WAIRARAPA NEWS

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 147, 11 March 1918, Page 8

WAIRARAPA NEWS

. A deputation from the Wairarapa Hydro-Eleotrio Investigation Committee waited upon Mr. Parry, Government electrician, in Wellington, and placed before him the reports of engineers on the Wairarapa electrical power project. Mr. Parry promised to go carefully through the reports and communicate again with the deputation. Notwithstanding the high prices ruling for materials, building operations are fairly animated in Masterton just now. The roll number of the Masterton District High School, including secondary classes and side school, is now 911. Thirteen diphtheria cases arc at present under treatment in the, Masterton Hospital. ' A special class formed at the Masterton Technical School to prepare pupils for the Standard VI proficiency certificate is very much appreciated. For selling cigarettes after hours, a Masterton Chinaman was fined £5 and costs by Mr. W. Kerr, S.M. Addresses on missionary work are I being given in Masterton by the .Rev. W. V. Milne, a missionary from the New Hebrides group. Anniversary services in connection with the Xuripuni Methodist Sunday School were held on Sunday. In the Magistrate's Court at Masterton on Friday, Harold Brown, merchant, of Wellington, was charged with a breach of the Licensing Act in delivering liquor intended for sale in the Masterton No-License district. The liquor was seized on the Masterton show grounds. As Mr. J. J. M'Grath, counsel for defendant, could not be present, the case was adjourned until April o. The total contributions to the Wairarapa patriotic funds have now reached £154,525. This represents over £7 per head of the entire population of the district. The Solway School Committee has asked for a grant from the Masterton Trust Lands Trust. The application has been deferred to enable inquiries to be made as to the number of children from the Trust district attending the school. At the monthly meeting of theFeatherstou County Council held on _ Friday it was decided that the engineer (Mr. H. F. Toogood, •C.E.) prepare plans of a new bridge over the Upper Tauherenikau River, on the Feathers-ton-Greytown road. The engineer reported that necessary road and bridge improvements on the Itimwtaka Hill would cost £7000, with an allowance of 10 per cent, extra for contingencies. Mr. H. S. M'Laren, who was recently elected to'represent the ratepayers of the Pahaoa Hiding, was welcomed to the council table. Following upon an interview with Colonel Adams, Camp Commandant, the Feathorston County Council has decided to reduce the taxi-car fees by 25 per cent., a saving to the body of motorists concerned of £2 per annum. A young man named John O'Dowd was charged on Saturday with being found unlawfully on the premises of a. certain boar,dinghouse. "The defence was that accused was invited to the bouse by one of the servants. The Magistrate remanded accused to enable him to look up the law on the' subject. The new arrangement in regard to hides has caused a fall of about £1 per liead in tho price of fat beef in the Wairarapa-. ■ A Clarcville settler named, Adam Grant suffered ptomaine poisoning after partaking of tinned fish. Medical assistance was summoned, and he /,is now recovering. A Wairarapa settlor was last week imposed upon by a man in Wellington wearing a non-commissioned officer's uniform, who posed lis a returned soldier, but wliose name does not appear on the books of the Defence Department.