MASTERTON MATTERS.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 24, 29 January 1912, Page 8

MASTERTON MATTERS.

[BX TELEGRAPH — SPECIAL TO THE POST.] MASTERTON, This Day. Six applications have been received by the local Registrar for widows' pensions, and will come before the court on Friday next. The managers of the Technical School will meet on 9th February, when arrangements will be made for the holding of the annual meeting on 6oma eubee- • quent date during the mouth. The oats and maize crops in this district are expected to be particularly heavy this 6eason. It is astimated that throe times the area of land has been put down in maize this season, compared with last. The latest returns from the Worksop dredge is 83oz 43d\vt for 130 hours' working. Thirty-five motor cars and fifty motor cycles were registered in Masterton during 1911. The A. anH F. Association is having the produce buildings in the "Sohvay Show Grounds shifted from their present position to a suitable site. The thermometer registered 81.4 degrees here yesterday. A spell of hot weather is being experienced at present. There is a big demand for houses in Masterton at present, and as a consequence rents are going up considerably. Tue demand is attributable to the fact that there have been very few houses built for leasing purposes during tho past year.