MASTERTON NEWS

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVI, Issue 8186, 30 July 1912, Page 4

MASTERTON NEWS

FEOM OUB OWN COEBESPONDENT. July 29. A movement is on foot in Mils ter ton to ask the Welliugton Education Board to establish a high school in Master* ton. The Wellington Warehousemen’s Association has donated JES 5s to the prize fund of the Carterton A. and P. Association. There are at present twenty-eight patients, including four cases of fever, In the Masterton hospital. The Ihuraua road is at present blocked by slips, and traffic has been suspended. The Masterton A. and P. Association will in future hold its annual meeting in the month of August instead of July. Tho Foresters' Lodge has presented Bro. Wimsett with a P.C.1l- neck ribbon and a beautifully framed Forester's Emblem as a token of appreciation of the work done by him on behalf of ths lodge. ~ ~ . Mrs T. Gardner, a very old resident of the district, and mother of the president of the local Labor Party, is seriously ill, and small hopes are entertained for her recovery. Henry Goodin, cycle agent, of Greytown, has been adjudged bankrupt, A benefit given by the Masterton Pio-, lure Company, in aid of the Masterton members of the Wairarapa ladies’ hockey team, which is bo visit tho Auckland tournament, was not os successful us it was expected to be —the girls will only receive about between them. A number of acts of vandalism were committed in Masterton last night, A uig two-horse brake was removed from one property and placed across tho lootpath in Chapel street, near the borough council offices, a portion of a dray was placed opposite Messrs Levin and Co.’s premises in Chapel street, and a horsemower put across the footpath in Perry street. A gig was removed from Mr J. C. Ewington's coach factory in Queen street, tuiU taken to Aicbsis Oomumo ■and Whittaker's premises, wliere tho shafts were pushed through tho office window, two panes of gloss being broken. A show case rn front of Mr A. It. MaltDy's restaurant was dragged about two cnaius up tne street, and some plants ho had m pots pulled out and scattered nil over the looipath. A ladder belonging to tho borough gas department was scoured and an attempt made to effect an entrance through a window above tne door of Mr baba’s draper’s shop, tho shop next door, occupied by a Chinese, being subjected ito similar attentions. Many other minor acts of vandalism are reported. _ , At tiro b.M. Court this morning a youth named Eoy Geary was charged with having been drunk and disorderly in Queen street at midnight on Saturday. From the evidence of the police it appeared accused was with men named Jesse Lew, Sid Cross, and others in Queen street, and was shouting out and singing. On two occasions ho was warned by the police,' and after taking no notice he was arrested. The bench severely reprimanded accused and discharged him. The police stated that accused had been warned several time* on previous occasion* as to his conduct in the streets.