.cst meeting the expenditure incurred during the quarter. Sunday school matters were discussed, and Mrs G. i±. Holdtoroft appointed. visitor to the schools. The Cfliurch membership' was> increased by one. Messrs Gmunead (Greytmvn). and Sadler (Fefitherston) were re-' elected circuit stewards for the incoming year, Mr Sadler aiico being deputed to act as lay representative tit the Auckland conference in March. Permission «as granted to hold anniversaries in connection 1 with the Sunday Schools at Greytcwn and 1 auhereniikau dannng the present quarter. Votes cf appreciation for rer>ices rendered v> ere passed to Sunday Sjliool office bearers, organists, local preachers, and the press. Till? next meeting was -fixed for GreytoAvn on Thursday, April ith.