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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIV, Issue 70, 28 February 1916, Page 6

Miss E. Toonian. of the Stratford District High School, has accepted a position in the secondary department of the Woodville School, and will lie leaving Stratford at the end ol March. As the result of a conference with the Health authorities, the Board of Education will do its utmost to check infantile paralysis. It has been decided to close tlie public schools in the city and suburbs and a number of the larger schools in the country for the next fortnight, a s an experiment. Eleven cases were reported to-day. Auckland Bress Association. The Methodist Conference sitting in Auckland made provision for chaplains serving at the front as recommended by the committee (states the Press Association). It was resolved that letters of greetings be sent to chaplains and all Methodists in 1,10 expeditionary forces amounting to three and four thousand men ; also letters of sympathy to alj Methodist women bereaved by the war. An application from the Rev. Mr Spence to become a supermimary owing to the failure of his health was agreed to with regret. Chaplain-Major Luxford’s application to become a superminiary wa s granted. Revs. G. Marshall, T. Jones, and W. Slade were made supernuinarie s lor one year, and Revs. J. Blyhat, F. W. Newhold will be continued as supernuinaries.