MASTERTON.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1981, 11 February 1914, Page 11

MASTERTON.

Tho Hon. Jamos Allen, Minister of Kducatiou, paid ji visit to the rarraug High Schools in tins district yesterday. He ij;as accompanied by Sir "Walter Buchanan, M.P., and Mr. G. R. Svkcs, M.l*. : 'J'ho Masterton Fire Brigade will ho represented by a team of six at tho. .Hastings competitions at Faster. At a .meeting yesterday of' the Finance Committeo tif the. Wairarapa Hospital and Charitable Aid Board, ao; counts amounting to £332 2s. Ild. wefii passed for payment. At a meeting of the Central Committee accounts amounting to £307 Ss. ll'kl. were passed for payment. The committee passed a vote of thanks to the Masteyton Picture and Entertainment Company icrr a cheque in aid of its .funds. Mr. Phil 'M'Barroiij who has been in tlie employ of tho New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company for the past seven, years, lias been trans- - ferred to a position' with tho Company at Stratford, for which place- .■ ho left yesterday. In a triangular rifle match between the .Manricevillp, Alfredton, and'Tara-' rua ,Club 3, tho former • winnins; by -3S points, Rifleman R. k. Wilton, of Mauricovillo, made a possible at 300 yards, and finished up with tho good score of ■ { JB., Experiments made during tho last i year or two have shown that lucenio 1 can bo successfully cultivated in the ] Wairarapa. • Several healthy plots are 1 now to be seen in the district. 1 ... , .