CARTERTON.

New Zealand Mail, 21 July 1892, Page 18

CARTERTON.

The Wairarapa South County Council are owners of two hotels —The Gladstone and The Lake Ferry. They are let on lease, subject to certain conditions as to keeping the ferries open, if required. The Council also receive all the license fees for hotels in the county, yet they allowed one of their own tenants to make default in the payment of renewal and lose the license. There is no provision to make good the payment after the fourteen days of grace have elapsed, and the Chairman of the County and Councillor W. C. Buchanan have been appointed to wait upon the Colonial Secretary with a view of getting Government to grant a renewal. It is of the utmost importance the Wairarapa Lake ferry should be kept up, but no one will undertake that duty if the license is taken away from the Ferry House. A circular has been received from the Minister of Agriculture by all the local authorities here, intimating that the 4th of August lies been appointed an Arbour Hay throughout the Colony. It has been received by the South County Council in rather a lukewarm manner. There is a strong feeling amongst councillors that it is a decided mistake to plant trees along the highways of the district. It was pointed out that for years past the various Governments had been selling bush lands on hill-sides, which were utterly unfit for settlement and should have been reserved for the benefit of their climatic influences. The bush had been ruthlessly burnt off, and the resu’t was many of the streams that used to make the plains fertile had dried up, and expensive irrigation works had to be undertaken. The chairman suggested reserves should be secured for treeplanting, but he raised his voice against the indiscriminate planting of trees on the roadsides. A resolution in accordance with these views was ultimately carried. The question of erecting Homes for the poor in the Wairarapa is another important matter that is not looked upon with general favour in the South Wairarapa. The idea originated in Masterton, and expression was given to the feeling that it would simply mean a transferring of the payments now made to Wellington to Masterton. Charitable relief is an important matter, and one that is making itself more prominent year by year. The South County Council this year are called upon to provide between £6OO and £7OO.

The delegates appointed by the Middle Island Dairy Association to visit the various factories in tho North Island have made their tour, going through the West Coast, Taranaki, Woodville, and the Wairarapa. Mr James R. Scott, of Dunedin, the Secretary of the Association, was here on Friday. He has met with wonderful success wherever he has been, and the result will be the whole of the North Island factories will join in a body, and the name will be altered to the New Zealand Dairy Association. A eeoretary, resident at Wellington to look after the shipping of produce will be appointed before the next season commences in October. Mr W. J. Gandy is mentioned as likely to receive the appointment, subject entirely to the approval of tho North Is’*cnd Factoi’y Companies The Hunt Club’s first ball is the social event of the greatest importance in this district at the pi’esent time. It will be held on Friday, the 22ud instant, and the Palace Hall, Greytown will be nicely deeoi'ated for the occasion. The ladies are busily engaged with their dressmakers, and, given fine weather, a large and fashionable gathering may be expected. The Greytown School Committee are very wroth with the Education Board for an alleged slight. Some eight or nine months ago applicatioix was made to the Board for a grant in aid to metal the school grounds, and the money is not forthcoming yet. For want of gravel the school grounds are in a deplorable condition, and the committee have determined to make but one more appeal for funds to Ihe Board, which if not favourably responded to by their next regular meeting, they resign in a body.