PROVINCIAL NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 128, 22 February 1908, Page 7

PROVINCIAL NEWS.

(FROM OUR SPECIAIi CORRESPONDENTS.) ; ; PALMEIISTON. The Oroua Bridge hnnual'school picnic held yestonlay was largely, attended ■by residents from all over, thp, district. Mr. \V. Pearco kindly placed his grounds at the disposal of | the picnickers. MASTEIITON. r ; i A somewhat; curious position lias arisen over the municipal' abattoirs, i The monthly, statement as ,to, the amount .each butcher paid for slaughtering was published in a : local paper, whereupon the butchers fbr- ; warded a .formal complaint to the, Borough Couacil. It 'appears that ■ their /argument rw»s7that.;publicatibn in this instance meant a' their private business. /There is !p»rtaia)ly'■ soriietliiug in - this contention, ind' the Borough .tyiuncil placed its veto on tho','official'publication of'the-undesirable in-:forniatio']i.-.i-.At ;th6'. back l 'ef-■ the trhole business, however,: isiho fact that the abattoirs belong ta the.municipality, and any burgess 1 may;; demands, full particulars regarding the I financiaK.position'-or.' the "abattoirs.■ _ '• '. - j > Seme .-ideahof^the''smart-'manner in which; '•werk.is dischargedat-'-tho >Masterton'- Rail,he gauged,the-fact that on- Monday r last'the authorities: entered' inwards 50 -:.-trucks;';bf stock', i and' -'- to 3Vellington,!lbO(trticks/,6^,sheep./ ' Th'c. -Hon; Mjlls' is 'at /present 'on a" yisit jto -MastertonH,' ,■ i .'/ ' : .':> ; -''V..* Mr. :Alesander : Wylh | jf;;pf; HpmebushjTdied yesterday ;at. /his": residpnc'<£. afecd.! SS/'years'.'Mr. Richard'-'Brown/ of /this' tow-iv,,: formerly . bii tho /work.' of Lands Trust, which : has.given tho plnce' such valUableiicndowmentV,. The; trust was the', outcome of tho'settlement of-'Masterten \by : the;. .Waicarapa. Small. Farms Association' in .1853.:, ..Greytown;-- was:; settled at the ssmo time.'nV Mr. -Br6wn purposes: going very ei-katistiTOly-iinty •••the . snhjcct, : and the book will be ■ increased. in value. as a 'record, by;- the: ■.reproduction of a number of photograph's'of: the-old: pioneers.. ''']'