GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 86, 24 November 1911, Page 2

GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

SCHOOLS AS BOOTHS. (Per Press Association.) Wanganui, November 23. At the Wanganui Education Board meeting last niglit the question oi the use of schools as polling booths on election day was discussed. A motion was moved by Mr Dixon, “That schools should be closed on election day,” the mover claiming that neither children nor teachers could work amid the excitement of election day. Mr Pirani (chairman) 'moved as an amendment: “That the action of the chairman Sn protesting against the use of schools on election day when other buildings are available bo endorsed, also that schools remain open.” The amendment was carried by live to three. LOW MILK SUPPLY. Eltham November 23. Exceptionally unseasonable weather continues and is retarding milk supplies, though higher prices are more than compensating for lower outputs as compared with last year. ELECTORAL CASES. Eltham, November 23. At the Magistrate’s Court yesterday three defendants were separately charged with making false declarations regarding claims for enrolment, and another defendant, D. E. Paterson, had three separate charges against him in respect to the above claims old misleading the Registrar of Electors by causing to be sent him claims containing a false statement. One case was dismissed one defendant was lined JOs and the other cases were part heard. •' In one cage it was alleged that a claim was made out in pencil but Patterson sent in a claim in ink containing a false statement at variance with the statement made by claimant, who denies having written or signed it. ,'j'he Magistrate considered this case very serious, involving the elements of perjury or forgery, and adjourned the hearing to secure further evidence. JOURNALIST’S ROSY VIEW. , Auckland, November 23. Dr W. H. EitcJiett, the Australian journalist, was a through passenger to Sydney by the Zealandia. In an interview he said a new England is being evolved—new in a political and social sense. England in short was growing more wisely and uoblly democratic; and as the masses were brought into fuller partnership with the whole life of the city it was inevitable that the strength and resources of the city itself would lie multiplied. Canada, Dr. EitcJiett declares, is in a condition of what might lie called “effervescent prosperity.” It is amusingly and excitingly conscious of its own prosperity. AUCKLAND SUPREME COURT. Auckland, November 23. In the Supreme Court Judge Edwards granted a decree nisi in the divorce ease Maty Stone v. John Thomas Stone, who married her at the Christchurch registry office in 190 G and immediately deserted her. George Smith charged with neglecting to provide adequate sustenance for liis two sons, aged 8 and 6, who

were found by the Whangarei police in an emaciated condition, was sentenced to six months’ imprisonment, the Judge remarking that accused’s housekeeper, though not criminally responsible, evidently had her share in grossly neglecting the children.