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Wairarapa Age, 14 March 1925, Page 4

Protection has been removed from the little owl as from March 4.

Fish are very plentiful at Lake Ferry. Several big catches have been reported recently. The Masterton Municipal Band will render a programme of music in the Park to-morrow afternoon. A large number of tradesmen in Carterton have subscribed to the Thursday Half-Holiday Fighting Fund.

Consent has been given te the Mauriceville County Council to rgise a loan of £250 for metalling part of Cleland’s road.

R. Goulding, a married man with two children, a farmer at Mangatoki, was killed yesterday by being struck with a falling pole while hay-making.

Sufficient names have been obtained to a petition at Featherston asking that a poll be taken on the question of reverting to the capital value system of rating.

The Lake Ferry is getting more popular every day as a pleasure resort, and numbers of motor cars and motor ’buses have visited the locality every week-end.

The rate of interest prescribed by Order in Council on a loan of £2650, raised by the Pahiatua County Council for the reconstruction of Konini and Warren’s bridges, is 6 per cent. A proclamation is gazetted altering the boundaries of Castlepoint and Masterton Counties and including the area thus added to the Masterton County in the Upper Tauem Riding. By Order-in-Council consent has been given to the raising of a loan of £2950 by the Mastertpn Borough Coun cil for drainage extension, the rate af interest to be not over 6 per cent.

Fire broke out in the premises yesterday, of Smith and Smith, painters and paperhangers, Dunedin, but was extinguished before much damage although stock was damaged by smoke and water to the extent •f about £l6OO.

A patient in the Auckland Hospital, Frederick Hamilton, single, aged 29, was missed from the institution on Thursday night and has not been seen since. A letter was found stating that his life was a misery and he intended to do away with himself. He was suffering from tuberculosis.

It is interesting to note (says the “Standard”) that the Featherston County Council’s grader is at present at work on the main Greytown-Waio-hine road. A where is also established in the locality, which looks as ir some determined effort is to be made to improve this much-neglected thoroughfare. ,

Mr D. Smith stated at a meeting of the Masterton A. and P. Association yesterday that members of the ram fair committee had at the request of the auctioneers, attended at the Solway ram fair ring recently to discuss suggested approvements to the selling stand, but after waiting for some time none of the auctioneers turned up. This was the second occasion that the auctioneers had slipped them up.

The annual meeting of the Tuhirangi Football Club was held at Pirinoa on Saturday, there being an attendance of over 60 members. It was decided to open the season next week wjth a match, Tuhirangi v. “Has Beens. ” Four supporters signified their intention of presenting gold medals for competition. It was decided to enter a team for the junior championship and possibly aaoUier for the third class. The membership was fixed at 5/,

The Hawkes Bay “Herald's” Taupo correspondent telegraphs that a carrying contractor named Donald Robert McKenzie was killed to-day as the result of a motor lorry going over the side of the road. Coming up a short hill on the Rotorua side of tihe Wairakei Hotel, the driver of a service car noticed unusual marks on the road and upon investigation found deceased’s heavy motor lorry with a trailer about 40 feet down the hillside. Deceased’s body was lying in the scrub with one wheel of the trailer pressing on his neck.

There is apparently some doubt as to the constitution and work of the Macarthy Trust Board. The board comprises the Governor-General, the Prime Minister, Archbishop Redwood, and the Mayor of Wellington, the Public Trustee acting as secretary. There is also an advisory committee which considers the detailed questions of allocation and reports to the board, thus very considerably lightening its work. In some manner, says the “Poet” an impression Illi- gained ground that the Macarthy trustees receive an annual payment for the duties they carry out, but this is quite erroneous; members of the board and of the committee alike act in purely honorary capacity. A peculiar and costly accident occurred yesterday at Melvern’s stere in Karangahape road, Auckland. A shelving on one side of the shop, about 100 feet long, and heavily-laden with goods, camo adrift from the waif. Fortunately a line of iron piping arrested the falling shelved and probably saved the attendants and shoppers from serious injuries. The goods were precipitated over the floor and counters with a resounding crash. Four showcases, vaiaed at £5O each, were shattered and their contents transformed to debris. The damage will run into some thousands and there is no covering insurance.

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