MASTERTON NOTES.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1558, 30 September 1912, Page 8

MASTERTON NOTES.

(From Our Special Correspondent.) ji Masterton, September 27. }( ( Tho members of the Mastcrlou .Amateur j), Theatrical Society .staged the opera, ji "11.M.5. Pinafore," at Groytown last 1 night, lieforo a largo audience. )) ■ Tho; death has uccurrcd. of another old Jj resident, Jirs. Anno Amoon. Deceased, jj who was sixty-nine years of age, bad j) resided over thirty years in. the district, (j She leaves two grown-up eons and a ( daughter. j I A children's plain and fancy dress ball tit is being held in the Drill Hall to-night, (,| in aid of a fuud to furnish the Nurses' jl Home at Ihe Mastcrlou Hospital. ) ( Mr. .1. D, I'ilchie, chairman of tho 1^ Land Ptwclinse Beard, has inspected Mr. H A. J. Stone-Wing's Poro Poro. estnto, j ( which is under oiler to the Government. ) 1 ' A vnluer is to be sent over tho property, j 1 and a report will follow. !' The annual meeting of the Masterton ( Chamber of Commerce was held yeslerday I afternoon. Tho retiring president, in tc- ({ viewing the past year, staled that Master- {( ton. had passed through a period of pros- (/ perily. There hnd uot been a bankruptcy (j in the borough since December last, and ;) the building permits for the year had )) amounted to d£28,000. There "were also 1) good indications for tho future. Mr. C. E. ;j .Daniell was elected president for the » ensuing year, and Mr. P. T. Spain vice- \\ president. A sub-cotnniitteo was set up Jj to report on the question of establishing (j a woollen mill in the district. ({ *~'—' ' — 11