WAIRARAPA

Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 143, 18 June 1924, Page 8

WAIRARAPA

<BI TELEGRAPH.—SPECIAL Tb THB POST.] ■ MASTERTON, This Day. . A frost of over 9 ; degrees was registered in, Masterton on Monday night. Mr. M. Ford, manager of the Masterton branch of the New Zealand Farmers' Co-operative Distributing Co., Ltd., has resigned from the company's service' and ■ will take up his residence "in Wellington at an early date. Miss :A. M. Morrison, of Wellington/ has been, appointed to take charge (of the [maternity, ward at the Masterton Hos■pital, and ( \vill take up her duties early next month; ■ The Masterton Borough Council has decided to grant the balance of the vote re.maining under, the heading "public reI venue": at the close of the financial year to the Memorial Park Board. A public farewell was tendered to the two Wairarapa representatives in the 1 All Black team, Messrs. I. Harvey and Q. Donald, last night, and was largely attended. Each guest was presented with a travelling rug. j Mr. J. V. Sherbourne, of the'P'ahiatua Post { Office staff, has received notice of his transfer to Hastings. " Mr. Green, of Auckland, has been appointed electrical inspector, tester and canvasser to the Tararua Power Board. George William Wildish, tailor of Masterton, late of Thames, has been adjudicated a bankrupt, on his own' petition. This is the first .bankruptcy notified in the.district this year. Mr. I. Chas. Smith,", who has been Wairarapa representative for Messrs. E. :W. Mills and Co., Ltd., for some years past, has returned to Wellington, to take charge of the firm's hardware-de-' part-meat. Mr. Smith will be succeeded by Mr. E. Hollisj of Wellington.