DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 3 October 1928, Page 6

DOMINION ITEMS.

:ANEW SOHOQL SyLIJABUS. ’ v ‘ ;i>|iTAiLS ASKfID FOR ‘ , ■ '' '••• - - *<&• • • 1 . |By Telegraph—Per, Press Association. } . , AU NEW PITaJOUTJK Oct. 1. '”Fbfe new school syllabus was discussed by Tai;ang,k ( i Education Board Monday. The board' realised the momentous character of the changes proposed, and the possible advantages, but bpfore cooning,.to a decision, asked tbe. pirector of Education to furnish the departmental proposals for the reorganisation of the school system in the province setting out the centres suggested as suitable for the estabThe board recommended that the Education Act and the regulations be amended to v . provide ,_tjiat changes In istaifs be made only at the end" of terms; that the present system ofvgrading-bc revised, reducing the number of salary groups; thfet boards be given greater discretionary powers regarding changes due to the rise or fall, in the .grades of schools; and that schools be graded-for staffing on the average roll. - ... '• . ALLEGED THEFT OF OAR, -v?f'7 ' ‘ tE- KTIITI, Oct. 1. i Three men suspected of being motor thieves were arrested to-day, following a report from Auckland that 1 a- car had been stolen. The . three men, Joseph Henry Trask, an elderly man, Roy EdTrlsk, sons of the former, and Norman Travers, a young man, appeared at the -Te Kuiti Police Court . .?’• to-day charged with the theft of an Essbx car; the property of Mr Bert

Shorter, of Auckland. The accused T! riNi'erk. remanded .'to appear at Auckland. ' Reports having been received that the .thieves were armed, the local police .took precautions in • that respect.

. PRISONER AT LARGE .WELLINGTON, Oct. 1. Thomas Lowry, who' has been serving a sentence of Three years at Wi Take prison, hear Trentham, escaped from that institution at 9 a.m. on Friday. Although a diligent search is % ,d)eing. ffiadi&; ; whereho is at present lias not been discovered. . .... f Ati-1— 7.- h ~ PRISONERS SENTENCED. - ;Uf AUCKLAND,.. Oct. 1. - Mr Justice Smith sentence! Charles , to twp f prpbation for'-the * ((of I ;f buyi cows,. ■ (• ; -. v ..yifv j rojvj T L‘ y-As; fined : for mahihg a false declaration to obtain a marriage certificate. The case of Claude Albert Johnson

(Baeroa), wHq was . committed for- in-, AiijestJ'waTs 'kdfourried fi>i’ a fortnight for medical examination of prisoner.

EX-RUSSIAN general: ' > WELLINGTON, Oct. 2. In the Wellington Post Office, employed, aSj, a, das General Boris timq -w^-.tLe: Governor ‘i>f* *Rhsterii Siberia. A victim© of Bolshevik misrule, Merlin was born at St. Petersburg in 1873. He of. ilie JRoyal pages, and \yas ’'Military.' Colif i:. . /He. served in the Russo-Japan-x;:. esie; ? w:ar,>.. ihlf Attif ;he was given "r'pharge of .the, Britisli-Indian < section "oh tlje“ Graji'd\ Reiieral Staff at St. Petersburg. He states there never was any foundation for t scares that Russia intended to invade India. He was over five years in Tokio oii the Russian. Ambassadorial staff, and on liis own horse he won the Tokio Derby. In 1913 he w aa.a pp oi nted, to the Russian Embassy in London. He used to ride in Rotten Roiv daily, his most constant companion ijeing the Huke of Connaught. Merlin was a mepiber pf twelve exclu- . sjye s clubs in LondonV ' lii January, - he was sent, on a mission , to Bucharest. He there liiet the notor-

ious Prince Carol of Roumania. Owing jjsriil'ei. he had to flee from jtlie: .Governorship of Efcisterji Siberia, ;

,- MM, CYCLIST’S INQUEST. ' WELLINGTON, Oct., 2] ~v T he inquest on Geoffrey Charles Phillips, a motor cyclist, who was fat- ' ally injured in a collision with a motor bus at Petone, was concluded, before Coroner J. H. Salmon, to-day. The inquiry opened on Friday, when the. evHenb© .of .several witnesses, includingilie driver of the bus, was beard,, .The Coroner’s verdict was that deceased died at Wellington Hos- ■ plpßal on 2"th September, the,: cause of ■f‘. ideatb being , a fracture of the base of the. skuil; ( other serious injuries, and shock, which he received asvjthe result of a. collision with a A . . evidence, showed that the driver of. bus Was turning ffdm. Jackson Street into William Street at a slow ipace. Phillips^Wifs-isfidihg along Jackson ..Street at an excessive speed, with l '.;bis head d6wn arulydid not see the bus until it was too late to avoid it. i|he Circumstances-"showed no blame Was. attachable to the driver of the bus. t.- y. .= v : i s - - •■. 'l' . •. V ..$1 MOTOR BANDIT CASE., - „ §DME ARRESTS MADE. AUCKLAND, Oct. 2. Travis-and Trask, junior, two of the three men who were arrested at Te Kuiti yesterday for stealing a car, appeared at Auckland this afternoon in connection -.with the motor bandit case, at Mt. Eden op Friday night. . j-i Vi-. > ■ , - v