MASTERTON NOTES

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3065, 28 April 1917, Page 5

MASTERTON NOTES

Tho poll on the proposal to raise a loan of £1100 for constructing an additional reservoir and filter-bed at Lansdowne was carried by 68 votes to 8. At the annual meeting of tho Bed Star Football Club, it -was decided to open the season with a practice match to-day. It was announced that an honours board, which would contain tho names of 134 members and exmembers of the club who had been on active service, was in" the course of preparation. At the annual meeting of parishioners of St. Matthew's Church,'a resolution was carried Recommending the extension of tho church franchise to women. A case was commenced in the Magistrate's Court at Mastorton on Thursday in which T. M. O'Connor, farmer, of Clareville, claimed £23 2s. as damages from the Master ton Co-opera-tive Dairy Company, for sheep injured owing to the alleged negligence of defendants' servant while driving a motor van. After/hearing lengthy evidence, His "Worship adjourned the case'until May 3. At the annual meeting of parishioners of St. Matthew's Church, Mr. K. Hale was elected vicar's warden and Mr. T. Evans parishioners' warden. The following vestry was elected:— Messrs. J. B. Henry, G. L. Thomas, A. Welch, G. Hyde, J. \V. de Castro, T. T. Denbee, R. V. Jones, J. W. Blackman, E. H. Waddington, and H. F. Green. In the Magistrate's Court at Masterton on Friday a man named Dawson was fined £2 for permitting himself to he "shouted for" in a hotel.