NEWS AND NOTES.

Hokitika Guardian, 19 July 1917, Page 4

NEWS AND NOTES.

Mr Arthur ;Rosser is well known in the .Arbitration Court as a-miner; ,of appropriate anecdote ftiKl-huinor-j ous Scriptural allusions says the, Auckland Star ’’■). At‘the early-. Closing-meeting in live Town ’Hall: on Monday night lie .fairly brought; .the house down with a little story' Which he produced as seconder of a' .motion ;for .the appointment of a .deputation do .convey -a .previous resolution.of -the meeting ito Wellington. The-story was -that of a school teacher who wished to impress upon a little .girl .the value of, faith, hope, charity and resolution. To that end she gave the child dour buttons, each named after one of the four virtues, with instructions to bring them back :in a week and repeat their names. The ‘child, brought back only three .buttons, ■and, in answer ( to -a yptestiou, replied*: “I’ve got faith, And charity, hut 'mother’s laken resolution and sewn it -on father’s, trousers.” “We want to take this: resolution down to Wellington,” declared Mr Rosser, “ and sew iton to Mr Massey’s.trousers. It will • .give him the support The ,-rest of [the -question was drowned in roars -ot ‘laughter.

“We are now nearing the close of the third year of .this calamitous Avar,” says the .annual report,of -the Wellington kranch of the New Zealand Educational -Institute, and it is interesting -to note the. very large number of teachers who have joined the. colours'to uphold, the honour of .our Empire. In this •education district no fewer than 1 33A per cent of the male teachers' have .been accepted ,fo,r military ■service abroad. It now becomes/ a matter for ‘serious consideration whether tne teaching profession should continue to be depleted, for, according to figures quoted by Captain Walker, the military representative .before the First Wellington Military Board, but of 2,078 teachers eligible -for military service, 525 have enlisted, and only twelve of the men in . the First Division have not .enlisted.

A charge ,of committing a breach of the Military Service Act by changing his name after November, 1915, was preferred against Peter Currie in the Auckland Police Court on Friday, before Mr F. V, Frazer, S.M. He was also charged with obtaining £lO xos at Greymouth, by falsely representing he -was part owner of the racehorses Kina and Nancyform, and that he failed to provide for the maintenance ol an illegitimate child at Dunedin, Sub-Inspector Broberg said that in April, 19x5, accused was wanted by the police, and he changed hia name to Sydney W. Cress, -in order to avoid the war- ; rants being executed. When theMilitary Service Act came into. force, he registered under the assumed name. He was finally located in Onejiunga, where he had resided for some 12 months. A fine of £lO was imposed for the breach of the Military Regulations, The charge of false pretences was dismissed, the police explaining that a$ one of the principal witnesses had left the Dominion they could hof proceed with the charge. The "maintenance charge was adjourned.