MASTERTON MATTERS

Evening Post, Volume LXXXV, Issue 110, 10 May 1913, Page 6

MASTERTON MATTERS

[BX TELEGRAPH — SPECIAL TO THE POST.]} MASTERTON, This Day. Cold and wintry r weather, with intermittent showers of rain, has prevailed during the past day or two. Snow has fallen heavily on the ranges. Stock generally have had a set back, the supply of milk to the dairy factories being considerably affected. It is expected that the majority of the factories will close down at the end of the month. The wintry weather has also had the effect of reducing the number of ' fat stock being sent to the Waingawa Freezing Works. The Magistrate, Mr. L. G. Reid, was engaged for the greater part of yesterday in hearing cases dealing with breaches of the Licensing Act, in one form or another. S. Allan, charged with having kept liquor for sale, was fined £10 and costs (7s) ; William Gibbons, for failing to comply with the Act, in bringing liquor into an unlicensed area, was fined 40s and costs (17s), and for failing to give his name and address to the person to whom the order was given was fined 20s- and costs. A case against Jack M'Rae for haying kept liquor for sale occupied some time, and was finally dismissed, the Magistrate stating that the case being a second offence was a serious one, as it involved imprisonment. He would not make a conviction as the charge was not proved to his satisfaction. James Holland wa,s charged in two casese of having delivered liquor in A/ no-license area, and which he had reason to believe was being kept for sale. A fine of 40s and 9s costs was imposed in one case, and 40s and costs (455) in the second. Bernard Douglas, -licensea of the Taratahi Hotel, was charged with' having supplied liquor to_ be delivered in a nolicense area, without properly notifying the Court. The charge was dismissed. At the monthly meeting of the Masfcerton Trust Lands Trust last night, Mr. W. H. Jackson brought forward the following proposal : "That the sum of £100 be placed on the estimate this year, and every subsequent year until the overdraft is paid off, and yearly afterwards such larger sum as the trustees may see fit to vote, and that this fund be made available for the general equipment of such institution as may be established in tho Masterton small farm area, or the borough of Masterton, for higher education." After some discussion it was deemed advisable that the matter, being one of, considerable importance, be left over until after the election this month.