WAIRARAPA NEWS

Evening Post, Volume XCVIII, Issue 114, 11 November 1919, Page 8

WAIRARAPA NEWS

% (IT TBLEORAJH.—SMCUL 10 IHB POST.) I ,c, ,MASTERTbN,. This Day. ' ;J The Featherston Miniature Rifle Association closes its season this week. / Carpenters ,are in strong request in Masterton. at the present time. Good, men have been offered as high as 223 6d per day.

" Thirty or forty valuable trees on tho Mastertoo; -showgrounds .were uprooted ly the recent" gale.

,;■' The Masterton syndicate of soldiers who have acquired Messrs. Ogilvy and Sons' Pine-Park Estate at Te Whiti will |ake possession of the property early next year. -•■•• ■■■

.: Councillor. E. 0. Smith has resigned his position on the Masterton County Council. . :

; It is.'proposed to hold a fanners' week jn Mastbrion'r\ViUi a'viow to instructing farmers on up-to-date methods in agriculture.

;„ A large area of land is at present being turned over in the Wairarapa, in readijuess for putting in root crops. jj A. crop of red clover' was recently .threshed for Sir. George Shaw, of Wanigaehu. It yielded fifty-three sacks of seed from fifteen acres. jThe gross proceeds would be worth over £1000.

i From the end of March to 31st October no fewer than 160 new members were elected to the Wairarapa and East Coast P. and A. Society. | Hay crops J.n. the Wairarapa are not likely to be as heavy this year as in former years.. '? Farm tractors are coming largely into use in, the Wairarapa, and,the draught Jiorse is slowly, but surely, becoming 3. thing of .the. past., • .;/.: % A team from; the Featherston Bowling Glub on Saturday won the Grady Medals from the holders (the Park Club), by three points.- ■ ' .:

i The Masterton-Opaki Rifle Club held :its first aggregate, shoot on Saturday last. Mr J. M'Kenzie was top scorer in the seniors, and E. Calwell in ithe juniors. '