TIMARU NEWS
Press Association. TIMARU, February 17., For some time past a train has >icen run from Timaru to Christchurch and back on Wednesdays, but it has been poorly patronised. The Chamber of Commerce to-day, decided to recommend the department to dispatch it earlier and make it serve the purposes of a mornini' train from Asliburton to Christchurch and also to make it more useful for the local passenger traffic. A proposal is under discussion hero to change the half-holiday from Thursday to Saturday. The Chamber of Commerce expressed a preference for Thursday. The Bovs’ High. School opened iff the new building with a considerable increase in the number of pupils (94), of Whom 27 are boarders at the Rectory, and the accommodation provided is now occupied. Owing to the increased roll the board to-day appointed a fourth assistant (Mr E- A. Cockroft, of Invercargill) It is intended to specialise in agriculture Ur J. Tait, first assistant, takes that branch. Mr Massey has accepted an invitation to JormalWopen the nt£W eoliool .cajly. lx.Gxt month* Tfrs girls* school reopens with 64 pupils—about the samo as last term. The board congratulated th© staff of this school on its success at the university sx&D£iißCitioiiß»
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 8357, 18 February 1913, Page 4
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201TIMARU NEWS New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 8357, 18 February 1913, Page 4
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