WAIRARAPA

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 7033, 22 January 1910, Page 2

WAIRARAPA

FROil OUR OWN CORRESPONDENTS. MASTERTON. January 21

Mrs Colo, senior, of Masterton, who lias been seriously ill, is now making satisfactory progress towards recovery.

Thor© is a probability of Mr Wade, Premier of New South Wales, visiting Masterton, he having expressed his intention of doing so if time permits. In tho Mangaono Valley this season the rape crops have turned out particularly well and there should thus he a plentiful supply for stock. The Greytown Presbyterian Church has decided to purchase a new organ for the church, and intends asking Mr Maughan Barnett, of Wellington, to select an. instrument for them.

Mr V. E. Donald, of Donald and Sons, Masterton, will leave for Sydney next month to take charge of the firm’s branch in tho Now South Wales capital. Tho rain that has fallen within the past twenty-four hours has done an immense amount of good to > rape and other ground crops. Very little damage has been done to wheat and oat crops.

Mr J. Gcorgeson, Inspector of Factories at Masterton, has left for Gisborne, having received worth that his mother is lying there seriously ill. Mr A. Donald, of Wellington, is carrying on Mr Georgeson’s duties during his absence. ■Mr Samuel M. Clark, who. was found in an unconscious condition in a paddock at Longbush on Tuesday night, having suffered a paralytic stroke, died in the Greytown hospital on "Wednesday night. The deceased, who was fifty-eight years of age', was at one time caretaker of the Opaki racecourse.

The Nircaha Dairy Company paid out yesterday the sum of £ll7B 7s 6d for milk supplied during tho month of December, being at the rate of 8d per pound for butter-fat. Tho average test for tho month was 3.8. Tho supply of milk has fallen from 3000 gallons to 3300 gallons daily. THo Masterton Homing Pigeon Club held an interval race from Kaitok© yesterday, the result being as follows: —W, Dowling’s “Pride of Petono,” 1; H. W. Lett’s “Wind,” 2; W. Drake's “Skysail.” 3.