HOUSE-WARMING
The addition to the Dominion Farmers' Institute of a three-story block on the Featherston street side, costing some A 20,000, was celebrated with a housewarming yesterday afternoon, when the Acting-Mayor (Mr. Martin. Lnekie) declared "the new building., open. He congratulated both farmers and city on this handsome expansion of a rural investment in urban property—an investment which was of national importance, since the institute'was the homeof many annual conferences besides being the permanent home of many other activities. A large gathering in the new (extended) conference hall floor, which is specially equipped for deliberative and digestive'purposcs, applauded-the Act-ing-Mayor and other speakers—Mr. E. A. Batt, president of the Wellington Automobile Club, Mr. S. S. Dean, chairman of the New Zealand Rugby Union, and Mr. A. Leigh Hunt, managing director of Dominion Farmers' Institute, j.trt,—whose remarks are reported elsewhere.
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Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 147, 19 December 1930, Page 13
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138HOUSE-WARMING Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 147, 19 December 1930, Page 13
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