ANNIVERSARY OF MASTERTON.
ITS FIFTY-SEVENTH BIRTHDAY.
lb-morrow—May 21st—will be ths fifty-seventh anniversary of the arrival an * Masterton of the first band of bona fide settlers. This consisted of four p?r.,ons, -who took a fortnight to do the journey from Wellington to Master ton wath a mob of oattlle. Wilien tihey , arrived here there was not -a solitary habitation save a Maori hut. The only two siirvirars of the pioneers are Mr David Dixon and Mrs W. Adams. Aimong the early settlers who ©limbed the jßimutaka s, faced the unbridged rivers, and braved itlhie 'bush were the late Mes&rs W. H. Donald, A. W. Renall, C. Dixon, W. Adams, J. Bent Hey, J. Masters., J. V. Smith, J. Wrigley, R. D. Dagg, R. Hare, Jas. Ru&sell, Chamberlain Brothers* and G. W. Woodroofe. The late Mr Masters, after whom the town was named, died in 1874 at the age of seventy-three years. The Small Farms Association, which laid out the .town and made the munificent educational endowment now held in Trust by the Mastejtoii Trust Landis Trustees, were Messrs Allien, Carter, Jackson, Masters and Renall. The Master-ton Borough was formed in 1877, and the railway line to the town was opened; in 1880.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10243, 20 May 1911, Page 5
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201ANNIVERSARY OF MASTERTON. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10243, 20 May 1911, Page 5
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