GENERAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIV, Issue 14, 20 December 1915, Page 8

GENERAL.

“When a man’s body is wet, and the bathing costume he is wearing is in the same condition, it bangs very differently to when it is dry,” said the custodian of the Lyall Bay beach, in giving evidence in the Magistrate’s Court, Wellington, when a defendant put on a bathing costume in court, in order to show how it covered bis body. “Well,” said Inspector Hendrey, “perhaps if defendant dons the costume and the hose in put on him in the police station yard, the proper effect will be obtained.”. Needless to say (adds the New Zealand Times), the suggestion was not carried out.

The Ackland Road School, To J’opo, had a record attendance for the year. Out of a roll number of twenty-one, ten secured good attendance certificates, and had it not been, for an epidemic of measles three weeks ago. three more pupils would have also ■ been successful in this respect. In the above-mentioned ten are two children who have attended for three years without missing a day and one who has just completed live years’ uninterrupted attendance. Considering that it is a country school, to which some of the pupils have to travel as far as three miles, this state of affairs reflects great credit upon the parents and children, and also on the teacher, Miss Knox, who is decidedly popular in the district. The annual school picnic is held in March, when the certificates and prizes for the year will be distributed.