MASTERTON NOTES.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1178, 13 July 1911, Page 2

MASTERTON NOTES.

(From Our Spccial Correspondent.) MSistcrtcn, July 12. The monthly meeting of tho Masterton County Council was held yesterday. Councillor "\Y. J. Welsh presiding. Tho business transacted was chiclly of a routine charade!-. ■ Tltt tliairnmn was appointed delegate to the Counties' Conference, which is about to be held in Wellington, and it was dccided that individual councillors bo permitted to send in remits the clerk within seven days. It was decided that certain roadmen !>o appointed inspectors under tlio wheel-tyro bv-hiusof the county. ~ , , _ On Mondav last the residents of Longbush, Gladstone, and surrounding districts waited ii(Kin Mr. John Strang, at his homestead at Glenside, and presented him with a purse of sovereigns on the eve of his departure for the Old Country, as au indication of appreciation his qualities as a settler and neighbour. Mr. Strang, who was taken by surprise, suitably acknowledged the gift. 110 was also , tho recipient of a handsome gold watch, presented by a number of personal admirers. The interment of the late Mr. James Hanley took place at the Masterton cemetery yesterday afternoon. The cortege included a large, number of lorostors and members of the Fire Brigade. The service at the graveside was conducted by the Rev. Father Harnett, the Foresters seivice being wad by Bro. Candy. It has beeu remarked that the only resident of the Ekotahuna district to contribute to the ''George" fund was a Gorman bv nationality. Mr. ihinc.in M'Lachlan, engineer to tlio Masterton County Council, has been confined to liis home for some weeks past as the result of a chill.' At. a meeting yesterday of the uairarapa Employers' Association, it was decided to contribute towards an increase in tho salary of Mr. W. Pryor, secretary of the Employers' Federation, so "ij' " ls services might be retained to the federation. The matter of the Bakers Union demand for a new award was left in tho hands of Mr. J. I. J- Alpass and tho sec"rhe'Maslorton Chess Club has received a challenge to a match from the Hamilton Chess Club. _ . A sparrow and clay-pigetTn match is to Uako place hero to-morrow. In the evening a meeting of gun club men will bo held, when it is hoped to re-form the Mas. terton club. The Masterton County Council day Approved plans for the sub-division of the Matahiwi Estate, near Masterton. At its meeting on Tuesday* the Masterton County Council decided to apply to the- Government for road and bndge grants approximating to about ,€4OOO.