WAIRARAPA NEWS.

Evening Post, Volume LXXVII, Issue 102, 1 May 1909, Page 6

WAIRARAPA NEWS.

FEATHERSTON, This Day. Mr. H. Wilkinson, of Western Lake, is the latest to acquire a motor car in this district. It is a 14-16 h.p. Argyle. Featherston is well represented at the Wairarapa Lake to-day, the occasion being the opening of the shooting season. The local bowling green has now been closed for the season. Mr. T. &Vclair has won the championship o£ tne local rine club, his score being 168. 11. Williams (167) was next, W._ Wakely (165) third. ' Mr. John Cunj dy's trophy for the most bulls-eyes during the season was won by Mr. H. Williams, Mr. T. Benton second, and Mr. W. Wakely third. The Crawford-Har-die trophies were won by Messrs. W. W. Wakely and H. Williams, the latter securing tne first trophy. In the cup competition Messrs. T. Benton and C. Nix tied, the former winning the shootoff. The local tennis club has decided to wind up the season with a dance, to be held at the end of the month. Messrs. F. C. Everton, C. Burt, C. Aitcheson, H. Stewart were appointed a decorating committee, and Mr. A. P. Roydhouse secretary. The Martinborough Town Board on Thursday night confirmed the resolution to strike a general rate of ljd in the pound, and a water rate of £d in the pound, was also confirmed. MASTERTON, This Day. In the S.M. Court yesterday afternoon, the Truant Inspector, Mr. Dineen, proceeded against a number of parents on charges of having failed to send their children to school the required number of times. The Inspector stated that two of the children concerned, aged thirteen and eleven respectively, were now only in the first and second standards. Fines of 10s and 7s costs were inflicted in each case. ' In a case in which an elderly woman was charged with being found on licensed premises during the currency of a prohibition order, a peculiar point was raised. The evidence showed that the woman had her arm through the bar window whilst standing on the road, endeavouring to hand a coin to the barmaid. The question was raised as to whether the defendant was actually " on the premises " ; and as the magistrate considered there was some doubt on the subject, he gave the accused the benefit. Another case has been set down for hearing at the next sitting of the District Court to be held here on 28th May. Hugh Long, butcher, is claiming from Max Oscar Aronsten the sum of £499 on a statement of accounts between the parties in connection with a butchering business carried on in Masterton for some time past.