JOTTINGS FROM WANGANUI.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1024, 13 January 1911, Page 4

JOTTINGS FROM WANGANUI.

(By Tclesrapn.-Spccial. Correspondent.) Wanganulj January 12. Councillor G. Carson-has resigned his seat on .'-the Wang'anui Borough' Council, having discovered that, being a director of the "Chronicle" '.Company, he comes within tho disqnali-.. cation clause of the Municipal Corporations Act. It is understood that this is the only vacancy so caused. Mr.' Carson has been a member of various local bodies, almost continuously, for oyer thirty years, and his enforced retirement is ' much regretted. The Labour party has decided'to put up a candidate to contest the vacancy.

The New Zealand Alliance has booked the Wanganui Opera House for February. 12, 13,. and 14, when Mr. T. E. Taylor,, M.l\, will open the Alliance's Dominion campaign in view of the next local option poll. Mr. Taylor will afterwards address meetings in Taranaki and Manawatu. : Certain. Srnithfield residents dissatisfied with the Gonvillo Town Board recently started a\\ unsuccessful agitation to join the borough of Wanganui, and nowsonio people at Aramoho.havo been trying to induce their-fellow suburbanites to- break away from it. The discontented ones led by Mr. William Webb, the ex-champion sculler, called a meeting, which was very largely attended last evening at Aramoho to consider tho question'\of secession. Mr. Webb made a very capable speech in ' support of his case, being replied to by Mr. Mockay, Mayor of Wanganui. Resolutions criticising the ; Borough Council's administration, and favouring secession, were carried by narrow majorities, but a large number refrained from-voting, and the enthusiasm''was so limited that the agitation has every prospect of fizzling out.

Several of the Wanganui Education Board's teachers who have just completed terms as pupil teachers, evidence strong disinclination to go to the Training College, and the board has tie'*impression that the reason for the reluctance is that the teachers do not wish to bo bound for the two years which entrance to the college entails; also that they are making 'a convenience of the board, and do not intend to adopt teaching as a profession; The board decided last evening to inform four teachers that if they_are not prepared to go to tho Training College the board cannot guarantee them employment beyond the term of pupil teachership -unless they obtain certifi.catcs.