DOMINION NEWS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIII, Issue 24, 25 May 1912, Page 5

DOMINION NEWS.

(Per Press Association.} A JOCKEY'S INJURIES. Wanganui, May 21. At midnight, F. Howard, the jockey who suffered concussion as a result of Pleiades falling in tho Wanganui Steeplechase on Thursday, was •still lying unconscious in the hospital. CLE ATM X C BLACKBERRY. Reef ton, May 21. The Inangahua Chamber of Commerce suggests to the Minister the employment of spare labour in clearing blackberries on roads and Crown lands. TEA-ROOMS GUTTED. Core, May 2d. By fire at 4 a.rn. Brice’s tea rooms and a clothing factory and shop adjoining were slightly damaged by water and smoke. The building was owned by Hallenstein Bros. Insurance; Brice’s stock and effects £520 in the Victoria office. The tea rooms were completely gutted. The loss includes a valuable piano. COM PFLSOR v FI >1 TO TI OX. Foildiug, May 25. The Minister for Education has approved of the Education Board’s regulation for compulsory attendance at continuation classes in the Wanganui Education District and the experiment will first he tried in Wanganui and suburbs, where tho conditions are mvcootienable favourable.