MASTERTON NOTES.

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2691, 10 February 1916, Page 9

MASTERTON NOTES.

— frAt a special mooting of tlie AVairarapa War Fund Exeeutivo oil AVednesday, it was decided to appoint, four delegates tii the conference convened by the Minister of Internal Affairs for February 17 at Wellington.' Draft rules prepared by the solicitor of the executive wore dealt with seriatim, and adopted with slight amendment. The AVairarapa AVar Fund Executive has filled the whole of its obligations in regard to the Allies' Relief Fund. There is still a sum of £5542 to the credit of the fund, and the oxccutivo decided on AVednesday that the trustees be empowered to invest this sura at call. A number of returned troopers \yera entertained by Sirs. Myer Caselberg at her home in Worksop Road on AVednesday afternoon. The soldiers spent a most enjoyable time in the garden and orchard. A sum of about £150 was raised at a stock sale at Te AVharau on Tuesday in aid of one of the candidates in the Queen of the Carnival competition. A monument constructed of fragments of torpedoed ships, washed ashore, lias been erected at Hornum, on the Isle of Sylt, in tho North Sea,. says a .Danish paper. The monument, which takes the shape roughly of a submarine, rests above ail English unexnloded mine, also washed ashore nearby. " "Thou mayest as well take away my brother as liiy rifle," is the proverb of the Montenegrins.. I