DOMINION TELEGRAMS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 75, 5 April 1913, Page 6

DOMINION TELEGRAMS.

CHARGE OF INCENDIARISM. [Per Press Association.] Ashburton, April 4. To-day Matthew Finlay Patterson was committed to the Supreme Court for trial on.a charge that, at Ashburton Forks, on March 22nd, he wilfully set fire to a stack of peas, the property of Hugh Kennedy, and valued at £SO. Bail was allowed. 7 . V V - THE AUCKLAND EXHIBITION, jd : | Napier, April 4. . A public meeting to-night supported a proposal to have a Hawke’s Bay court at the Auckland Exhibition, and an executive committee was appointed to get into toilch with the various towns in the district and with the manufacturers likely to be interested. MUTTON BIRDERS CHILDREN. Invercargill, April 4. At the Education Board meeting to-day, Inspector Henry drew attention, to the practice of mutton birders takipg their children with them to ' the mutton birding islands, thus withdrawing them from school during two months of the year. The result was that attendances at some schools near the coast were seriously reduced and the grading of schools had to be reduced. Mr Henry suggested that the children should be left with friends and board paid at the rate of 2s 6d per child. The Board decided to communicate with the Government to ascertain if assistance would be given.

TEACHERS AND DEFENCE. The Education Board declined to allow three teachers leave to attend the annual’ military training camp, and passed a resolution requesting the Government that the compulsory attendance of teachers at military parades during school hours should not have been forced without consulting the Educaton Board in the first instance in order to prevent the closing and disorganisation of schools. MUNICIPAL TRAMWAYS. The municipal trams during the year ended March 31st show receipts £13;168 and expenditure £16,331, leaving a deficit of £3162.' Deducting £2050, the estimated value of the stock in handy the sum of £lll2 will have to be produced out of the general account. LINES WILL PAY 8J PER CENT. Wellington, April 5. Interviewed by a Post reporter today as to the prospects of the railway revenue for the financial year just closed, the Minister of Railways (Hon. W. H. Herries) said the policy of the Department was to make 3J per cent on expenditure, and he thought the net revenue would provide the required amount. The actual are not yet available.