CARTERTON NOTES.
(From Our Own Correspondent.) Tuesday. Mr W. li. Allen's tender" for fencing Clarevillc racecourse at £6-1 10s, and Mr C. Oliver's at £2O for stone-picking on the course, have been accepted. Nineteen new members have been elected to the Club, bringing (he roll of membership up to 70. Tenders arc to be invited forthwith for the erection of a grandstand, to be completed by Ist September, Plans have been submitted and accepted. A return was read at the Cartertoil Borough Council meeting yesterday, showing that the Council had contributed to the United District Aid Board during the past live years the sum oi £lßol9s 2d, and received for distribution from that body £233 12s 4d for the same period.
The Wairarapa South Couuty has contributed to the United District Aid Board in the period of seven years, from 1887-8 to 1893-4, no less a sum than £3,92219s 4d, and have received in return for the same period only £270 14s Id, leaving Wellington £3,652 to the good. The district supports its own poor outside of rating itself to support, the poor of Wellington. The Bank overdraft of the Carterton Borough Council is £ll7,
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4732, 29 May 1894, Page 3
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195CARTERTON NOTES. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4732, 29 May 1894, Page 3
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