WAIRARAPA NOTES,

Dominion, Volume 19, Issue 218, 10 June 1926, Page 4

WAIRARAPA NOTES,

* —. Masterton June 9. At the annual meeting of the Masterton Picture and Entertainment Company, tho retiring director, Mr. W. R. Kemball, was re-elected. It was stated at the meeting that the company had experienced its most successful year since its flotation 13 years ago. It is understood that the Government is shortly to put in hand an important public undertaking in the northern end of the Wairarapa district which will absorb from 100 to 150 of the local unemployed. The Rev. P. F. Bothwell, who has had charge of the Kuripuni portion of the Masterton Methodist Circuit, has accepted the pastorate of the Newtown Congregational Church rendered vacant by tlie removal of tho Rev. F. De Lisle to Napier. At the annual meeting of the Masterton Fire Board Mr. W. Candy was reelected chairman. The estimates were approved for a nett expenditure to he contributed as follow:—Government £5O, Masterton Borough Council £B3B, insurance companies £B3B. The estimated loss on property not covered by insurance was- £BBl7-for the year, and on covered property £8720. The total fire loss; to insurance companies was £9720, compared with £4OB the previous year. Tho result of school committee elections at the adjourned householders’ meetings in this district was as follow : Whatman School: Adjutant Batchelor (chairman), J. B. Thomson S. Munn, C. C. McLachlan and L Robinson. Mauriceville: A. McKay .chairman), Mrs. F. Jcnningff (secretary). F. Jennings, M. P. Wilkin pnd F. C. Wilkin. Fernridge: T. Flannery. T. H. Horton, A. H Graham, T. R. Jones and T. R. Welch Miki Miki: L. Welch (chairman). A. E. Reader, N. R. Wyeth, H. H. Christiansen and H. West.