Manawatu Herald. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1923. LOCAL AND GENERAL

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 2663, 24 November 1923, Page 2

Manawatu Herald. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1923. LOCAL AND GENERAL

We are asked In warn children visit ill" Ilia karn Hardens not to roll down 1 lie grass slopes, as damage is living caused by this practice. The injunction “to keep off the grass” will in future he strictly enforced. The next united meeting for prayer and intercession will be held in the iSalvaton -Army Hall on Tuesday evening next a I 7.30. The meeting will be codin'led bv Mrs Ensign Huston and the Wev. W. 11. Walton will give the address. At Fort Worth, Texas, Ur. Frederick Cook, the Arctic explorer and oil man, was found guilty in promoting oil companies on all of twelve counts and was sentenced to fourteen years and nine months hnprisoineni, and a line of twelve thousand dollars was imposed. Thirteen others received terms ranging from a year to eight years and large lines were inflicted. His partner, A. K. Eckinan, was sentenced to seven years and a similar tine.

A combined evangelistic service will lc held in the Town Hall tomorrow (Sunday) night al 8 o’clock. The address will he delivered by the Rev. L. AlcDonald. Hymn sheets will he provided for the song service and everyone is welcome. A message from T.os \ngeles states that prohibit ion oi’iiccr.s seized nil exp! ess package from New A ork marked “cinema li!in>. with care,” and addressed to Joseph Engle, vice-president of the Metro Pictures Corporation. Engle has been ar-il-ted. The Education Board has accepted the resignations of Airs Prank and Mi-- Patton as teachers of the local school staff. Aiiss Patton has keen in charge of the Beach school during the war. The resignations will take effect from January Hist, next. The Board is taking steps to |j|| the vacancies.

There is a stir in the camp of the local corps of the Salvation Army it being Hie children's Sunday school anniversary to-morrow. Special orchestra ami songs by the children. Major and Mrs Thnrkelllc will he in charge. A I real for young and old. The happy days of childhood free from care.

Cases arc constantly being reported in tin' London press of assaults upon teachers by angry parents, and we have been surprised (says the Daily Chronicle) at the neglect of magistrates to impose a suitable punishment. The other day n man end woman who had been annoyed at the caning- of their child by n headmistress, were summoned for making- a violent attack upon two teachers of the school, and were let oil with lines of 40s and 20s each. The women who were thus attacked were engaged in their duties in the service of the State. H is intolerable that the law should offer them so slight a protection. The offence in (piesiion obviously ought to have been punished by imprisonment.