The nest annual conference of the Wellington provincial branch of the New Zealand Farmers' Union will be held in Masterton. , . ■> ' The Wanganui Education Board has applied to the Land Board to have about 19 acres of the southern portion of Education Reserve Section .43, Block IX., Pukeokahu (245 acres) set aside for the purposes of a school site. The tender of Messrs. Fletcher Bros., I of Dunedin, has been accepted ,for bile erection of the New Zealand Farmers" Institute in Wellington. The building will .occupy the site at the corner of Featherston and Ballance streets, formerly- used as a coal depot by Messrs. Thompson Bros, and Co. Another recital by the Wellington Municipal Tramways Military Band is announced for Sunday night next, when the popular combination will be heard in a programme embraoing a variety of musical selections, including the famous overture, "Light Cavalry"; the night patrol, "No Man's Land"; and a beautiful arrangement of a grand selection from "The Bohemian Girl," to be played for the first time in New Zealand. Bandsman Hargreaves is set down for a imxophone solo, "0,- Rest in, the Lord." from "Elijah" ; Mr.-Eugen Ossipoff, the popular baritone, has selected the prologue to "Pagliacci" and an excerpt from "Oberon in Fairyland" for his solo items. The band shouid give a good account of itself in its new programme. Messrs. flarcourt and Co. advertise a list of oity_ properties in the estate of Charles Tringham. . ■... ■„■..- :,.
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Evening Post, Volume XCIII, Issue 129, 31 May 1917, Page 8
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