HUTT AND PETONE NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1835, 22 August 1913, Page 3

HUTT AND PETONE NEWS.

(From Our Special Correspondent.) ' 4 — At a meeting of the I'etono Distilct High School Committee last night a resolution urging the Wellington Education Board to approach the Government, asking for a universal set of free books, stationery, and requisites for the use ot pupils attending tho infant, primary, and secondary departments of the State schools of the Dominion was carried. A case of alleged "ragging'? was reported by a member. 1 It appeared that a lad had been badly treated by his class, arriving home with his clothes torn, and being severely mauled and even kicked 'while others had held him down. Two boys, it appeared, for. playing marbles in school hours, were "handed over" to the class to bo dealt with, with the result stated. It is stated that other cases of the kind have occurred, and the committee intend making searching inquiries into the matOn Wednesday night, at Lower Hutt, Mr. W. Bell Bridger, late of Messrs. Cudby, Bridger, and Co., was tendered a farewell social at the Catholic Schoolroom. Mrs. Peterkin (on behalf of the choir) asked the gnest to accept a handsome umbrella. Mr. T. A. Peterkin, on behalf of several business people, presented Jlr. Bridger with a leather bag, dress-ing-case, and a set of hair brushes. Mr. Bridger has been appointed manager of the hardware department of the Wairarapa Farmers' Co-operative at Pahiatua. On the occasion of severing his connection with tho Siiverstream Brick and Tile Company,'on account of illness, Jlr. Jsinics Harrop (who has been connected with the firm since its inception) was prcsielilted on Wednesday evening last by tho employees with a handsome timepiece, suitably inscribed, as a mark of esteem.