DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 28 April 1927, Page 3

DOMINION ITEMS.

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IDLE TEACHERS. DUNEDIN, April 27.

At to-day’s meeting of the Otago Education Board, the Chairman, Mr <l. Wallace, referred to reports which had been circulated deploring the large number of unemployed teacfTers in Otago. These reports appeared to suggest that the Otago Board was training more teachers than it required, but this was far from the ca.so. Mr Wallace then requested the Secretary of the Board to report on the actual position.

The Sc r-tary reported that a few ’ isolated I rets had given a wrong impression. At the present moment 92 : teachers were on the Board’s relieving list. 43 of whom had completed their training college course at the end of last year. 15 at the end of 1925, 24 at the end of 1921, and It) were probationary assistants. Of these. 20 would not, or could not, accept general relieving work. A number had resigned for private reasons, or had not accepted the positions' offered them. A number of others were graded 220 or lower, and would find it difficult to secure a permanent position. A number of those graded 205 or higher had been picking and choosing positions for which they applied, as seven positions had been filled this year with teachers of much lower grading The Board <1 id not blame a teacher for waiting lor a particular position, hut he should not hold the Board and the Department responsihe for his unemployment while waiting for such a position to turn up. Of the 90 teachers available for employment. 63 had received employment this year. A number of teachers wore on the relieving list because they preferred to icmain there. SEARCHERS’ SEVERE ORDEAL. WELLINGTON. April 27. Cold, bleak, wintry conditions which made travel through the dense hush and iunglelike undergrowth exceedingly slow and unpleasant, and progress further hampered by continual wading through raging mountain torrents waist deep in water, was the experience of the .search parties who returned to Wellington to-day after an unsueeesslul quest in the Taranms for the missing youths. Desmond Scanlon and Boy Diedrieh. The lads left Levin a fortnight ago. intending to cross the range to AN’airarapa, hut since then nothing has been seen of them.

LARGE ESTATE. • DUNEDIN. April 29. Under the will of .1. ('. Marshall who arrived in Dunedin in 1872. over fiftysix thousand sterling is left to relatives and friends, the principal individual legacies being Miss Fanny Cargill ten thousand. Sir John Husking six thousand. George L. Cook seven thousand five hundred. Mistress Petrie and family six thousand. Miss Edith I’yni five thousand, G. W. Mclntosh five thousand. J. A. Cook seven thousand live hundred. Ciiafl’eur and wife each received two thousand live hundred mid a lady attendant a similar amount. N> provision is made for charitable purposes. The estate will probably he valued for death duties at about one hundred and eighty thousand.

LABOUR LEADER. NELSON, April 29. Mr H. E. Holland (Leader of the Opposition) addressed a meeting lastnight and outlined the Labour thirty's, land policy and strongly attacked the Government in connection with dairy produce control GREY MO l ill! BURGLARY. GREYMOtTH. April 29. Koar’s tailoring shop on Mawhera Quay in Kettle’s Building was burglarised last night and about .£(10 worth of suits and material taken. Entrance was secured by a hack window. Apparently plenty of time was to select suits to (it tall and short men. AY.EDNESD VY HA LF-HOLTDA Y. HASTINGS. April 23. The Wednesday halif-holiday was retained by 1665 against Saturday’s 704. LIBEL ACTION. CHRISTCHURCH, April 28. Counsel addressed the jury to-day in the action for alleged libel by Cyrus Williams (engineer to the Lyttelton Harbour Board) against the Christchurch Press Company. Mr 'Williams claimed £560 in respect to each of two letters published in the newspaper Mr Myers lor defendant company saitl no person was entitled to look at a letter through a microscope and to try to find innuendo in it. Any paragraph must he regarded as whole. Any newspaper was entitled to express an opinion as long as there was no malice