MASTERTON NOTES

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2878, 16 September 1916, Page 15

MASTERTON NOTES

i . : The Land Board'intends disposing of tlie lease of an education reserve of ISO acres, within a. mile of Masterton, on perpetual lease. Ifc bad been hoped that this reserve would have been sot aside for tho purposes of an agricultural liigh school. Strong representations have been made to the Govornnieut in the matter, and a deputation will probably visit Wellington 011 Monday to interview Ministers. A football match between teams representing the AVairarapa Amateur Athletic Club and tho Feathcrston Ambulance Corps was played in Mas-' icrton on Thursday, and resulted in a win for the latter by 15 points fo STwo Territorials were fined £0 in tho Magistrate's Court at Masterton on Friday for failing to attend the Territorial camp. An interesting case under the Licens-ing-Act was beard in tho Court at Mastertoii on Friday.A-.-taxi-driver namcdh&eprge AVats'on tva's. charged with bringing a parcel 'of liquor into a No-License district without such parcel being labelled that it contained liquor. Tho defence was .that under the principal Act it was permissible'to. bring fivo bottles of beer into : a No-License "district without the neces-. sityifor labelling. As the defendant in the present case had only five bottles, it was contended that 110 ofl'once had been committed. His AVorsliip reserved bis decision, so that he might look into the point.