MASTERTON NEWS

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVI, Issue 8190, 3 August 1912, Page 15

MASTERTON NEWS

from oua own co2r.r:rc::r,r:rr August 2. Mr J. Cormack, of the .local railway staff,-has been transferred to Taihape. Mr Hicks Parker, a very old resi. dent of Mangatainoka died in t.h« Pahiatua hospital on Wednesday. H« was ninetv-two years of ago, and is survived by a family jcven sons and daughters. The Masterton Pacing Club has s membership of about 2(jo, and an effort is to be made during the incoming year to considerably increase that number. Though building operations art quiet in Masterton itself, there is considerable activity in the trade in th« country where a number of important contracts are being carried out. Messrs Thompson and Payne have decided to give the local harriers a benefit on Tuesday and Wednesday nights next. Mr T. Cooper, who has been connected with the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company for the past seven years, has joined tht firm of Dalgety and Co. At the annual dinner of the Masterton Fire Brigade last evening Mr E, Pragnell was nrercuted with a twentyfive years’ service gold star. year certificates were awarded to Brancbmen H. Moore, W. Blinkhorno, C. Cole and S. Dixon, and two-year extra service bars to Mr E. Pragnell, Deputy Pickering and Foreman Jen. kins.

The contract for the new Bank ol New South Wales building at Carterton has been let to Messrs Cora din* and Whittaker, of Masterton.