DOMINION NEWS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVII, Issue 22, 26 May 1915, Page 2

DOMINION NEWS.

THE TAUMARUNUI SEAT. i'Eii Pkess Association. Wellington, May 25. The Hon. W. F. Massey has receied correspondence from Mr W. T. Jennings and the Te Kuiti Liberal and Labor League asking for the removal of Mr Schramm from the position of returning officer for Taumarunui. He stated that the suggestion is utterly unreasonable, and added that in order that no interested party might have ra use for complaint had arranged for an officer from the head office of the Flcctoral Department to go to Taumarunui until the by-election is over and work with the electoral officer. ALCOHOL AND THE YOUNG. Wellington, May 25. \ deputation from the New Zealand Alliance and W.C.T.U. waited on the Hon J Allen, Minister for Education, <-o-day and urged that additional measures should be taken to instruct children regarding the evils arising from the abuse of alcohol. In reply Mr Allen said the Education Department had done a great deal in the direction of pointing out to the children under its care the dangers following the abuse of alcohol. The deputation's spokesmen had said that in some cases charts now exhibited in schools were not serving their purposes, because teachers were not sympathetic He did not think anything the Department might do would have much effect if the teachers were unsympathetic. Mrrs A. R. Atkinson said the teacher would be influenced if he were to K et teaching marks for the subject. If temperance teaching were made an examination subject the teachers would become sympathetic. The Minister: "I cannot say I ap'prcciate the principle behind that suggestion. If a teacher is going to be judged simply by examination results I don't think his soul will be in Ins work." Mr Allen added that the tendency of the Department was to attach' less importance to examinations and to concentrate attention on the improvement of the children. The Department was improving its syllabus from time to time with the object of educating children in good citizenship and more would be done in that direction as opportunity offered. If some teachers were not sympathetically inclined towards temperance teaching that was a difficulty that would have have to be overcome. The Minister said he would consult the Director of Education regarding the suggestion that temperance teaching should be included in the syllabus of the training college.

SEARCH FOR A WOMAN. I Auckland, May 25. A young woman of Northeote, Constance Carter, aged 22, mysteriously disappeared last night. She retired as usual with two sisters about 9 p.m., land this morning she was gone. So 'far as can be ascertained, she was clothed only in night attire, a raincoat and a pair of boots. Somnambulism is suggested. A search is being made. A STOLEN YACHT. Auckland, May 25. The lost mullet boat Rinaldo, which disappeared i'rom her moorings at Pon'sonby some few weeks ago, was found sheltering in the Manakati harbor last night, at Kaitakara Bay. On boarding the yacht the police found two men fast asleep in their bunks, and needless to say theirs' was a rude awakening, and they were arrested on a charge of stealing the craft. They appeared in the Onehunga Court to-day (and were remanded.

After the Kinaklo disappeared from her moorings at Ponsonby nothing was heard of for some days. On -May 11 a boat answering to her description was seen at Whangarei harbor, 12 miles from Whangarei. It was here that the hull was painted green. The men then left for the north and called at Russell three days afterwards, and after a stay of a few hours they took their departure and were next heard of last Saturday, when they were interviewed by officers of the s.s. llimu.