NEWS BY MAIL.

Hokitika Guardian, 15 April 1924, Page 4

NEWS BY MAIL.

SPIRIT OF ANTAGONISM

DEPLORED JSY TEACHERS.

Letters embodying tbe following motions, passed at' a largely-attended meeting of the Wellington Head Masters Association, have been forwarded to the Prime Miulster and the Minister of Education :

(1) That the spirit of antagonism i which is rapidly developing between 1 tlie Education Department and the teachers of the Dominion is calculated to impair gravely the work that is being done in the schools. (2) That the recently-gazetted regulations, together with the statements made, without thought, by responsible officers of the Department,are keenly resented by teachers, .many of whom are beginning to believe that trade union methods are the only method to be effective in their dealings with the Department. (3) That head masters who know the effect of goverment" by regulations in London schools, and who know too, the splendijJ spirit actuating the majority of teachers in New Zealand, feel that the introduction of trade union methods, ns a means of adjusting the matters in dispute between the Department and the teachers, would be far-reaching, anil they ask that the Prime Minister and the Minister of duration give the gravest consideration to the position that has arisen, with the view of finding the means of restoring the spirit of willing co-opeiation that formerly existed between teachers and the Depa i tment. £9,0(0,000 HEIRESS. SECRET WEDDING. BRIDEGROOM TWICE HER AGENEW. YORK, Jan. 11. Miss Milliceut Rodgers, who is hairess ■to about £9/00,000, surprised her parents last night by announcing that she had just mairied Count Ludwig Salm von IToogstraten, an Austiian. On learning the news, her parents, Colonel and Mr Henry H. Roberts, cancelled their passage to England in the White Star liner Majestic and issued a formal announcement of the marriage.

The couple yesterday morning quietly visited the marriage license bureau in New York anil were married by an alderman of the city. The Count is 40, and his wealthy bride is 20. Before the war the count was a noted tennis player. lie is now a dealer in automobile accessories. Miss Rodgers is a grand-daughter .pf one of the founders of the Standaid Oil Company. SHOUT SKIRTS WIN. PARIS, Fob. 14. Long skirts have lost the day. That was evident yesterday at the 'first spring race meeting at Autouil, which is the first occasion when Paris fashions are shown. Nearly all the skirts seen there were distinctly shorter. Many of them, indeed, had gone hack to the lengths seen in 1919. Paris fashion experts acknowledge that the attempt made last year to persuade fashionable, women to adopt a long and trailing skirt has completely failed. .Most of them say that tlio opposition they met in London and Now York is the principal cause of the failure. And so they are all returning to the short skirts. A fashion expert .said this afternoon : “I think the modern woman demands the s !, ort skirt mainly because she must have free aiuj easy carriage. All the fashionable Paris modistes are making skirts much shorter. Our summer fashions will make women look much younger.” Tlie head of cue firm of modistes told me that some of iho skirts now being made are barely 4 inches below the knee.