WAIRARAPA

Evening Post, Volume XCIX, Issue 78, 1 April 1920, Page 8

WAIRARAPA

(BT TELEHRAPH.—SPECIAL TO THE TOST.') ' MASTERTON, This Day. The chief attraction in Masterton at Easter will be a fire brigade demonstration. Tournaments will also be held by the bowling and lawn tennis clubs. A sufficient supply of cement has been received by the Masterton Borough Council to enable it to proceed with the work at the new septic tank, which had been held up for a period. 1 An important reorganisation of the administrative staff of the Masterton Borough Council is about to be undertaken. The changes will include the severance of tbe positions of town clerk and engineer. / The Castlepomt County Council has decided to declare gorsa a noxious -weed. No bankruptcies have been recorded in the Wairarapa for the month of March. It is now many months since a bankruptcy was registered in this district. . Building permits to the value of £9350 ■have been issued in Masterton during the past month. During the past quarter only eight persons' have been charged with drunkenness in. Masterton. The whole of the. offenders came from outside districts. The game of hockey is to be revived in . Masterton'in the coming season. A golf ball is to be held in Mast«Tton on the nisrht, of the visit of His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales. Supplies of milk to the dairy factories have sharply diminished during the last ■week or two. ! ■ . OARTERTON, 31st March. Several members of the Featherston Rifle Club will be competing at the rifle meeting to be held at Hastings at Easter. ' An auction sale of business properties was held at Carterton on Tuesday, but competition was not spirited. A corner section, having a frontage of lllf links to High-street, 1 and 232 links to Belvedere-street, with a large wooden shop and dwelling thereon, was sold in the estate of the late William Mouarty for £2250, to Mr. T. J. Watson. , ■ ; ' . . Building operations in C&rterton at the present time are very, active) especially in regard to dwellings, and it is estimated that the shortage of houses is fully 40, with an ever-increas-ing demand. Work in many cases is being held up, on account of the shortage of materials, which appear very difficult to secure. Messrs. W. Booth and Co v Ltd., are making arrangements to rererect without delay-their; planing mill, which was destroyed, by fire on Monday night.