WAIRARAPA NEWS

Evening Post, Volume xciv, Issue 73, 24 September 1917, Page 2

WAIRARAPA NEWS

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MASTER-TON, This Day. The Masterton Chess Club lias decided to play a match with a team from Festherston Camp on Wednesday next. A number of Wairarapa members of the Mounted Rifles, who have been given twenty-eight days' leave from camp, have gone back to their farms, and are engaged in docking and other operations. The local committee of the Masterton Fire Board is considering the question of procuring a first-aid car. Five grade Hereford bolls from the herd of Mr. J. 0. Bidwill, of Pihautea, Featherston, have been sent to Samoa by Messrs. Dalgety and Co., to the order of the Government. The Masterton hospital has at present forty patients, • including nine in the isolation ward. A recitation competition, open to the whole of the schools in the Wairarapa, is being organised by the Wairarapa Caledonian Society. A tour of the Tinui district will be commenced to-day by the Rev. J. H. Simmonds, of Auckland, who will instruct fanners on Hie best varieties of trees to plant for shelter purposes. The death has occurred at Te Kuiti' of Glen, the eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. Albert Hoar, formerly of Masterton and Eketahuna. ■ ' ' A man named Jack Wilson, a farm labourer, was admitted to the. Masterton Hospital on Saturday suffering from_ a wound in the head, caused by his having discharged a shotgun at himself in a. wha-re at Land's End. The wound is not regarded as being serious.