MASTERTON NOTES.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 939, 5 October 1910, Page 4

MASTERTON NOTES.

./-'•,///-"'• -".!,. \.l:%■■.:. .'.'.!;!:!'';r:':.^rSfe'</!;; ';..;';: (Prom Our .Own y: The':thirty-f ouTth-annual ; -meeting";'. '• J the Waifarapa.Caledonian:Society/;wa'<;'/.' held, on' Saturday 'last;; - when- Mr.'.' E;C Ej r ; J Chamberlain presided. .■'•',jThe..a'nnoal3r«*SJ port,v,which- was adopted, showed;'a;,defi< '-; ciency; in the .principal/sources-i'of;, iew' : c|. enue.;/ The: receipts from ..the,-, gates sand); ■', "grandstands/alone, showed:,a-.,.decrease/:of?;■;'!• .£'4s; '17s. on' last ih;!' : - : 'tnrn were ,£3B 15s. 6d;-less'than those! of v ; ' :1908.:" The /president %■. .was ; something/; radically'./wrong.''/ /It ■/ seemed/to him incredible/that ;a.splendid:'; programme of forty-five' cvents^-for.'.which,//;, over ,£2OO was ;actuallyi.,paid/.in;-prizes,S V should fail to draw the;public in;sufficient-/■ numbers ■■ to ;-.make : the;gathering ■ pay/.for!' \' itself..; As a'/mat ter/. of •'-; fact;'/the, gatet '•■:';'.•■ receipts had been.gradually;declining:fbi;/.:.; a. 'number/, of-.'.years.' /Ylh adequate/train!//■ arrangements';and; >a- lack/of /'innovation"*//" in; the .prpgramme were; said; to;' ; be '■' par*!''/' tially; responsible /for!; the" : diminishedJ/at-;/// tendance. The'election'of 'officers.result- /'; ed/ih/Mf/I-Alexj;M'Ledd! •'' president, and Messrs;/J;'B.'M'Kenzie.and; /! •J. ' H.; •:Pauling;; vice-presidents. 7.'//It~ waa i;! ;decided/to reduce the number, of;directors!!//; ~to/fifteen,'; five /to -form ;a/quorum;-*/A/// strbng'directorate/was electcd.jand'Messrsw:'' M'Leod,/Pauling, .'M'Kenziej v Sykesy-Sellar;-. ; - i.Waddington; .;and;,T;:/Wyrth '■veie /appoint-"-. /,: ed;;a:;-programme committee,.;,A.;;commit-;/; tee /was/ap'poiiited/to /wait/u'poii ■.the.;Bor- ; ough; Council,; ahd~arrahge : '/terms.;for/:th9;,;i; ;use;.of;;the/Park;Ovai;on;;January'2;;,!fotSj; ; the. annual sports/ gathering; / 'V./.■•: ;''-? 'i*?:;.

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;periments ;'6f; :ttie; /Agricultural /Depart-;:/ ;ment, met .the;exp'efimehtal,.(Mmmittee/pf; : ; the/^lfstertiJhv^v'a'nd/P:^'Ms& Saturday, ■ and /discussed; the' , qnestion l''of'.v■agricultural .experiments in'; genera); -anfll;;' ! the/'i)ffer of-ten-acres,/made. ;by. : Miv/W* ■:' ft'l; >,i; -%>.?-. j:fc'/'*;4.»i