CARTERTON

Wairarapa Times-Age, 9 January 1941, Page 7

CARTERTON

GRASS FIRE OUTBREAK NEAR RAILWAY LINE. ("Times-A'"i” Special.j After the 2.30 p.rn. mail train left die Carterton station yesterday an alarm • was sounded on the fire siren and the brigade turned out to a grass fire which originated near the railway line in the vicinity of the Pembroke Street crcssirig. The firemen were quickly on the scene and subdued the outbreak which had got into dry grass in a paddock behind the property of the Misses Watterson. Had there been any wind the fire may have proved more serious. It is thought that a cigarette butt thrown from the window of a carriage may have been the cause of the fire. BOWLING CARTERTON CLUB GAMES. ’ Further games in the Carterton ] Bowling Club’s championships have been played as under: — Handicap pairs: E. Clark and New- ■ bould (si beat Hawker and Riggs is).; 23/16: E. Clark and Kilmister (s) beat! Daysh and Harrington (s), 22 19: Haw- i ke and Kilmister (s) beat E. Clark and I Whyte (s». 19/15. In a match for the colts singles. Col-] son beat A. R. Clark. 26 13. — Beautiful Gladioli. | Some beautiful gladioli have been • grown by the Rev. W. F. Stent, at St. | Mark’s Vicarage. There are some mag-1 nificent blooms among the collection. I and the plants arc well grown and exceedingly healthy. Many more bulbs) have still to flower. The excessively • hot weather is against the best de- ■ velopment of the flowers. Personal. Mr Steele, the new proprietor of the i .Royal Oak Hotel, has taken possession ■ of the premises. Constable Williams, of Upper Hutt, i took over his duties as senior officer at: Carterton yesterday.