NEW ZEALAND NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1244, 28 September 1911, Page 6

NEW ZEALAND NEWS.

Illy Tcleeraph-Prese Association.! « TO BE DONE HANDSOMELY. TRADES COUNCIL EXHIBITION. Chrislchurch, September 27. Preparations for ibo Cantorburv Trades and Labour Council's Industrial Exhibition, winch is to lie opened in a month's time, arc in n forward condition. Valuable assistance has been rendered to the executive by the Industrial Association and Lmployei-s' Association, and the project promises to bo very successful. All the space has been allotted, and the exhibits will be representative of the industries of Canterbury. In addition tho Government exhibit, it. is stated, will be a very fine one. lenders will bo called shortly* for a temporary building to bo used as a concert hall. The Advertising Committee is P r «{>»«ng a series of circulars dealing with the respective local industries, an 3 , snowuig that if people made a practice of purchasing locally-manufactured goods thepopulation of tho city would increase in a, ten- years to 150,000. , Jhe encouragement of local industries is tho mam object of the exhibition. 'Many competitions will bo provided, as well as entertainments, and the last-mentioned wenl-K- I'f d 6 th ? I * Cl F, ,lin '>'', Ulr<>o nfokfe fiW b ? s p. e *'< ll J'-takcn kiiicmatograph hlms oflocal industries and of the -scenery of Canterbury. In order that school S f th <* exhibition they will bo admitted free on certain days. I-unds for,the preliminary expenses conth ° e?hibition h "e '*en ™roK £ Hie umoiis affiliated to the teo wHlta*'^I*'1 *' tL ° Fi,,a " c(! Cm ™*- remi , LV" th ,° hapPs ' ' ,ositl ' oll of >'"* funds '? al - C °,- a f^ cial -W^ l for " fe H PresGllt . indications point to the exhibition opening free from liabilities

MODEL FARM. A TARANAKI SUGGESTION. Tho t n Ne " pl >' mou t' l . September 2G. the following report from Mr. F. J Heatlev, technical organiser to the boarcl TW l° p r, at *?-»feht's meeting of the Taranaki Education. Board:-"\fith regard to agriculture, taken up in prima™ preliminary to a rurTS PlvmoJfr"\ Sch ° ols , at StratfOTd »*rfS i - '} mouth, it may be worth while to im into the matter of rural or scholarships, where one of thf suS for examination should be agriculture age, who had nut in a years' Ma ,n m ?jh?' ( **t ions ° f »« sctiools, might,, under a practical nsricnlunst (who should also be competent „ teaching) receive instructions In finon a sufficient scale to be of u«wl en* they go back to the land. The brigl ter of the students might, after two or tl ren years on a model farm, go to Lincote fe s^r V *W Valtf/T in" Ui Tt i ■ r ' Hcatle .v is to submit detail, of his proposed farm school.

DUNEDIN COMPETITIONS. Ti,» wi, • Dunod l i ,n. September 27. iuq following are tho results of tha prmcipal events at tho Competition • So? <l°n4h» l n ] to^: -Cl>ampion «p * i r I? o< * an - abridged (Byron), and Break, Break, Break" (Tennyson)F?orOTce Pacey (Dunediu), 82 points! • Jl£s nn ik T qi P umhM (Dunedin), 78 points, 3. Shakespearean d alcguo "Bas same's ,Choice of tho Caskets": Miss L m Ml ? r ai Ba,n » ml Mr. F. Brisbane ffi u S'. a » (! Mr. Devereau, Dun d ™ Mi^TTn 5 ' n qUal, m Mu ,? ical monologue m s Uaa Owou (Dunedin), 1 CG points. 1i' piL C '" rchlll Puiedin), GO points 'L i an c° a £ol °.' jmitcurs under 18: Doris MintT'o 86 *?r mts | I; , Ma '7 Johnson H points, 2. Vocal solo, with pianoforte ( hivcrcargill), 8, points, 1; A. T. Russell Dunedyn, 86 points; 2; Marjorie Lemon Viss'B R VtFW- • F u .Miss IS. 11. Stuart, 90 points, 1; May Bain S3 points, 2; K. Gillespie (Dan ncVirke §1 r"'^', 3 -r„^ iano so ' 0: Jul o Jacob;

FISH PONDS PROJECT. Palmerston, September 27. At a largely-attended meeting of the Acclimatisation Society and anglers tonight, it was decided to establish holdtug ponds, capable of turning out 30,000 yearlings annually, in t!i« Esplanade Reserve. Experiments conducted with town water m the fountain in the Basin Square have resulted in remarkable success in turning out yearling rainbow trout during the past three years. If is now proSwi d '? f s nbl ll h hMin " P° nds 12 « by 120 ft., fed by the water supply, and to urn out 30 000 rainbow yearlings annuals nto thei Manawatu, Mangatainoka, MaKiiri, Akatarawa, and other district Is™J\ " w?. stated that streams in this district, winch have now brown rout would if fully stocked with rain bow trout form the finest fly-fishing streams m the world. S AUCKLAND BOARD OF EDUCATION. ~., Auckland, September 27. tinn iwTm"* ° f th ? Aue W«nd Education Board tins morning it was decided on the motion of Mr. S. C. Banks of Matamata, "that in districts where hero mi D . e , partrocn , t t0 make a grant. suffiniakc the usua grant of about ,£250 for the erection of a school, the board a°k tho Department to make a grant 'suffi ciont for the erection of a building abou 15 feet square, such building to be constructed so that when the population i - creases and a large building is required t can bo used as the school porch.'' NO SETTLEMENT. Tn,„ n 9. hr ; i . stch " rch . September 27. .The Conciliation Council further considered the dispute between the Chrfct tM 1 . L ™ m ™? Employees' Union " n 1 the Cliristchureh Tramway Boanl to-day Iho proceedings were not open to tlio press. The Comm ssioncr (Mr T R Ws) states that tho partici i ailed, to come to an agreement the dfe