WAIRARAPA NEWS

Evening Post, Volume XCIV, Issue 74, 25 September 1917, Page 8

WAIRARAPA NEWS

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MASTERTON, This Day. The Wairarapa Bowling Centre intends considering the advisability of repeating the experiment of last year, and dividing the district into two sections, for the purposes of the shield competitions.

The Red Star junior footballers met and defeated the Carterton juniors by 20 points to nil, on Saturday last, in. a challenge match for the Pearson Cup. At St. Patrick's Church, Masterbon, on Saturday last,. Miss May Constance Hunter, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George Hunter, was married to Mr. John' J. Kissane, of Blenheim;

The takings at the Masterton Patriotic Shop on Saturday amounted to £160. The death occurred at Auckland on Thursday last of Mrs. Agnes' Ada llockell, relict of the late Mr. Martin Rockell, a pioneer journalist of the Wairarapa.

A deputation of Solway residents will wait upon the Wellington Education Board on Wednesday, in reference to the establishing of a school at the Solway settlement.

There has been a Iteen demand for benzine in Masterton of late, in anticipation of a probable advance in prices.

Writing on 7th August, our London correspondent mentions that the Rhodes Trustees have informed the authorities at Oxford that they have decided to make a grant of £1000 towards the fund which is being raised for the endowment of a Permanent Professorship of Forestry in the University. This fund, which was originally started by the present professor, Sir William Schlich, beginning with a handsome donation by himself and his former pupils, had already amounted to nearly £4000. The trustees of the University Endowment Fund have also expressed their willingness to allow the payment of £250 per annum, which they have hitherto made towards the payment of an assistant professor, to be carried this yeaT to the same fund, which will now, therefore, stand at something over £5000: ■