NEW ZEALAND NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1978, 7 February 1914, Page 3

NEW ZEALAND NEWS.

fflsr Telejrraßa.'-.Prcisa Association.! _ . WEIGHT OF SCHOOL WORK. HawSra, February 6. A meeting of a hundred teachers at> tending the physical training camp at Hawera unanimously resolved to express thorough appreciation of tho impossibility of doing justice to this in> portant branch of education without seme lightening of tho work required by the standard syllabus on the intellectual side. A copy of tho '.esolution is to be sent to tho Inspectors' Conference in Wellington. , AUCKLAND CITY LOAN, \ Auckland, February 6. At last night's meeting of the City Council the Mayor stated; that the City Council . electrical loan of £225,000 had all been issued in London at 4j per cent, at a rate that would yield £1)6 15s. per cent* in Auckland, The- actual cost of tho loan was 4$ per cent. He had reeeived information from; London that-the. market was not quite so good this week as it was last week. FIRE PR (CADES' COMPETITIONS. Auckland, February 6. The fire .brigades' competitions . commenced this afternoon., when, brigades wero present from all parts of the Island and from Dunedin. The results were as follow: —Two-men coupling South,'!; Pctonc Railway, 2; Grey Lynn, a; Dannevirko,.4. Disabled hose event—Thames, 1; Daimevirke, 2; Dunedin South, 3; Dev'oiipoft, 4. Hawora, Napier, and Taumarunui were among other brigades which took part. ; FINES THAT ARE FUTILE. Auckland, February 6. Charged with being a bookmaker and with making a bet- -on tho Taknpuna racecourse, Williani Aiclson Gksver was ,to-day lined £25. The Magistrate remarked that tho minimum . penalty of SSo did not seem to stop tho trade of small' bookriiakers, and that some of the' bigger operators seemed to escapft altogether; ' MORE GELIGNITE. Chrlstollurchj February 6. A plug of gelignite'was found under tho' bridge over tho Avon at Goiombo Street, in the heart of the city. No explanation has been discovered. The gelignite was found floating in the river by a boy. MILITARY SPIRIT. Dunedin, February 6. At a meeting in the Garrison Hall to-nightjt was decided to form a branch of the National Reserve Force. A large comihit.tee of ex-volunteers nas appointed to farther tho object.