MASTERTON.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1776, 14 June 1913, Page 3

MASTERTON.

A number of territorials wore fined in the Magistrate's Court yesterday in various amounts for having failed to make the service required of them under the The contract for the erection of tho new Anglican Church in Mastcrton is now comnlcted. Mr. G. Hobday, of Uellington.'u's at present employed m removing and re-erecting the organ. It is expected that the church, whioh has been constructed of brick, will be opened early in So"l-einl'.iT. , . , ... Tho Prime Minister lias informed the Masterlon District High School Commute© that the resolution passed at the annual meeting of householders m reference to the withdrawal of the concession of free school books, has been forwarded of the Minister for Education. 1 ho resolution aoking for an amendment of the Education Act. to permit, of the disestablishment of district high schools in rural districts, with a view to providing agricultural high schools, would be given serious consideration when the Education Act was before. Parliament. Mr. J. Shackleton has resigned his nnsitioa Oft -th« Mjutattau Dutrut Hum

School Committee, ami lias been succeedccl liy Jli-. D. Threadwell. The Rev. A. T. 'J'lioi'p-'Jii nn<l Mr. .Tames Jl'Uiegor, son., lel't l'oi' Chribtchurch yesterday morning to attend the animal convention. of Iho No-Licem-e party. Jlary White, of Fcilding, formerly eoolc in tlio Empire Hotel, Palmerston, was lined <£3, anil costs, at tho Magistrates Court yesterday for keeping liquor for salo in a No-License area. Henry Etlelsten, on a similar charge, was also lined £'> and costs. A local gunsmith was lined JJI and costs for selling pea rifles to two youths urnlcr tlio ago of sixteen years. To-day will bo Ambulance Saturday in Jtasterton.