NEWS AND NOTES

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 3812, 30 June 1928, Page 1

NEWS AND NOTES

There is no belter green food than cabbage, while a herring supplies nearly as much body-building food as the same weight of salmon. j At least one big London shop prefers to engage women graduates of Oxford or Cambridge as sales- j women with opportunities for promotion. Under the “Big Brother” movement, founded in 1925, 1306 Bri- ! tish hoys have gone to Australia, in 28 cases their families have followed them. j Blenheim Palace, the seat of the Duke of Marlborough, is the lnr- j gest private residence in England. The main building alone covers ; ! hree acres. , Henry Edward Cvandle, a school- j master at Makara, was charged by 1 Lulu Gestro with assault , at the ! Wellington S.M. Court. Gestro had ihreatenod Crandle, who, in self- ! defence had struck him with a stick. 1 The ease was dismissed.

Mr. W. M. Adams, of Wanganui has decided to contest the North Ward seat for membership in the Wanganui Education Board. Air. Adams, who is at present a member of the Board, is a retired schoolmaster and a man of keen intellect and broad ideas, who during his term of office on the Board, lias been a most practical member. He is one whose whole ambition is wrapped up in the welfare of the primary school pupils and their teachers in order that the very best possible conditions may maintain towards the goal of efficiency. Mr. Adams was for some years headmaster of the local school.