WAIRARAPA

Evening Post, Volume CI, Issue 62, 14 March 1921, Page 8

WAIRARAPA

CARTERTON, Thie Day. The monthly meeting of stewards of the Taratahi-Carterton Racing Club was held on Saturday afternoon, Mr. W. Howard Booth presjaing. It was resolved to apply for totalisator permits for 29th and 31st October.. The New Zealand Racing Conference wrote asking for names of persons warned off the course, and the names of thoso from whom entries had been refused, this request being in accordance with a resolution passed in 1917. As the club had no knowledge of anyone having been warned off, and had not had occasion to ■rofuee entries, it was decided to reply accordingly. It was decided that in future the course* detective employed by the club bo requested to furnish a report to tho stewards after each meeting.

A representative gathering assembled at the Carterton Post Office corner on Saturday afternoon to extend a welcome and congratulations to Rifleman E. E. Vennell, who wa6 on his way home to Te WhaTau after having won the King's Prize and championship at the Dominion Rifle Meeting at Trentham. The Municipal' Silver Band was in attendance, and addresses appropriate to the occasion were given by his Worship the Mayor (Mr. W. Howard Booth) and several citizens. Rifleman Vennell, in acknowledging tho welcome, expressed the hope that Carterton would move in the. matter of forming a rifle club, and should he proceed to Bifiley ho would use his best endeavours to uphold the honour of Wairarapa, as he had been able to do at Tronthani. Hearty cheers were accorded the champion, who was also recorded a reception at Greytown.

The champion of champions game for the Wairarapa Bowling' Centre will be played at Carterton on Saturday next. The- Featherston School Committee has been advised by the Wellington Education Board i yiat the tender of Messr6. Auger and Norris, builders, Lower Hutt, has been accepted for the . erection of a new. school «n wood on concrete foundations. The area of the new school-grounds will comprise four acres. MASTERTON, This Day.. The skeleton of a man was fouhcPon the .bank of the Whareama River, near Tinui, on Saturday. The body had apparently! beon bleaching for 6ome months. It has not yet been identified, a. pair _of boots being the only means of establishing identification. •

At a meeting of the General Committee of the Masterton A. and P. Association on Saturday, it wae reported that a profit of £147 had been made on the last show.

Harvest thanksgiving services were held in Knox Church, Masterton, on Sunday. The cause list for the circuit session of the Supreme Court, which opens on Friday next, is comparatively light.

Messrs. " Vine and Wilson will sell at their rooms, Dominion-avenue, to-morrow, linos, piano, and furniture.