YESTERDAY'S FUNCTION.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10626, 3 May 1912, Page 4

YESTERDAY'S FUNCTION.

The '.'Masterton .School Committee, and the headmaster of (the* District.' High ■Sclibbl,,>r'e. to, upon the'-happy':ocnsuinmatton.- of their efr .forts to the sdbenie of'local educaitdoii into.ist'ili greater" Vpruminence. Masterton has reason to feel proud •of its educational'iii.stJtutions, and of itlhose are cont'rc'LVLiig their desibinies. ' In. Mr W. H. Jackson the drotricit possesses an educationist whose enthiueiaisim snows no boitnds, and -whose demands wiW not permit of refusal. He has been ably supported ill % '?.£:'t«tfiovn for an Hall fey ttoa Ghairmia.ii of. the fecliool Cbmiii'jtitee (Mr R- Broww), and by the 'Cbm-mittee as-a whole. The-.history oif the nnovement whidi led up to the cerencaiy of yesterday fe one [ would bear investigation by the most |is''kiill>ed diplomat, it certainly re'dounda to tho credit of Mr Jackson. 'The 'speeehess made yctsterda'y (witli one- littfo execpt'fon wlidch need not ibe'enijAasised) were in- excellent. taste, though bordering, perhaps, on the ikleafctic.. The Hon. J. A. HanLn delivered himself of quite a maeterj iry jpciibpatbion; wMo the Hon. Teßa.ll- - .Showed ht-ißiseif iwsseseed of ' bll tOio poetry vMoh to the attribute i of .a cultured Native.