MASTERTON NOTES

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3028, 15 March 1917, Page 3

MASTERTON NOTES

A commercial traveller was fined £1 and costs for taking an order for wine from a boardinghouse-keeper at Eketahuna, which is within the Masterton No-Licenso district- The owner of the vintage from which the wino came 4' a s convicted, and ordbred to pay costs for failing to 6end the order to the Clerk of the Court in the specified time. Between two and three tons of sausages are sent to the Feafcherston camp every week from the Waingawa freezing works. At tho annual meeting of the Girls' lied Cross Brigade, Miss Jameson was I elected president, Miss K. Morriso;i vios-preadent, and Miss V. Oasolbcrg secretary. Tho Minister of Public Works h'?.s written tho Masterton County Council, stating that he d'eclines to allow Government to be expended by local authorities at the high rate of wages now being paid in some instances. Tho Public Trust Offico has advised the Masterton County Council that a sum of £2000 is available for 'the construction of bridges in the Wainuioru Biding. • 1 • The Pctone Bowling Club is sending three or four rinks to Masterton at Easter. _ ■ ' , About sixty recruits left Masterton on Wednesday morning for Trentham. They were played to tho station by the Municipal- Silver Band. The Mastorton County Council has declined to endorse a resolution of the Mackenzie County Council, requesting tho Government to impose a duty of 10 per cent, on motor tires, the money bo raised to be expended by local bodies in the upkeep of roads. At an evening run of the Amateur Athletic Society on Tuesday, a 100 yards handicap was won by J. Bradbury, and a mile handicap by F. Kilminster. The points prize for the focondi half-year has been won hy JBradburv. The Claims Board of the Wairarawt Patriotic Association has voted £25 towards providing amusements on the troopship on which Chaplain-Captain Seamer will sail. Operations at the Waingawa freezing works are more backward this year than ill former years. This is duo to tho fact that a drought, occurred at the time that rape crops were-sown.