LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Wairarapa Age, 14 August 1930, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

I A slight shock of earthquake was felt in Maserton at 10.25 o’clock last night.

All members of the Farmers’ Union are cordially invited Io attend the meeting of the Wairarapa Provincial Executive which, is to be held in the Farmers’ Rooms, Perry Street, at 10.30 a.m. to-day. During the week-end a number of members of the Optimist Club visited Wellington and were entertained by the city club. A letter of thanks is being forwarded to the Wellington Club for the hospitality extended to members of the Masterton Club.

In view or the fact that the TwoGarment Society reports having sufficient: clothing in hand to meet the immediate needs cf cases of distress, the Optimist Club, at its meeting on Tuesday, decided not to hold its proposed “clothes drive” at present.

A reminder is given of the Wairarapa Caledonian Society’s ball, which is to be held in the Municipal Hail to-night. Dancing will commence at 8 o’clock and the music will be played by Mills’s Orchestra. The indications are for a most successful function.

A party of twenty Y.M.C.A. boys from Napier is to visit Masterton on August 27. The boys will stay for four days, and engage in outdoor and indoor games with the local Y.M.C.A. boys. The following week a party of Masterton Y.M.C.A. boys will go to Wanganui on a brief visit. Owing to the use of a contraction on an entry form, the manure used by Mr. H. B. Maunsell, who gained third place in the Sutton Cup Swede Growing Competition, was erroneously given in the official list as “W.F.C.A. special mixture.” This should have been “F.CJS.C. special mixture.” At its annual meeting yesterday, the Masterton A. and P. Association acknowledged gratefully donations of £5 from Mr. R. C. Kebbell, Lower Hutt, £4 from Mr. A. Meeeh, Pongaroa and £9 from Mr. William Perry, Penrose—the sum last-mentioned being prize-money handed baek to the association.

All dairy farmers are invited to hear the addresses on “Herd Imprdvement” to be delivered by Mr. C. M. Hume, Dominion Supervisior of Herd Testing, at the P. and A. Society’s Rooms in 'Carterton to-morrow at 1.30 p.m. and at Greytown at 8 p.m. The opportunity of hearing Mr. Hume is one that no dairy farmer anxious to keep abreast of times should miss. “These roads are in a better condition now than they have been for some years,” said the Borough Engineer (Mr. C. R. Mabson) yesterday when referring to the complaint made at the meeting of the Masterton County Council on Tuesday in regard to the bad state of the boundary roads. Mr. Mabson stated that a considerable amount of metalling had been done this year. An evening of bright and merry eniertainment is promised at the dance to be given by the Wairarapa High School Parents’ Association in the Municipal Social Hall on Saturday evening. The function is for past and present pupils of' the school and all old boys and old girls are cordially invited to atttend. Dancing is to start at 7.30 pan. A class of exhibit which had been instituted at Auckland shows is the “Onj Man Farm Exhibit,” being i competitive class of samples of all produce from a farm where no outside labour is employed. This, Mr. R. J. Barton observed at the annual meeting of the Masterton A. and P. Association yesterday, was eminently suitable for small farm areas and might prove applicable to Masterton. The rain experienced during the past week has held up work on the Waipoua River improvement scheme, which is Icing carried oat as an unemployment relief work. The Borough Engineer Mr. C. R. Mabson, hopes to recommence operations in a day or two. There are still some willow trees to be cleared away and the men will be mainly occupied with this work until the cutting of the channel is possible. A complaint brought forward b Mr. E. L. Rayner at the annual meeting of the Masterton A. and P. Association yesterday and referred to the Gates Committee, had reference to the action of some gatekeepers in charging for the admission of children to the last show. Mr. R. J. Barton (president) said it should bo generally known throughout the Wairarapa that ehidlren were admitted to the show free. A notice to that effect had been posted on the main gate. Knocked down, by a city bound train at Silverstream at about 3.45 p.m. yesterday Isabel Frances Orr, aged 5 years, of Marlborough Street, Silverstream, received a fracture of the left arm and also suffered from The little girl was brought by the train to Lambton Station and conveyed to the Hospital by ambulance. Reports from the hospital lato last night stated that her condition was serious and that she had not regained consciousness.—'(P.A.) It seemed regrettable, observed Mr. R. J. Barton in his presidential address at the annual meeting of the Masterton A. and P. Association yesterday, that the agricultural bias they had been promised had not been observed in appointments to the Upper House. The failure to reappoint Mr. E. Newman was to be deplored, considering his immense services to agricultural interests. Since the death of Sir Walter Buchanan, the Wairarapa district had bad no r< tive. j

The weekly budget of -Friday i-pce ials at.“ The Fanners” are again interesting and certainly well worthy of investigation. There is a genuine Friday special in every section of Masterton’s Departmental Store. See page 3 of this issue.