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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 10716, 8 October 1912, Page 5

The Ekotahuna Foresters' Lodge, baa accumulated funds amounting U about £IOOO. ' An accident occurred to Mr F. Herman, one of the drilling experts for tho Mangaone Oi'r.ewis, Ltd. at Tune, on Friday. Mr Herman s foot slipped from a phuik into winch a dray had been backed, and ho sustained a fracture of tlio leg near tho nnklo. Tho injured man was taken to the Pahiatua Hospital. There is a on foot at "Wangnnui to form a s;' dicato with a capital of £IO,OOO fr the purpose of popularising Castieciilf. the termnius of the tramway s.». -em. It is intended to erect an up-to-date kiosk, •swimming baths and other attractions. Hemp graded for pk\».,<:'. (hiving the month of Sept-cm U- u tailed (iHfi-'l ■bales, or 353 bales :;.ore than the ■corresponding month last year. For the twelve month'-; (-lining September • 30th, however, 91.".!'.) bales, or a- decrease for-tho year ol ."".MIS bales, were graded. The.ro must be romo very absent minded persons in 'laranaki. At Kith am recently a !>;■••'-'' i,l;i " v '" m ' st ">~ ■od at an h-",t:d overnight went away noxt morning leaving behind him the sum of £fioo. The telegraph wires ■\ve-ro very busy in Eit-hnni that day, 'says an exchange. Tho Taranaki Egg Circle han for the month of • September disposed of 4000 dozen eggs. The membership has now increased to seventy, while only four weeks ago tho number was just over forty. The. committee n considering shipping a quantity of e-ggs to the London market, where it is expected gout prices will be realised. Tho portrait of Mr W. O. Buehan-, an, M.P. for Wuirarapa, presented to that gentleman at the opening of tho Buchanan Homo at Grey town, cost j £lO5, according to a statement of the I Buchanan Testimonial Fund laid before tho Pahiatua County Council on j Saturday. The illuminated address cost £ls, and the hire of motor cars £lO 10s. Tho total receipts wore. £147. "Why should not i.iie schools in tho ' ■country have me,-able walls'r 1 " asked ' a speaker during tho course! of a( lecture to tho Country Teachers Association in Auckland. Fresh aid was absolutely essential to the health of •chiali'en, he held, and, therefore, lie ■ believed that the walls of country schooli should bs made so that they -could bo thrown open in good weather. These walls, ho considered, wou!<| not bo any more expensive than tho orthodox ones—it was sunpiv a matter of getting the authorities out of the old grooves. An experienced driver is -anted for tho W.F.C.A. Ekotahuna branch. A meeting of tho Shearers' Union will take place in the Druids' Hall, Mast-erton, on Saturday night next. A reward is offered for the recovery of a gold wishbone brooch, lost in Queen Street on Saturday. Mr E. R. R. Daniel, land agent, Hastings, advertises for sale on the front page of this issue 242 acres, freehold, near Dannevirke. A mating or members /.}' the Ladies'" Swimming''Cluh, and other ladies interested in swimming, will ho held in the Dominion Hall this evening. A reward of 10s v> offerer! for the ' recovery of a double barrel breed] loading gun, lost between Villa and Hope Street corner on Saturday, It is worth the while of our +•" pp." o visit to "The Talkeri"s.' - Mason's Bui'd'ings. Mastorton, wh"-" they may hear seleot.Hru on the gramnphono from s-it«ip of the finest ' operas. An hour can hr> spent there with pleasure and profit. '' ' i Tlie Mavor of Maijtctoti invites users of the swimming hnth;j t"> be present -it the meeting to be held in the Council Chambers tonight to discuss hathing charges and regulations for the coming Reason. A mission sal-?, under the auspices ■of the P.W.M.U.. in aid of the Women's Missionary Training Institute, Dunedin. will bo h»!d in Knox Hall. ■on Thursdav next, from 2to 5 a nd 7 to 0 p.m.; admission free: afternoon tea will be procurable, and there will be competitions for exhibits* of sweets and lollies.