WAIRARAPA NEWS

Evening Post, Volume XCVI, Issue 77, 27 September 1918, Page 8

WAIRARAPA NEWS

(BY IBLEGEAPH.—SPECIAL TO THE POST.)

MASTERTON, This Day. . , The Wairarapa Druid Lodges, at the recommendation of tho Grand Lodge, are taking steps to form a District board. This board will elect<one of its members to represent the district at the next Grand Lodge conference. '. The death has occurred in Wellington of Mr. W. F. Harding, a returned soldier, who was recently in the employ of Sir. C. J. Bennett, of Otahuao v Masterton.

Influenza is very prevalent in Masterton at the present time. .' : Mr. William Pickiri, a son of the fete Mr. William Pickin, of Johnsonville, who is well known in Petc-ne, died in the • Masterton Hospital this week, at the "age of 50 years. . The Pensions Board will sit at Masterton on Tuesday, Bth October, and at Carterton on the following, day. A sum of £16117s 9d has been collected in the-Pirinoa district in aid of the Maori Soldiers' War Fund,. ' The Carterton Borough Council has decided to assk the member for the dis- . triofc to wait upon the Minister for Public Works, and bring '■ before him the alleged injustice done to the Carterton Borough by the high allocation,of its share in the cost of the proposed, Wai - ngawa bridge. Mr. W. Winslade headed the hst in the championship shoots in Class "A" of the Masterton Miniature Rifle Association for the 1918 season. Mr. WJ Richards was the most successful in. Class "B;" Mr. T. Moss, of the National Efficiency Board, has/informed the Wairarapa Returned Soldiei-s' Association that there 'are .many, .difficulties:,in the way of the Government advancinc moneys to reesUbJish returned soldiers in trasiiwM.