MASTERTON NOTES.
; -.r, vy:,„" y. 7; (US' TELEtRAnt—rBESS "ASSCOIATIOS.J I ■ > iVtastcrton, January IS. ■ A banquet on. a: largo, scale is : to ,be tendered. shortly at Hukanui to Mn A.. W. •HoEg, Minister, for Labour and Customs, . I'lic weather is ■ wintry to-day. . Cold showers fell during the forenoon, and the weather- for the tinie of- year is -Tory.- unseasonable. _ . . ', The new pipe-organ imported for Knox (hutch) Masterton, has arrived in .cases at the railway station, and will be put into position in the church at onco .by. Mr. Pearce, organ builder, of Christohurch... Theorgan will take about three weeks to build, and a recital will take place on February 4. ;Weekly, parades of the. Masterton Rifle Volunteers liave beon resumed, and the usual : monthly staff.'; instructional parado took • place this evening.. : .• ■ . . t It is, stated that the- Hautotara .• Estate,.. Maryborough, will ohango hands shortly, j Lack of'employment,has been -keenly felt iii Masterton for weeks pasf. ;■ Various • have beon dispensing with hands, and during the past: few :days a Btill further batch of men have been turned adrift. A severo winter, as. far. as Masterton .is. concerned,. is predictedi-. A' largo number_ of residents are. leaving. for. other districts in search• of employment/. '
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Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 407, 16 January 1909, Page 5
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