MASTERTON NOTES

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 58, 1 December 1917, Page 7

MASTERTON NOTES

The Masterton "A" and' Park Bowling Clubs met on Thursday in n Booth Cup match, the former winning' by the narrow margin of one point, The thermometer registered S3 degrees in the shade in Masterton on Thursday. The vital statistics for Masterton for the month of November were twenty-nine births, sis marriages, and sii deaths. The Wairarapa. Contral Branch of the Farmers' Union has now a membership of about 050. Tho organising secretary has secured over one hundred new members during,the present year. Tho Secretary of Agriculture hns in* formed the secretary of the Special Wheat Committee set up in tho Wairarapa. that tho Department will take over the responsibility of collecting tho money for seed wheat supplied to growers through the committee. Although the price has not yet been fixed, an assurance has been given that it will not be such as will create dissatisfaction among purchasers. The quantity of seed wheat supplied through the committeo was 3000 bushels. At an evening run on Thursday .'in connection with the Wairarapa Amateur Athletic Club, the 100 yards handicap and long jump were won by W. Grantham, 880 yards handicap by K. M'Ewen, nnd two mile evele bandicap by It. Oakley. N/> bankruptcies were recorded in the Wairarapa during tho month of November, As a result of tho effort? of the Wheat Committee,, the -icre.igo under wheat in the Wairarapa this wason exceeds that of last' season by RSO acres. The Tfev. ,T, A. Ward, of Tnnmnrunu), is to visit the Wairarana eariv in December in tho interests of the Presbyterian Mnori Mission.

Two luiwl'Til policif lijivi> lippn.t(iV«n out in (It Wniravapn- by momljer.H of th« Farmers' Union in the Mutiml Insurance Company. The Dolicies represent an aggregate of ,G90,00A. '