WAIRARAPA

Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 86, 10 April 1924, Page 13

WAIRARAPA

<BI TELEGRAPH—6PECIAL TO THE POST.) MASTERTON, This Day. For the year ended 31st March, the Masterton County Council collected rates totalling £18,666. During the same period the sum of £14,175 was spent on roads. House-wiring jobs - completed, or for which estimates have been accepted by the Wairarapa Power Board, are as follow; Masterton 363, Carterton '297, Greytown 66, Featherston 131, Martinborough 13; total 870. The total number °t consumers now taking curreritsis 885. The largest installation placed with' the board is that of Mr. Frank Wall; Martinborough, who has ordered the installation of two 50 h.p. and one 20h.p. motor for-his flax mill, and about 60 points for his residence. The recent road tallies taken in connection with the main highways scheme cost the Masterton County Council £123 Mr. S. E. W." Farrell, accountant for tna Masterton Engineering Company, haa been appointed full-time instructor m commercial subjects at the Masterton technical School. > Mr. E. Bell, who has been actih°--secretary to the Mastertou Woollen Mills Company, has been appointed permanently to the position. . . Mr. C. H; Wilson, the newly-appointed engineering .instructor at the Masterton technical School, has taken up his duties. . \ - ■ The Wairarapa. Power. Board met at Carterton on Tuesday, Mr. J. C Cooper (chairman) presiding. Tho treasurer's statement showed, total receipts on account of loan moneys, £170,000; local debentures, £11,200; installation depqsits. £6198 16s:..sales current, £253 6s- other receipts £5386 13s 4d. Payments: Waiohine investigation, £3170 18s 4d; stores, ,£90,857 17s 7d ; wages and salaries, £20,189 65.-10 d; other payments, £73,445.14s Id; total, £187,663 16s lOd. .Balances were : Construction Loan account credit, £17,374 0s 3d ; power fund1 account credit, £248 14s 2d; installation' account .debit,, £3550 3s 7d. Accounts totalling £29,196 19s 3d were authorised for payment. . Authority was given to arrange with the bank.for a temporary overdraft of £5000/ until the next lban of- £10,000. comes, in oh Ist May. The Public Works Department advised that power would be available from the Masterton sub-station by .June, 1925. Applications from Messrs. Nitz Bros. P.' Kiiinmer, J. Bannister, a joint application, and,Mr. D. M'Gregoiy for licenses to-, erect hydro' plants,, were referred to the engineer. The annual, meeting was fixed for 12th May.. -'in-ap-preciation of his services during his! term of office, the secretary was granted three months leave of absence on full pay •rt: was decided that ■ Mr. J. Kirk/ of" Tauranga, be appointed architect': and clerk of works of the board' for a period of seven months. ;. Resolved that a tworoomed cottage be,erected at the powerhouse at Kourarau. for the attendant. Additional wiremen- are being employed. 1 At a meeting of' the Carterton School Committee, held on Monday evening,' occasion was taken by the :chairman to. present the retiring secretary, the Rev. Mr. Perryman,- who is leaving for Fbxtou/'with a pocket wallet ,as a token of esteem. ' ".'.■•

The Hon. C. J. Paw, Minister of Education, visited th'o Wairaraua ,on. Tuesday, when he received deputations from the- various schools. ' He was accompanied by; Miv A. D. M'Leod. MP; and Messrs., vW. T. Grundy and 'T; Moss, members of the Education Board. The Featherston ■ Committee . asked ' for a cookery1 and woodwork' room,'.but no promise was made. Departmental officers are to confer with, the board.1 At Kahutaia' a,-school residence was asked for, and the matter is to be reierred to the board. .A deputation ' asked ■ for a. schools in., another portion of Kahutaia, as some children have to travel over six miles. No promise was made, but the matter _is- to be .referred to the board. At. .Perinoa a teacher's residence was asked for, and.the.request is to be considered. „ The Carrineton School ' Committed .was granted £14 towards tarring and sanding ; the play, crounds, and tlio Carterton School Committee' £60, providing it .does not prejudice the policy of the, Department. . , . ••