LOCAL AND GENERAL.
The usual weekly drill of the Rifle Club will be held this evening.
Weather Forecast.—The indications are for a westerly heavy gale and veering by W. to S. Heavy rain is to be expected with rivers rising shortly. The barometer has a falling tendency, but unsteady.—Bates, Wellington.
A Wellington Press Association telegram to-day states: A public meeting held last night passed resolutions expressing satisfaction at the action of the last Parliament in defending the national schools from clerical domination, and reminding electors that if the proposals of the Bible-in-Schools League were adopted, justice demands denominational grants to those churches which cannot accept the League's scheme.
In reference to a recent statement that at the time of the strike the old' Watersiders' Union in Wellington offered to put dairy produce aboard, the l President of the National Dairy Association states that if any offer were made at all, it was to unload cheese from trucks into the Harbour Board's cheese shed, but this offer, even if it were made, would be entirely useless, as there was no railway siding to the 'shod.
Yesterday the Methodist Sunday | School children celebrated Lh?ii* A>~>-< niversary in the Began Street Hal!.. The weather being excellent, the children turned out m full force, and it was a pleasing sight to see the happy faces of so many little ones together with their teachers ;>nd members of the church . choir, till seated upon a large platform erected for the occasion. Under the excellent conductors!]ip of Mr C. 11. Lawn, and assisted by an orchestra, the children went through their special hymns in first-class style. The preacher for the day was the Rev. R. B. Tinsley, of Opunake, who delivered some splendid and interesting addresses to both young and old. The Anniversary will he co it-inned on Tuesday, when a tea and concert will he held in the Regan Street Hall, and it is hoped there will he large attendances.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 291, 7 December 1914, Page 4
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