MASTERTON NOTES
__There has been a keen demand for Wairarapa stud stock this season, and a considerable number of. Komney and Lincoln rains have been dispatched to various- parts of the Dominion. Several cases of scarlet fever have Been reported to the lMasterton health officials from tho Forty-Mile Bush. The Masterton Homing Pigeon Club flew an interval race from Taihapc on Thursday, i'lie' successful bird was iilessrs. Drako Bros.' Try Again. . /l'ho managers of the Mastorton Technical School have resolved to join with other educational bodies in extending an invitation to the Minister of Education to visit the district in reference to tho extension of secondary education. A witness who appeared in the Supreme Court at Masterton on Thursday stated that ho had been bullock-driv-ing in the Castlepoinfe district for twenty years, and had only: retired last year.
( A case was heard in the Supreme Court, before Mr. Justice Chapman and a jury, in whiih Messrs. Fly, ana Young claimed from Messrs. Percy Bros, a sum of £104 damages in connection with a coaching accident. 'Tho jury returned a verdict for the plaintiffs for the full amount claimed.
An interesting case was,heard in iho Court on Thursday, when the Castlepoint County Council claimed from Richard John Barton a sum of £20 damages for obstructing a road, and an order declaring that the road in question was a public one. Mr. C.'j\ Skerrett, K.C., appeared for the council, and Mr. M. Myers for the defendant. ; After hearing lengthy evidence, His Honour, decided to take legal argument in' Wellington. The director of the Masterton Technical' School has reported the roll numbers in the respective classes to be as follows Art, 25; mechanical drawling, 7; needlework, SO; woodwork, 'J : magnetism and electricity, 9; agricultural chemistry, 3; 'wool-classing 4; shorthand and typewriting, 135; bookkeeping, 52; Public Service classes, ifl and ,13; English and arithmetic, 49; elocution, 10; total on the roll, 412.
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Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2729, 25 March 1916, Page 15
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