LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXX, Issue 59, 5 November 1914, Page 6

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

This morning Mr Ryan, Honorary Education Commissioner, Adelaide, who is visiting the Dominion, spent three or four hours at the boys’ training farm at Weraroa. He states that it is the most up-to-date institutes of southern hemisphere. The system the kind in methods he had seen in the at the farm was most correct. It was an answer to one of the world’s most pressing problems. With such an institution Dominion people should lie satisfied that all will be well with the children.—P.A.

The Press Association at Wellington reports: A general effort is being made by the school children, to-day in honoring the memory oi Guy Fawkes in an unusual A\ r ay, The money which ordinarily would he spent in fireAVorks is being devoted to the relief of Belgian children. The suggestion was first made in the Evening Post, and Avas eagerly taken up by all schools. Probably- a very large sum Avill be the result. One school collected £42, tAro £4O each, lavo over £33, one £25, and one £2O.