TELEGRAMS

Hokitika Guardian, 9 August 1922, Page 4

TELEGRAMS

BY TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSN., COPYRIGHT. EDUCATION VOTE. WELLINGTON, Aug 8. Speaking at the opening of the new infant school, Hpn C. J. Tan' commented on tiie increased cost of school buildings which was double what .it , was in 1914. He did not know why it cost more in the North Island than the south, but there was a difference I of 25 to 30 per cent. He pointed out I other departments could economise in , works but the Education Department could not, because it had to provide for an anpual increase of seven thouI sand children, which involved seventy I to eighty thousand yearly. Even m I these‘ hard times it was a mistake to cut down the Education Vote and a>- . though a small cut had to be made I in salaries recently he would be ■ sorry u> see any more. It was I not 'right to effect large economies /at I the expense of the teaching staff and 1 be was not going to.

WILTSHIRE WRECK

battered mass of debris

AUCKLAND, August 5. Members of the salvaging party at the wreck of the Wiltshire were able to board the wreck on Wednesday for the first time since the previous Thursday. For a week the wreck had been pitilessly battered for the heavy seas driven in by th> strong easterly gale, and Wednesday’s inspection confirmed the previously formed opinion that no more dry cargo would bo obtainable. The bulkheads between Nos 1 and 2 holds havu been carried away, and in the tween decks there is a mass of wreckage and cargo battered into an almost unrecognisable mass of debris. Portions of iron bulkheads can be seen twisted and torn about like so much brown paper. During the recent heavy weather thousands of pounds worth of cargo was washed up on a small stony beach about 300 yards from the wreck. Mingled in inextricable confusion can be seen wire rope, canvas, -.tweeds, sergo and other goods, rendered worthless by the tremendous battering of the breaking seas.

CHURCH CONGRESS. DUNEDIN, August 5

A meeting of the local committee appointed to help in carrying out the O’,iurch Congress at Christchurch next year was held under the presidency ot Bishop ItiehrJrds. It was reported from Christchuprch that invitations to take part in the Congress had been sent -o the Bishops of Melbourne amt \i iUo.-lvra and also to Dr .Gore. lately Bishop of Oxford, who will be on a visit to Melbourne. A meeting of church people will be hod hero shortly when the uhole matter of the Con-gre-s "ill be laid before them. SUSPICIOUS SICKNESS. WELLINGTON, August fi. T in- Health Department officials stale ‘thnit all precautionary steps have been taken in the event of an outbreak ol plague oil the steamer Pliysa. which arrived yesterday-afternoon from Napier It was found that the sickness discovered al Napier was not a ease of plague. Ihe vessel is still quarantined.