MINISTERIAL VISIT TO MASTERTON

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10627, 4 May 1912, Page 5

MINISTERIAL VISIT TO MASTERTON

A TOUR OF INSPECTION.

Ycistrrday the Hons. J. A. ■Hainan ■and To .Ranigihirfia were motored to .'various pliaccs-.of' interest in the Borough cf Masterton and the surrounding district. , In the forenWon the Ministers, accompanied by His Wc<r■sliijp the Mayor (Mr J. M. Oo'radine), ;M'r G ; . Sykes, member for the di&-•'■j'k-t, Mr El G'. Eton, chairman of the Charitable Aid Board, and Drs. Hos<king, Cowie amd .(Jcok, visited tflio <Mlasiterton Ifctspitai, and were shown'■aver the whole b-tfikling. Both Miaiiis.ter.s expressed themselves as greatly (pleased with the 'institution, which they considered rfoTOpa'fed- .very. :f »v----oiniahly with any hospital in the Dominion. The party then, rco'tored tlrrough to Longbush, and visited the different schools em route. The Gladistonc School was vieited, and being tJhe chief -scihwl in tliat district, domelittle time was spent in inspecting the school and grounds. The school' garden", which fnr several yenrs has fiaken •first prize for aciiooi gardens in the WdlllTigiton' Educ'nltrVm district, came •in- for very great praise from the Minister for Education, who expressed himself as greaitly iplea,sed to visit g-ucli a well-kept sohfool. He 'stated that •there was rtothing in- his district in *he South, Island that came anywhere near <tho garden and. grounds of the Gladstone Sribcol, w'birth afforded a •splendid example of wliafc can bo done by rural classes in- State gcliools. Tho paitty thut adjourned to Mr J. •Strang's, "Glenskle," • .where lunch was enjoyed, and afterwards proceed'cd to Lion.gbusb, whr-re' the local school v/a-s visited.

Mr Hanan expressed himself as gurI'rted at tfli;2 magW'Jieenit country which they had .passed through, slating that -he had j:o idea tho country in, the Wairarapa was so rich . and .productive, and he quite agreed -with reports which stated the Wairarapa to be a district of rtassibili.tics.

I The parity 'hred the misfortune to have u break-down in. .their car. which ipj-evciiitftl .ii v.isit ihoimp; made to the •Wait; pa wa freezing works-. A fresh (car had to be -wired for from lVrastcir±OM, which did Hot leave the party 1 >a,ny 'time a.t their disposal. The 1 Qliiiisbers Mi by the afternoon train ! .for 1 .Wellington, and before leaving informed M rG. B. Syke?, 'M.P., tliaffc their visit /to was one c.f the imosti pl«i«ui.t in r.heir experience. I and 'he hoped thrft it 'would be one of •many to he made in the* .future.