WAIRARAPA

Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 91, 17 April 1923, Page 8

WAIRARAPA

(BI TELEGRAPH.—SPSCIAI TO THB POST.) MASTERTON, This Day. j At a public meeting last night it was ' decided to make a public recognition of the services rendered by Mr. W. H. Jackson, who is retiring from the headmastership of the Central School, after 35 years' service. It was decided that the presentation take the form of an inscribed piece of plate, a roll of notes, and an inscription to be attached to the school museum, ':i'to commemorate the work' done by 'Mj\ Jackson during his term. ■ ' ' Two men who were caught by a local honorary ranger in South Wairarapa shooting ducks out of season are to be prosecuted. The primary school cricket championship final of tie Wairarapa resulted; in a draw between the Masterton Central and Grey town Schools. Mr. F. 6. Maunsell's bat for the boy with the best baiting averag. efor school cricket was won by Mervy Williams, of the Masterton Central School, with 289 runs in seven innings, giving an average of 41.2. Mr. W. H. Jackson had donated to the Wairarapa, High School a complete X-ray apparatus, fitted with a powerful coil, condenser, fluorescent screen, and Crook's tubes. The gate takings at the seven-a-side football tournament at Carterton on Saturday amounted to £33, as compared with £25 last year. In order to encourage the study of New Zealand history at the Wairarapa High. School, Mr. T. Jordon has offered a special prize of £2 2s annually to be com--peted for by the whole of the school, without restrictions. -.-... A debating society has been formed 1 in.'connection with the "Eketahuna^Oddfellows' Lodge. „',.■■ . The Pahiatua branch of the B.S.A. is likely to disband owing to the lack of interest shown by its members. The Tinui branch of the Farmers' Union has decided to ask the Castlepoint County Council to improve the road to the loading jetty at Castlepoint, as many of the settlers intend to ship their wool next season, owing to high cost of transport to the Masterton railway station. During the week-end a party consisting Messrs. F. Cole, B. Braggins, G. SeTby, and H. E. Gardner paid a visit to the bush at Mount Holdsworth, and brought back a fine collection of native shrubs and trees which are to be planted in the native border in the Masterton Park.