MASTERTON NOTES.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1029, 19 January 1911, Page 9

MASTERTON NOTES.

(From Our Special Correspondent.) Masterton, January 18. A Masterton fruit-grower has made all interesting experiment for treating fruit trees affected with blight, etc. He has bored a small hole in the outer portion, of tho trunk, and inserted sheep dip in this. The rising sap has conveyed the ingredients of the dip to tho limbs of tho tree, with the result that aphis and other forms of blight'have been destroyed. A number of settlers in the Masterton district have this season tried (he effects of nitro-bacterino for tho fertilising of their root and ccrcol crops.. The result has been eminently satisfactory. Tho bacteria is said to increase at the rato of 600,000 in ■ twenty-four hours. It can readily bo understood, therefore, that tho imparting of the life-giving elements lo tho soil has a marked effect upon tho propagation of grain species. Tho fund organised for tho building of a new church for St. Matthew's parish has now reached .£3150. It'is hoped that a. sufficient sum will shortly bo in hand to warrant tho laying of tho foundation stone of the'new building. • The accommodation in the town is likely to bo severely taxed next week, owing to.'-the .largo inilux of people expected for ■the lawn'tennis tournamnt and'swimming sports. -' v . At 1 the half-yearly- meeting last' night of the Hibernian Society. Bro. " Waters was installed president for tho . ensuing terra. Bro. Richards,' past president, was presented by tho society with a framed emblem. Tho Work.s Comrnitt.ee of the Masterton Borough 'Cfiimcil "met last evening. An application by.jtho. manager of the abattoirs fdi- atf''mc'feas'o" in salary was'ilf-' ferred until the estimates are under review. The net overdraft of the borough was reported to bo .£0957 15s. ,7d.. , The total rate exemption in Masterton, including municipal, Government, and religious bodies' prouertv, amounts to ,£592 10s. Id. 'Another spell of hot weather ; s being experienced in the Wairar'apa.' The-ther-mometer at 1 o'clock this' afternoon registered 79 Fa 11.,: in the shade. Two further bankruptcies havo ' been recorded in ..Masterton this week—both' of labouring men. In tho case of Edward Bath, benchman, the liabilities are set' down at JC9I, and tho assets at 10s. ! A meeting of the. Programme Committee of tho Masterton Competitions Society was 'held this week, when a "programme, was drafted for submission to the General Committee. Tho initial competitions in connection with tho society are to be held in July. . The statement filed in tho estate' of T. AV. Miller, labourer, who was this week adjudicated bankrupt, shows assets amounting to .£55, and liabilities ,£2ll Is. It is probable that tho annual reunion in connection with tho Wairarana African Campaigners' Association, which is to tako tho form of n dinner, will' bo held on tho second day of tho show.