EDUCATION BOUNDARIES

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2628, 25 November 1915, Page 6

EDUCATION BOUNDARIES

EFFECT ON WANGANUI DISTRICT;

Br Telegranh.-Prt.sß Association. : _ Feildlng,'November 24. Contrary to statements circulated as te the effect .on the Wanganui Education District of the alteration of education districts, the chairman points out that the board loses twenty-five schools, and over two thousand pupils, in addition te almost the whole, area in- which; agricultural instruction'is being successfully carried on. The majority of members of the board have expressed tha intention of retiring from education administration as a protest against the extraordinary action of the council, and the probability is that the board will resign as a- whole. : AUCKLAND SATISFIED. Auckland, November 24. The Auokland Education Board passeda_ resolution expressing great satisfaction with tie work • accomplished by, the Council of Education in fixing fh» Education Districts of the Dominion. The ohairman said the work of tha council showed that all the brains of New Zealand were not in the House of Representatives. ' >

"We have lost and are losing in this | war the flower of our youth, and I ques-' tion whethor the community is reahsintj that fact," Sftid the Rev. R. E. Davies, of Dunedin, at a service of intercession held on Saturday evening. "From the standpoint.of the future of the nation, the position is disastrous. I was in the Old Country when the war commenced, and I noticed that the response which; came' right from the heart of the nation was the response di the best.Thera was battalion after battalion of young university men,'the very flower of the life of the nation. There never has been an army before such as Kitchener's Rrmy because of its character. It baa taken the very heart out of the nation."

• The "white; feather" has been in evidence in Dunedin. This time it has taken an'unusual form. A youth received through the post a white feather, and the name of a young woman waa enclosed as the sender. The mother •of the youth, seeing that her 'son is only 19 years of age, was much annoyed, and wrote a sovere letter to the person whom she naturally supposed to be the sender. This younjr, lady was also annoyed, for she states that she was not responsible, either directly or indirectly, for sending the feather to the youth referred to, and that her name had been used without her consent or l-nowledge. The gardener employed on a homestead situated not a hundred miles from Arrow, tolls a good story against himself. ■ In a!n effort to savo his employer's, {iiiit, from the depredations of small birds, he tried an experiment. He shot a wild cat, and after _stuffing the skin,with.straw, he placed it in a conspicuous position amidst the- branohes of. a large cherry tree. For two days the birds carefully avoided the tree, but on the third morning tho gardener saw at a glanco that his "fake" had been exposed by some feathered Sherlock Holmes. The birds were hard at work on . the cherries, while one blackbird, apparently more audacious than its fellows, was perched on tin head of the oat, and was singing awaj right merrily. "