WAIRARAPA NEWS.

Evening Post, Volume LXXV, Issue 08, 10 January 1908, Page 8

WAIRARAPA NEWS.

fBr"'Tct«GBAPH.— Special to The Post.] At a meeting of the Featherston fire brigade last night, Lieut. S. Check. was appointed delegate to the United Fire Brigades Conference at Masterton in March nest. At this week's meeting of the South Wairarapn. Hospital Board a credit balance of £203 4s lid was reported, and accounts for £92 15s were passed for payment. ' Further shipments of Wairarapa cheese •in the Paparoa on Thursday next will include seven tons from the Otaraia. Dairy Factory, and 45 cases from I Tawalia. MASTERTON MATTERS. j < MASTERTON, This Diiy. The local consumption ol meat is still very much less than usual — probably due to high prices. The abattoir returns produce figures which cannot deceive and these show that in December, 1906, £148 15s 6d was paid in slaughtering fees, while last month only £93 9s od was I>aid, a reduction of over one third, or tie ,owest amount paid since the abattoirs opened. A well known and popular Masterton young lady, Miss Holloway, was entertained at a sccial gathering last evening, and prestTiUd h-- Mr. A. Vi . Hogg, M.P., on behalf of numerous friends with some Landsome articles of silver and glassware, on the eve of hei approaching marriage with Mr. J. Bradbury. The latter is the ■weH-kno-vm amateur long-distance runner, and is also very popular in the district.