THE PREMIER.
DEPUTATIONS AT NAPIER. PRESS ASSOCIATION Napier, lnsi nigbt. The Pmnier rtoeivtd JepuJuSkns today asking for grants in aid of she new Old People’s Hornu notv being pressed ut Paike Island, a obnwio or convalescent ward for ibo Nspior Hospital, tho irm-,/or to the Borough Council of a small atrip of land adjoining tho Napier utbeuacum, alterations in tbo railway servic-', and the exempliou of Soindo Island from the pro vlaiona of the Pnblio Works Aot with regard to the width of streets, and ho pro raised to give the various matters careful consideration.
In an interview with the press the Premier said the Government bad pu obased in Hawke’s Bay 14 estates under the Lands for Settlement Aof, ocmprising an area of 129,000 Bores, st a cost of d£766,433, and they had expended <£34,533 in roadiog them.
In the evening the Premier attended the prizs distributing of the Napier High Schools, where Lady Ward diawibuted the prizes. In a short speeoh Sir Joseph Ward referred to the importance of the sobools cadet movement, and also said he hoped to see esperanto taught in all the pnblio sobools of the oolony. He leaves tomorrow morning for Wellington,
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXIV, Issue 1957, 13 December 1906, Page 3
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