THE PREMIER.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8310, 13 December 1906, Page 5

THE PREMIER.

( VISIT 10 NAPIER. REQUIREMENTS OF THE DISTRICT. TEACHING OF ESPERANTO IN SCHOOLS ADVOCATED BY SIR JOSEPH.

By Telegraph—Press Association. NAPIER, Deo. 12. The Premier reoeived deputations, to-day, asking for grants in aid of the new Old People's Home now being ereoted at Parke Island, a chronic convalescent ward for the Napier Hospital, the transfer to the Borough Council of a small atrip of land adjoining the Napier athenaeum, alteration in the railway servioe, and the exemption of Soinde Island from the provisions of the Publio Works Act with regard to the width of streets. The Premier promised to give the various matters careful consideration. In an interview with the Press, the Premier said that the Government had purchased in Hawke's Bay 14 estates under the Lands for Settlement Act, comprising an area of 129,000 acres, at a cost of £766,433, and tbey have expended £34,533. in roading them. ' In the evening he attended the prize distribution of the Napier High Schools, where Lady Ward distributed the prizes. In a short speech Sir Joseph referred to the importance of the schooja cadet movement, and also said, he hoped to see Esperanto (a >new language) taught m all the publio schools of the colony. > He will leave 1 ' to-morrow morning for Wellington,

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