FEATHERSTON

Wairarapa Times-Age, 25 June 1938, Page 9

FEATHERSTON

LAND VALUATION. (“Times-Age” Special.) On Wednesday in Featherston Messrs Spellman (Crown Lands Department) Jamieson (State Advances Corporation), and Scott (Government Valuer, Masterton) met a number of settlers from the Bidwill Settlement and their solicitors (Messrs J. W. Card and H. M. Ward, Featherston, and G. D. Wilson, Masterton) when a conference was held in connection with the settlers’ contention that the valuation of their properties was above the productive value. The holdings are those which were acquired from the late W .E. Bidwill just after the termination of the Great War, when land values were high. It is understood that a mutual agreement was arrived at which is subject to confirmation by the Government. PERSONAL. ' R. D. (Dick) Burt, who fell from his bicycle last Sunday and suffered a fractured collar bone, has recovered sufficiently to be able to leave the hospital yesterday. Mr J. Udy, Greytown, who is at present in Kelvin Hospital, is reported to be making satisfactory progress, and will able to leave the hospital shortly. Sister Reid, who gained the highest marks in a recent State examination, has been the guest of Dr. and Mrs. Sharp. Mrs Eliot King, New. Plymouth, is guest of her sister, Mrs H. R. Bloxam. The Rev J. C. W. Mutter has. been appointed to Chaplaincy work in the Terrace End district, Palmerston North.