MASTERTON NOTES.
(From Our Hseelal Correspondent.! Mastcrlon, December 1. Jour deaths occurred in tlio Mastcrton district nn Saturday and Sunday. Mr. J oiln Cotter, of Greytown, was killed in a motor accident. .Mrs. Fisher, wife of Air. W. Fislicr, of Carterton, died after a protracted illness. Rupert, the fifteen-year-old son of .Mr. and Mrs. John Maxwell, of Whareama, passed away oil Saturday. The. three-year-old son oi' Air. and ■Mrs. I'. JJovle, of Mastcrton, died on Sunday. An old-bird race was down from Tiniaru oil Sunday in connection with the Alasterton Homing Pigeon Club. The winning bird (Mr. W. Drake's "Skysail") did the airline distance of 328 miles in 9 hours -0 minute^ Hy a coincidence, a sccond Mr. John Cotter, of this district, mot; with a motor accident on Sunday. Mr. Cotter, a board-inghouse-kceper of this town, iu company with his wife and two other ladies, was motoring from Carterton, when ho collided with a lady cyclist, 'l'ho motor-car was overturned, and tlio occupants wore pinned beneath it. Mrs. Cotter sustained a fracture of tlio arm, but tlio other occupants escaped with a scvero shaking. At a meeting of stewards of the Mastcrton Pacing Club on Saturday, a proposal of the New Zealand Pacing Conference. that racing clubs should contributo towards the stakes of hunt clubs was favourably discussed. It was decided to defer delinito action, however, until after tho conference, which is to bo held at Auckland.
A. No-License meeting was held in tho Town Hall on Sunday night, when a spirited reply was given by tho Rev. A. 'I'. Thompson to tho pamphlet issued by Professor Salmond. Licensing matters are the sole topic of discussion hero just now. Although a big vote will bo east for restoration of licenses, tho No-License party express themselves as being sanguine that the decision of three years ago will not lie reversed. Tho business premises in Mastcrton are to bo closed at noon on December 21, for the races. Annie E. Rins, bookseller and stationer, of Maslerton, was adjudicated' bankrupt on Saturday. ■
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Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1303, 5 December 1911, Page 4
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