DISTRICT NEWS.

Wairarapa Age, 11 March 1922, Page 5

DISTRICT NEWS.

SOUTH WAIRARAPA ITEMS. (Our Travelling Reporter.) Martinborough made a big effort on Friday on behalf of its candidate in the Plunket Baby Carnival. A sale, of work held in the afternoon realised about £6O. In the evening an entertainment urns held, when a mock court was introduced, the fines realising something in the vicinity of £4O. Other district© will have to go some to keep pace with the supporters of Mr A. D. McLeod’s granddaughter. The totara telegraph poles on the main Martinborough road are being replaced by concrete poles. The Featherston County Council yesterday decided to vote the Featherston Fire Brigade £2 2s for its prompt turning out at the time of a fire on the first Rimutaka Hill bridge. Local bodies are gaining owing t. the shortage of work. The Featherston County Council yesterday received nine tenders for clearing out the drains on Battersea road, and these ranged from 2s 5d to 6s per chain.

The ranger to the Featherston County Council has a real grievance and threatens to resign. He points out that it is hard for him to capture a hoof. No sooner does ho get on a road than the telephone begins to work, and by the time he reaches the end of the thoroughfare it is absolutely clear of stock. Under these conditions it was impossible for him get sufficient fees to make it worth while. The Council decided to dispense with his services and call applications for the position. Speaking at the meeting of the Featherston County Council yesterday, Mr A. D. McLeod, M.P., stated that anyone fighting against the further breaking-up of the counties was doing a good service to New Zealand. Much of the country’s difficulties in regard to Commission awards had grown out of the evils of small local bodies, and if the Dominion was to have a system of national highways the only chance of success would be found along the lines of all counties extending from the ocean on the one side and the arterial roads in the centre, so that every portion of the country would be compelled to accept a. fair share of responsibility of what are termed national works.