LATE LOCALS.

Hokitika Guardian, 9 December 1918, Page 3

LATE LOCALS.

Miss “ Oiss ” lleaphy met with a painful accident at Greymouth on Friday afternoon, when going to business. Opposite the State School a dog flew out at the bicycle, causing it to capsize. Miss lleaphy was thrown Tieavilv to the ground, and her right leg fractured.

The bare panels around the front of the gallery in the House of Representatives have been adorned with carved wreaths, iu rimu, each carrying a ribbon bearing the name of some notable engagement in the history of New Zealand troops in the war. The record begins with Samoa .and continues with Egypt, Gallipoli, Palestine, Somme, I.a Bnssevilie, Passchcndaele, and L-c Quesnoy. The Ulimaroa is due at Wellington t,n the 20th iiist. She has on board -16

officers and nurses and 752 men. The Ayrshire, due at Auckland on the 22nd inst., is bringing 130 officers and nurses and 803 men ; and the Tofua, due to arrive at Port Chalmers on the 22nd inst., has on board 22 officers and nurses and 428 men. In the three drafts due this month there will, therefore, arrive 117 officers and nurses and 1983 rank and iile. The names of the home-comers are not'yet available. Owing to. the epidemic many teachers have not been able to put in the required number of attendances at classes in science subjects to entitle them to sit for the written examinations in these subjects at the forthcoming examinations ,ahd it was decided at Friday s meeting of the Canterbury Education Board to write to the Department asking that in the exceptional circumstances pupil teachers, probationers, and other teachers bd allowed to sit the examinations, although the regulations had not been complied with in the direction mentioned.

Consumers are reminded that gaa accounts for November must be paid tomorrow to secure discount.

f Reporting to the Canterbury Education Board on Friday, the Appointments Committee stated that in consequence of the epidemic it had carefully considered the matter of the re-opening of schools, and recommended the Board to arrange for schools to re-assent bio on January 27th, the customary date. In connoxtion with this mutter it was pointed out that a largo number of the teachers wore now, or had been, engaged on work in connexion with the epidemic; that many parents would probably he absent during the greater part of January, and that in any case if the schools should re-open before the usual date, a full atteudanco could hardly be expected. The recommonda- ! Ron was adopted.