WAIRARAPA NEWS
(BI TELEGKAPH.—SPECIAL'-TO "THE TOST.)
MASTERTON, This Day
The distribution of parcels in connection with the Wairarapa surprise packet crusade will commence on Friday, 22nd February.
Intense heat haa been experienced in the Wairarapu. during the last few days. On Wednesday the termoiv.eter registered over 88 degrees in the shade.
The erection of a traffic bridge over the Makakahi River, at Kaiparoro, between Masterton ami Eketahuna, is being strongly urged upon local authorities by the'• Wnirarapa Automobile ■ Association. ' '•■■'•
Captain R. Riddiford, M.C., of Orui, Mastorton.is at present Camp Commandant of tha N.Z. Division in Flanders.
Thetakings at the Soldiers' entertainment in Mastorton in uid of the fund for furnishiiifr the soldiers' club amounted to £16 16s 6d. ■
Letters received by a recent mail express deep gratitude on the part of New Zealand soldiers at .the front: for gift parcels, received from the Wnirarapa.
Sergeant Oswald Meenkcn, of Clareville, who left, with the Main Body, and who was wounded in France, is likely to return to Now Zealand shortly.
The 'weekly dances for soldiers from the Feathcrston Camp will probably be resumed in Masterton. next month.
Word has been received that Private W.E. Daysh. of Taratahi, was wounded on 21at January.
No criminal _ cases have yet been set down for hearing at the March sessions of tho Supreme. Court hi Masterton.
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Evening Post, Volume XCV, Issue 40, 15 February 1918, Page 2
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