WAIRARAPA NEWS

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 8609, 20 December 1913, Page 7

WAIRARAPA NEWS

From Our Own Correspondent. December 19' The following officers have been nominated for positions in tho ' Carterton Oddfellows’ JUxlgi;N.G., Bros. J. SteTems, At. Bisli. J. A. Wallace;. V.G., Bros. M. tiisb anti .J. Stevens. Bro. Smart has been nominated for tho position of Deputy Craucl Master at the annual district meeting, tvjucji. is to be held at Mangataiuoka rn February next. The residents of Belvedere aro moving <n tho direction of having the rujxti delivery taken by way of Belvedere School and round through Carrington. At present the rural delivery goes by tho iway of Cobden road through Hinau dully, and returns through the Carrington settlement. If tho now system is adopted it will mean th<? abolition of the post office at tho Belvedere School. Mr Cordon Lloyd, of Dannevirke. has been appointed deputy stipendiary steward for the Taxatahi-Garterton races op Boxing May. A new cheese company has been formed at Maugataiuoka, and Messrs Koss, Biddings, Broad, Bryan, Hunter, Vatos . and Mason have been appointed provisional directors. Mr F. Wise, of Akelahuna, is acting as secretary. The Nire'aha Cheese Company will pay Mit/ £IBB3 to suppliers for milk supplied In November, this being at the rat© of VI per pound of butter-rat. The dairy cow competition of the Bush ilia trims A. and P. Association has been non bv Messrs Morgan Bros., formerly y.f Carterton. The lambs which are being killed at Iho Waingawa meat works . this season uro above tho average in weight and quality. Good percentages are being taken in the drafts, one Bush settler having 50 per cent, of his lambs taken ‘n the first “cut.” At the meeting of the Ekerahuna Chamber of Commerce on Wednesday might it was decided to draw tho attendon of tho Minister for Itailways to the fact that anomalies exist in tho railway trfofflo, and request that the general manger, if possible, remedy these when revising tho tariff. A further motion was carried that the Minister for Raiiivays bo requested -to remove the penal Sates on hardwood timber. While driving a passenger in his motor par into Alasterton yesterday afternoon Mr T. Holland had a l * narrow escape from being shot. Ho was passin gbotween tho Waipona bridges when e. bullet, presumably from a ooa rifle, crashed through the wind sheet in close proximity to his head. The matter has been placet! in the hands of the police. A man named Valler was admitted to tho Masterton Hospital yesterday afternoon suffering from a broken leg, the result of a motor car accident at Carkerton. About twelve members of tbo Opa!n Rifle Club will compete at the 'Wellington rifle mooting on December 2Gth and tTth. Several raorabors of the club.will jlso compete at the Auckland exhibition •Meeting.