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Wairarapa Times-Age, 28 April 1939, Page 3

The golfer stepped up to the tee and drove off. The ball sailed straight down the fairway, leaped on to the green, and rolled into the hole. The golfer threw his club in the air with excitement. "What have you suddenly gone crazy about?” asked his wife, who was trying to learn something about the game. "Why, I just did a hole in one!” yelled the golfer, a wild gleam of delight in his eyes. “Did you?” asked his wife placidly. “Do it again, dear, I didn’t see you.” “We are certainly wizards of finance, io have such a fine domain for so little expense,” said Mr F. W. Freeman, when the balance sheet and report of the Cashmere Domains Board came up for approval at the last meeting of the. Heathcote County Council. The bal-ance-sheet showed receipts of Ils 9d and payments for the same amount for the year ended March 31. 1939. Receipts consisted of the balance in hand, at the beginning of the year, and payments the amount loft in hand after a years) operations. The balance-sheet was required by the Lands and Survey Department. and in the column headed • works undertaken" in the department's questionnaire, the board reported. "Planting bulbs, flowers, and shrubs given by the residents of Cashmere, and general care and maintenance." Councillors spoke in praise of the re-1 sidents who had given plants for the reserve.