Twenty-on© Japanese were passengers by the Maitaa—which arrived at Wellington on Thursday—'from San Francisco to Makatea Island, near Tahiti. There are already 500 or 600 Japanese on the island, and batches continue to be, seni 'there y&guh larly from Japan. The men are employed by the French Phosphates iOompany, which has works established on the island. •'■ '
"|A Timaru message states that the High School Board has accepted tenders for the erection of a new boys' . school, with special facilities for teaching agriculture. The total cost is about £3500. The boys have already started some demonstration and experimental plots. The new school will be at the west aide of the town. The rector's boarding-house is already in use. Our Alexandra correspondent says the lo?al Settlement' League has arranged to meet the members of the Otago Land Board at Alexandra to-morrow regarding the Galloway Flat and Moutere, subdivisions. The league is asking for full .particulars regarding the proposed exchange of 600 acres of freehold land on Moutere for leasehold country, and the Minister of I>ands has been communicated with, on this •' - ~ ',. -, ,;.-- f,y- : r " " '.'". ■ ■■ ■''*•''■.''•' v'ui''*-. - '•> .'
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Otago Witness, Issue 3005, 18 October 1911, Page 51
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