CARTERTON.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 2, Issue 210, 12 July 1879, Page 2

CARTERTON.

(I'KO-M OUn OWN CORRESPONDENT,) The Carterton Volunteers hud their usual weekly drill on Thursday night, the officers and thirty-two rank and file being present. There was a marked improvement in their movements. After dismissal a meeting of members of the corps was held when ilie following non-commission-ed officers were elected on the vote of the members:—Sergeants: 0. J. Jury, C. Potts, and W. Harrison. Corporals: E. Moore, J. T. Shaw.R. Crawford. Bugler: J. Meyrick, Sergeant A. W. Harrison was unanimously elected Treasurer and Secretary to the Corps. By-laws for the regulation of the Corps were passed, and 100 copies ordered to bo printed, to be supplied to the members at sixpence per copy-each member by the by-laws being bound to supply himself with a copy for his personal guidance. Seven tailors tendered for the making of the uniforms required by the Corps, and after considerable discussion that of Mr N. King, of Carterton, at £2 Os Cd per head, was accepted, the uniforms to be delivered at the rate of ten per week ; payment to be made as per resolution of the committee laid before the meeting. The Carterton Band, who have been attached to the Corps, were left to decide on what facings they would have as a distinctive mark, The subscription of members was fixed at 18s per annum, payable the first week in each month. Hon. members, cash payment of L 3, nr LI per annum. Boxing and single stick were kept up until nearly 11 o'clock. Over a hundred men working on the railway line have just struck and come into Carterton en masse, their wages having been lowered without their having been paid what was due to them. The dangerous condition of the road near the Marquis of Normanby Hotel, to which I drew attention a week or two back, was exemplined yesterday by a wagon breaking right through the covering over the drain. No serious casualty took place, but it is high time the coverhs was looked to, or some calamitous accident to life and property is bound to arise. I understand that the planking that has been put in is in parts only a couple of inches, and it will at ones be apparent that this is a totally insufficient support to sustain the heavy loads passing over the roads.