CARTERTON NEWS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 8206, 31 July 1905, Page 6

CARTERTON NEWS.

(Specidt to Daily Times.)

On Friday a general meeting of the Wairarapa and East Coast Pastoral and Agricultural Society was held, when it ivas decided to recommend the Programme Committee to include a competition for qualified hunters, to be held on the first day of the 1905 Show, and also a competition for boys and girls ponies on the second day. A buck-jumping competition will also be held on the second day, on similar lines to those held at Oamaru and Dimedin. The annual horse parade is to be held on Saturday, September i)th.

Mr R. llerrick, who rescued Mr Franks, sen., and the little girl Mr Franks was endeavouring to save from drowning in a, gravel pit, has, through his experience, suffered a severe chill. Mr llerrick was recovering from measles, and the result of his plunge info water laid him up, and medical advice had to be called in.

At a meeting of the local Borough Council Drainage Committee, after going into figures and work done, decided to call a meeting of the Council for next Tuesday evening, for the purpose of considering the report on the progress made, which is considered satisfactory by the Drainage Executive Committee.

An enthusiastic meeting of the residents of Clareville, interested in the erection of a Town Hall for that district, was held on Thursday evening, Mr W. Fisher in the chair. After the scheme had been submitted, the sum of .£SO 10s was collected in the room. The question of a suitable site was held over for further consideration. A Canvassing Committee as follows was set up :-—

Cemetery Line, Messrs A. Daysh and C. Reid: Masterton, C. Campbell and J. McDonald ; Carterton, W. Fisher and T. Ray; East Taratahi, C. Reynolds ; Somerset-road, J. Monaghan; Hughes and Frances Line, R. McLaren; Clareville, Russell, Dnimmond and Anderson. The scheme, so far, has met with success, and by the time this Committee has to report to the next meeting it is expected that enough money will have been subscribed to enable the Hull to be erected.

Mr Frank Bunny, a member of the local Hockey Club, has been chosen in the North Island team, to play the South Island at Christchureh on August 3rd.

Mr Hector Nicolson, who has accepted a position on the Otaki Mail, left here by the afternoon train on Saturday, en route for his new sphere of labour. Mr Nicolson will be greatly missed here, as he has always taken a keen interest in outdoor sports, and whatever he took in hand, always made a success of it. He has been a valuable help to the local hockey clubs, acting in the capacity of " coach " and referee, and it was gratifying to note that the Clubs did not let him depart without giving him some tokens of their appreciation of his services. By the alteration of the holidays of the. public schools, into three sets, it makes a quarter's instruction in the Technical School ten weeks. Mr R. G. Welch has donated a guinea towards the Winter Show prize list, of the Wairarapa Horticultural Society. Mr M. Dumbleton, formerly manager of the Dalefield cheese factory, has purchased a farm of 310 acres, at Tauherenikau, and intends shortly to erect up-to-date buildings upon it. The Directors of the Wairarapa Terminating Society have arranged that the first ballot is to take place on August 9th, when two sums of £150 will be drawn for.

Sickness is reported to be prevalent in this district at present.