TELEGRAMS

Horowhenua Chronicle, 7 January 1914, Page 3

TELEGRAMS

[per press association.] ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH —COPYRIGHT A HEAVY FINE. Marion, This Day. Before the Justices, John McConnell, a young man of 20, with several previous convictions against him, was charged with assaulting Mr and Mrs Paget Jones, of the Ben Nevis Hotel, at Turakina, on Tuesday night, with clenched fists. He pleaded guilty on the first charge and not guilty on the second. The charge of having assaulted Mrs Paget Jones was dismissed.. On the charge of having assaulted Mr Jones he was fined <£10, in default 14 days' imprisonment. Fourteen days was allowed iu which to pay the fine. ED U CATION CON (?RESS. Auckland, This Day. The Education Congress to-day resumed discussion on the proposes for improvements brought forward yesterday. The clause relating to the establishment of a central council assisted by the local bodies was amended by the addition, preferably of four Education Boards and local committees. Such committees to have no voice in the appointment of teachers. Discussing the clause providing for a central inspectorate, Mr Duggan, jof Hawke's Bay, said it was the only way for teachers to become members of the Civil Service, The trouble at present was that the teacher had to serve more than one master.