TELEGRAMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 23 December 1920, Page 3

TELEGRAMS.

BY TELEGRAPH PRESS ASSN., COPYRIGHT. Holiday traffic. AUCKLAND, Dec. 21. The population of Auckland and suburban areas is generally estimated to be very close to 150,000 now, but the influx of Christmas and New Year visitors will bring it up to many thousands more; in fact, this year’s end is going to be a record, according to the estimates of railway officials, steamboat people, the Government Tourist Bureau and all the folk who accommodate visitors either in hotels or privately. WELLINGTON, Dec. 21. The holiday-traffic promises to be heavy this year. Queues have been waiting at the central booking offices here, and sleeping berths on the' North Main Trunk route have been all taken for some days. ' The mountain huts at Mount Egmont will be full during the holidt “3. In Auckland and Rotorua it is now almost impossible to hook accommodation for the holidays. The

post and telegraph offices are very busy, the rush having started earlier than usual.

N.S.W. TEAM NOT COMING. AUCKLAND, Dec. 22. The New South Wales tennis team which was to have competed at the New Zealand Championships has cabled cancelling accommodation. ' Two singles will he played on tlus first day of the Davis Cup, the doubles on the second day, and two singles on the third day. TEACHERS’ CLASSIFICATION. WELLINGTON, Dee. 22. Under regulations recently issued, appeals by secondary school teachers against their classification, as gazetted on December 9th, -should be lodged in Wellington on January Bth. Owing, however, to a mishap in connection with.the dispatch of copies of the classification list, many teachers did not receive notification before the schools broke up for the holidays, and might therefore not be in a position to lodge an appeal in the middle of the school holidays. Under these circumstances, tlie Minister of Education announces that appeals from secondin' school teachers will be received up to .and including the 12th of February. Teachers will receive individual notifications of this extension of time on or before the date of the re-opening of tho schools in the first week of February.

A BAKERY FIRE. ' _ OAMARU, Dec. 23. At three this morning, the bakery nnu grocery store owned and occupied by A. T. tV'hite, a returned soldier, was completely destroyed by fire. The old building burned fiercely. Insurances on building £2OO and on stock £SOO.