MASTERTON NOTES.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 854, 28 June 1910, Page 2

MASTERTON NOTES.

A meeting of the managers of the 3fas» torton Technical School was hold on Saturday criming, Mr. W. 11. Jackson presiding. The treasurer reported a credit balance-at date of .£261 10s. Cd. Mr. H. Sievlhs wrote, staling tliat ho hod col. lected JE4O in aid of the wool-classing class at Tenui. Tlic secretary stated that the instructor (Mr. Woods)" had his hnnds full this season, but arrangements would be made for holding classes iu the outlying districts next year. A letter was received from thu li«pirtor-{3ein.fal of -.- Schools stating that an application by the managers for the recognition of a drawing class at St. 'Bride's Convent would, if in order, receive favourable considcration. St. Matthew's parish will be represented at the Diocesan Synod to bft held in Wellington on J«ly 5 by the Eev. W. Kaine and Rev. A. Watson. Very few properties in this district have changed Bands during the last ' '. twelve months. In several cases, however, exchanges have beeii made for properties elsewhere. The system of ex- .'' change does not seem to prevent, the same attraction as it did a few months ' back, wneu uionej- was scarcer.' The iNVLicense party will hold a demonstration in the Masterton Town Hall ' on June 30 to celebrate the end of tho ' nist year of No-license. A number of prominent No-License advocates "from vanous parts of the Dominion are expected • to tako part m the "rally." . . ' It would appear that there is a" pro- " : spect of a Local Government Bill with T important provisions, being introduced - during the coming session •. of Parliament. At a meeting-of-the' Wairarapa ' w>uth County Council on Saturday, ; Mr. U. H. Woltos (county clerk), who ia • recognised as usually. • well- informed, ' stated that the Government dueing tie number of counties in New Zealand, and making ooie county extend from Capo Palliser to Woodvilie. In Cms connection it may be interesting to know tliat sicce the late Mt. . Seddon intimated his intention of reducing the nnm- ' bei , of Counties, Bills have- been passed" '•• through Parliament fevering the Masterton County into five different unite, , arid the Wairarapa Comity into two. ; Speak-- . ing on the proposals as outlined by the - Count}- Council, Mr. W. Perry (chairman . ■ of the Wairarapa County Council) stated '• ■. - on Saturday that it was no doubt a good id«i to reduce the number of counties, .-.- but Jie was of. opinion- that it.was-iin unwise'step to merge the Wairarapa. and Forty-Mile. Bush intoone county, as the, county was of different formation and required separate-management. v. - Mr. E. J. Hughes, a well-known pioneer'■ settler of Pahiatua, bos taken up a large '•' block.of country ai Mohaka, in Hawke's '• Mn and Mrs. T. P. Mills, who, are ' in charge of the Presbyterian Orphanage at Brooklyn, conducted services in Knox Church on Sunday, when a collection was taken up in aid of the orphanage funds. ■