COMMUNITY OF INTEREST

Wairarapa Times-Age, 17 April 1940, Page 4

COMMUNITY OF INTEREST

MASTERTON AND PAHIATUA. BOROUGHS WITH SOMETHING IN COMMON. A desire for community of interest between Pahiatua and Masterton is expressed in a letter received from the Mayor of Pahiatua. read at last night’s meeting of the Masterton Borough Council. “While regretting your inability to attend our Centennial celebrations last week,” wrote Mr. S. K. Siddells, Mayor, of Pahiatua, to the Mayor of Masterton, Mr. T. Jordan, under date April 9, “nevertheless we appreciate your message of congratulations and the presence of your deputy in the Town Clerk and Mrs. O’Hara Smith. Further, my council is deeply appreciative of the co-operation of your council in. the suitable decoration of our town ’with flags and electric light strings so kindly lent by your borough. I desire to convey to you and your council our grateful thanks because the night effects were very considerably enhanced through your generosity. I want, too, to pay a special tribute to one of your councillors, Mr. H. Gardner, who last year designed our Centennial Park, which was opened by his Excellency the Governor-General, Viscount Galway, last Friday. The future will pro\)e that Mr. Gardner’s design, is not only effective but decidedly useful. We feel, therefore, that our two boroughs have something in common and look forward to a development of common interest and progress.” The council decided to write to Mr. Siddells expressing its thanks for his letter and appreciation of the sentiments expressed.