MINISTERIAL MOVEMENTS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 9, 7 January 1913, Page 8

MINISTERIAL MOVEMENTS.

RAILWAYS AND PUBLIC WORKS. (Per Press Association.) Thames, January 6. The Hon. W. H. Herries and Hon. W. Fraser arrived at the Thames this evening. Mr. Fraser inspected the Government pumping plant which is draining the low level cross-cut, subsidised by the Government. Tie also attended to other matters connected with the industry. The Ministers were entertained at an informal dinner, after which they met various deputations, recommending a railway across the Hauraki Plains and also loading the same and opening up a large area of unoccupied mining land for pastoral purposes, etc. The Ministers were to 1 leave the Thames to-morrow for Waihi, Katikati and Tanranga. THE MINISTER FOR JUSTICE. Invercargill, January G. The Hon. A. L. Hordman, Minister of Justice, arrived in Invercargill on Saturday, and visited the Bluff today. He visited the reformatory, where the system of treatment and working of the institutions was fully explained to him. He also visited Otatara to view the area it is proposed to reclaim from that direction. Before his departure for the North to-morrow morning the Minister will he waited on by a deputation from the Prisoners’ Aid Society, and another from the Southland Law Society.