OVERSEAS DELEGATION.

Wairarapa Age, 24 September 1923, Page 5

OVERSEAS DELEGATION.

IN MASTERTON TO-DAY. Three members of the British Overseas Delegation, Sir William Windham, General Wauehope, and Miss Pott, arrived in Masterton at 6 p.m. yesterday, accompanied by Mr H. D. Thomson, Under-Secretary for Immigration, and put up at the Midland Hotel. At Featherston they were met and entertained at lunch by Mr W, Barton, and were taken a motor drive through part of the Lower Valley. They say that they are interested solely in land settlement. Mr Wignall, the Labour M.P., who was addressing a meeting in Wellington last night, will come up with the Under-Secretary for Internal Affairs (Mr J. Hislop) this morning. The part}' will set out this morning -at 9 o’clock from the hotel and be shown a number of local institutions, such as the fish hatcheries, the High School, etc., and then proceed out towards Weraiti to get a view of the district. At 11.30 a.m. a meeting, at which they will be present, will be held at the Borough Council Chambers. After lunch the members of the Delegation wftl leave for Palmerston North, making a stop at Eketahuna en route. Mr W. B. Matheson, Mr A. H. Herbert and Mr Simpson, Mayor of Eketahuna, will come down to Masterton to conduct the delegates through their district.

Sir William Windham, of the British Ministry of Labour, is a South African ami served in the public service of Zululand, Natal and Transvaal, being secretary formative affairs and a member of the Transvaal Legislative Council from 1901-10. He has served on labour commissions to get mechanics from Canada and France for munition making. Mr Wignall. is national organiser of the dock ami wharf workers, and has been for 30 years a Trades Union organiser. General Wauehope, formerly, of the Black Watch, was on the staff of General Wauehope, who was killed at Magersfontein, in the South African war.