LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 48, 26 February 1914, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

lii the bowling tourney at Auckland Morison's rink is keeping its end up well. In their section they have won four games and lost one, being on a level with a Christchurch rink skipped by Sandstein. On the other hand, Jackson's team arc just as badly down, having one win only to their credit, and is hopelessly out of the running. But play is at the half-way stage, and there is bound to be a change of positions. May Morison hold his own.

At midnight, just as the idd year was passing into' the new, a ■vast change took place in Brazil (says the Shipping World). Time in the Republic is henceforth based on Greenwich time, and all official clocks have had to be altered thereto. The hour in East Brazil is two hours later than Greenwich, and then it passes from

/.one to zone till, in the west, it is five hours behind the Groemvick clock. There is to be a change in the maps, also, causing some atlases to be out of date. All the longitudes are to be recorded in terms of the meridian of Greenwich, instead of that of Rio de Janeiro.

' Mr R. Masters brought the matter I of the Stratford School playground be- ! fore the Minister for Education at New Plymouth yesterday. He said the-play-ground provided only half an acre for 700 children. There was a residence on the ground 30 years' old, and the committee wished to sell this building, let the teacher take his house allowance, as he was willing to do. and use tin 1 site of the residence as a- playground. An application to the Department in July last had not been replied to. The Minister took plans of the grounds, and promised to consider the matter.