EDUCATION BOARD ELECTION

Dominion, Volume 20, Issue 52, 25 November 1926, Page 5

EDUCATION BOARD ELECTION

Voting papers for the election of a member of the Wellington Education Board to fill the vacancy caused by the death of the late Mr- F. Piram, are returnable until 5 p.m. on December o at the board's office. The candidates are Charles Henry William Nicholls and Joseph Isaac Goldsmith.

The price of laud in North Otago today compares favourably with the prices ruling in most parts of the Dominion (remarks an exchange). Although inflation has taken place in some instances in recent years the prices generally allow of a fair margin of profit being made in normal seasons. It is interesting to recalCthat up to December. 1863,' rural land in Otago was sold at 10s. per acre cash, coupled with the condition that the purchaser would, within a period of four years, expend £2 per acre upon it in cultivation and improvement, the perioral 1->bour n' the purchaser and his family being calcu lated as a portion of th - £2 In lecember, 1803, a new land Act was passed tor Otago, by which t’ e price of rural land was raised to 20s per acre. Manv of the original large holdings in North Otago, which hnvt- since been acquired by the Government for closer settlement, were purchased at 10s. per acre.

An extraordinary incident took place at Opotiki recently (reports an exchange). Two little boys were talking to one another in the street when a horse came up behind them. It grasped one of the bnvs in its teeth, shook him, and then dropped him to the ground. Although the boy was wearing several thicknesses of clothing, the horse’s teeth caused abrasions, the marks of the teeth on the skin being plainly visible. ■