LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Wairarapa Age, 1 October 1930, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

One bankruptcy was registered in the Wairaraps te September, making eight to date this year. The North Wairarapa Rifle Association will hold its annual meeting at the Papawai range on Saturday. The following are the vital statistics registered in Masterton for September, the figures for the same month last year being given in parentheses: Births, 23 (30); 'deaths, » (Tl); marriages; 1 (5). ■ The Masterton Borough Council issudd 14 building permits to the value of £7184 10s for September. For the corresponding month last year the Council issued 9 permits to the value of £2945. No building permits were issued by the Masterton County Council for September. Parents and. others interested in the Fenrose Farm School are reminded, of the public meeting; to' be- held in the Farmers' Rooms, Perry Street, this evening, at 7.30. Information regarding the Education Department’s proposals will be given by two of its senior officers—Messrs.. W, W. Bird and W. 8. La Trobe—and applications for enrolment at the firm school will be received.

The Castlepoint County Council recently sponsored; the formation, of a District Committee of the Progress League, Councillor 'A. A. Schofield being appointed convenor. The committee is now fully constituted and the first meeting will be held at Tinui at 2.30 p.m. on , next Saturday afternooq, when county councillors and the public have been invited to be present. The' Organising Secretary, Mr. J. N. McLean, will address the gathering on the aims and objects of the league. The Masterton Harrier Club will conclude its social activities for the year witil a dance in the Masonic Hall on Saturday night next. The Savoy Orphieans will provide the dance music Wd a capable ladies’ committee has the- supper arrangements well in hand. The several dances held by the club during the season have all been well attended and have proved very' enjoyable. The fina] danee on Saturday night will, no donbt, maintain fully this high standard. “That having considered the appeal of the Wairarapa High School against, the decision of the. Management Committee on the question of playing two boys allegedly over age in the sixth grade match, Featherston v. High School it has been unanimously -decided that the appeal be ’dismissed,” was the decision of the appeal commttee Consisting of Messrs. G. H. Perry, G. D. Wilson a-nd A. L. Webster which was set up at the last meeting of the Wairarapa Rugby Union to consider an appeal against a decision of the Management Committee by the Wairarapa High School. The speaker at yesterday's luncheon of the Masterton Optimist Club was Dr. N. H. Prior, who dealt with the discovery and use of antiseptics. Science, he stated, knew no national boundaries and men of all nationality contributed to its discoveries. For the discovery and use of antiseptics they weje indebted to two great men, one a Frenchman and one an Englishman. IX Prior dealt at some length with the experiments of Pasteur and the studies of Lister. It was due to these two men, said the speaker, that the battle against disease had been so successful.

. “Reports from our districts show excellent lambing results both to black face and white face; hoggets have wintered well, there not having been the mortality of the previous year,” said Mr. C. M. Bowden in his address as chairman of directors at the annual meeting of the W.F.C.A. Ltd., yesterday. “In some districts there have been heavy losses of ewes. iSpeaking generally, the Wairarapa and Bush Districts have not been adversely affected. The larger flocks and herds carried are no doubt due, in some degree, to the policy of fop-dressing. Increased numbers of lambs and increased quantity of wool and dairy produce would,' to some extent, offset the lower prices ruling, aa was the ease last year. Though exports showed a substantial decline in values, there were -wonderful increases in volume.”

Vacancy in private home for two young men boarders.