MASTERTON NOTES

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 123, 11 February 1918, Page 9

MASTERTON NOTES

Tho first meeting of the business trustees appointed in connection with the National Efficiency Board held in Masterton on Friday evening. Mr. R. Brown was elected chairman, The Masterton Trust Lands Trust has at present a credit balance of £170 17s. sd. Tho uiembors of tho Masterton Lady Liverpool Committeo are at present busily engaged wrapping parcels for ■use in connection with the sunrise packet crusade. Fifty-six new pupils from various parts of tho district have been onrolled in the secondary classes of tho Masterton District High School. Mr. Andrew Collins, secretary of the . Bakers' Union, who was in Masterton a day or two ego, informed a Press representative that the Master Bakers' Union had decided to grant a bonus of 10s. per week over the minimum rate of wages for the period of the war and for six months thereafter. There are. at present 933 pupils in the schools under the jurisdiction of the Masterton District High School. Although several workers' homes have been erected in Masterton during the past year there is still an unsatisfied demand for houses, and it is thought that at least fifty additional homes would be taken up if they were made available. At a meeting of the Masterton District High School Committee, a resolution was carried congratulating the headmaster and staff upon the splondid results achioved in the examinations. A handsome silver challenge rose bowl, valued at fifty guineas, lias been presented to tho Aberdeen Angus Society by Mr. Frank Armstrong', of A'kitio. The trophy is at present on exhibition in a jewellery establishment in Masterton. A number of residents of Masterton, male and female, were charged in the Magistrate's Court with being on the premises of the Tailera Hotel during prohibited hours. The defence was that the names of the defendants were on the lodgers' book of tho hotel, and that in point of fact they remained at the hotel for the whole of the night. After hearing lengthy evidence the Magistrate dismissed the information.