THE ENGLISH PIERROTS

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1150, 10 June 1911, Page 3

THE ENGLISH PIERROTS

\ largo number of visitors to the Exhibition dropped into tho Corwwtio l Theatre last evening and were lv entertained by that bng.it and tile company of artists, the d rots, who have so strongly es.abl shed themselves in the favours of the puU c since the opening of the Exhibition. Ihe continuous picture show, conducted under Z. auspices the Pierrots during: the afternoon, also received its due than, of patronage. TO-DAY'S EVENTS. This afternoon a laughing gallery will be installed at Hie up tho main stairway to the Stadiuu. lisso Bill, a typical Wild, A\e.-t ex poncnt of the larW, will give an exhibition of his prowess at the Stadium tIS evening. Another item of interest iWs evening will to the Boy Scout disevening lias been fixed far MrHarrison's gymnasium ca ™P, ll . r p special announcement m connection tlier with appears in another column. TRAINS FOR SCHOOL CHILDREN. Yesterday the Exhibition Commissioners waited upon the Minister for Education (the Hon. G. Fowlds) with a request that anv deficit on the running ot special trains carrying school children to the Exhibition should be made mod b> the Education Department. Mr. J. P. Luke, M.P., introduced the speakers. , Mr. T. Ballinger referred to the desire of the Exhibition authorities to get tho children to tho display, for its educational qualities. Ho also recalled that the Wellington Industrial Association was the onlv body of its kind to contribute to technical education. ...... The Minister agreed that the Exhibition would bo ot educational advantage, and for that reason ho hoped that tho attendance of children would be large. He was sorry, for that reason, that he could not divert any of the Department's revenuo to the purpose desired. He was aniious to do a good many. things yet for education. He was anxious to have medical inspection of school children. He referred to other institutions of educational importance, especially the Palmerston North show, which catered particularly for school exhibits. If he controlled an unlimited purse ho would be glad to help tho sch:o~l children, but the claims on the vote were so large that he was afraid he could not give any encouragement to the proposition.