WAIRARAPA
Very little interest hns been taken in "clean up" week in Masterton, and the borough officials are disappointed at the response to their appeal. ' . There arc at nresent fifty patients in the Masterton Hospital, ten of whom are in the isolation wards. No influenza eases are under treatment. There are ten soldier patients in the institution. At a meeti up; of the Masterton branch of the Welfare league on Monday next, a delegate will be appointed to attend the Wellington conference. At a preliminary meeting held in Masterton un Friday evening it was decided to form a branch of the Workers' Educational Association. \ The gold medal for two-tooth Southdowns has been awarded by the Sheepbreeders' Association to the Masterton and Wairarapa A. and P. Associations for the ensuing year. . " The dealii occurred, in Masterton on Thursday of Mr. ..Tames Briden, at the age of SO years. The deceased came to New Zealand many years ago, and_ settled at Napier, where he was one of the founders of the Working Men's Club. The Wairarapa Caledonian Society held ltfT'amnnl ingleside on Thursday, evening. Advantage was taken of the'occasion to present Mr. A. .T. Giddings, who is about to leave for England, with a travelling-rug. Lieutenant C. T. Gillespie, M.C., 'of Mnsterton. has received notice of his appointment as adjutant to the Wellington Field Artillery Brigade. Re will have" his headquarters at Palmerston North.
The A\'airarapa Patriotic Association, Defence Department, and Health Department 'subscribed about ,£12,000 between them for the erection of a military win;; at the Masterton Hospital for the accommodation of wounded eoldiers. The whig is expected to be completed by October next, when it is not anticipated that any soldiers will require treatment.
The school committees in tlio South Wairarapa liavo been invited _ to assemble in the Greytown District High School on Tuesday next at 8 p.m. for the purpose of forming a school committees! association.
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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 229, 21 June 1919, Page 10
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