LATE LOCALS.

Hokitika Guardian, 11 March 1926, Page 3

LATE LOCALS.

Gars will be leaving Newmans Motors Ltd garage oil Saturday next at 12 o’clock for the motor cycle sports which are being held on. the Grey mouth racecourse. Patrons me re lies ted to hook seats by ringing ’phone 171.

Nurse Sanderson, who has been in charge of the dental work in connection with the schools ol the district, has received notice of transfer to Christchurch, and leaves hv Saturday morning’s express for her n,?w location. Miss C'ox, V.D.S. replaces Miss Sanderson in this district.

“Long experience has convinced me,” said Mr J. 11. Howell, in the course of an address on “Technical Education” at Wellington, “that in many cases it is a waste of the energies both of the teacher and of the growing hoy to allow students under the age of 15. or even 10, to attend evening school." The facilities for education, he thought, should he made available not later than G o’clock in the afternoon, and such day-time education should be emitinui.nl lip to the a<re of 18 for all those who had not reached a satisfactory standard. When the time of greatest stress for the adolescent was past, the student from IS to 25. could, with much advantage to himself as well as to the country, devote himself to the elevating pursuit, of such knowledge and skill as would enable, him to find greater pleasure in his daily occupation.