MASTERTON NOTES.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1535, 3 September 1912, Page 6

MASTERTON NOTES.

(From Our Special Correspondent.) Masterton, September 2. The annual District-Convention-in connection with" the .Women's Christian Temperance Union opens here to-morrow. About twenty delegates will be present. A heavy downpour of rain occurred on Saturday'last. This will have a benebcial effect-upon'pastures, «»d will assist the lambing. . Ploughing operations are still in progress, and a considerable area ot land: is.. to, be put down in cereals this season." "* ';',. : " , Sir. Coleman Phillips, of Cartert»n, is asking the Masterton Chamber of-Com-merce and other bodies to appoint delegates to a deputation which is to wait upon the Prime' Minister, asking that the Feat, of C4overnment bo removed to the Wairarapa. A . '. l# .. ■ Anniversary services in connection with the Masterton Baptist Church mid Sunday School were held yesterday, the Eev. A. North occupying the pulpit. ■. _ The-Masterton Cement Pipe Company 13 Etartinga branch of its business at vvaitara,"Taranaki. , There are at present twenty-lour patients in the Masterton Hospital, including two fever cases. Mr S. 11. Conder, of Westport, has been appointed manager of the Masterton branch of the New Zealand Clothing The directors of the Masterton Cooperative Dairy Company have decided to sell this year's output, on consignment. A. house on the Upper Plain Eoad, necupiedbv Mr. Harold Dixon, has been entered, and a cash box and jewellery rem°Uh reported that. Mr. A. .T. StoneWigg ha 3 offered his Poto, Poto Ertale, containing 3768 acres, to the Government (or purposes of closer settlement.