MASTERTON NOTES

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3059, 21 April 1917, Page 11

MASTERTON NOTES

: » , The Masterton Employers' Association lias decided to observe Wednesday instead of Monday as Anzac Day. A combined service will be held on "Wednesday, afternoon. In the evening the Returned Soldiers' Association will hold its annual reunion. . The managers of the Masterton Technical School have received advice from the Discharged Soldiers' Information Department that, in addition to the privilege of free technical education granted to returned soldiers, it has heen decided to grant a maximum of £1 per week,' in addition to pension, to all such soldiers who are studying for new forms of usefulness. A class is being instituted at the Masterton Technical School to teach women the art of wool-classing and wool-«orting. Five women have already enrolled. . At the annual meeting of the Masterton branch of the St. John Am- ' bulance Brigade, the report showed that a very successful year's work had heen performed. . The labels and medallions gained during the year were presented, and it was decided that members of the brigade undertake the making of bandages, etc. The managers ol' the Masterton Technical School have been advised that the sections in: the AVaipoua Reserve set apart for educational purposes, will be available for a farm school as soon as the proper authority was ready financially and otherwise" to proceed with the ■utilisation of the land.

To-morrow afternoon, at tlu Y.M.C.A., Willis Street, tlie speaker al the men's meeting at 4 p.m. will bt the Dean of Nelson (the Very Bev. 6 15. Weeks, M.A., 8.D., LL.D., who ia at present in Wellington leoturing at the university in connection with th( students' volunteer movement. His sul) ject will bo "Lost at Sea." 5 General Latini was slightly wounded t when the Italians routed the Tripolitau j Arabs at Zuara on January 15.