IN THE NEWS.

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 400, 6 April 1937, Page 4

IN THE NEWS.

TWO NEW SCHOOLS. Steps are being taken to procure no v school sites at both Onehunga and Mount Albert, Auckland. The site at Onehunga under consideration is a little over seven acres in extent and is centrally situated. WELLINGTON’S FINANCE. A surplus of approximately £BOOO in the city accounts for the financial ye; r end d March 3*., 1937, was an norm ed by the Mayor, Mr T. C. A Heslop, a; a meeting of the Welling ton Ci y Council last niglit. When the estimates were before the council ast \ear a surplus of abouit £2oou wa:? budge.ed for. MILK FOR SCHOOL CHILDREN. Over 15,000 school children are r* j ceiving, their daily half-pint of nr Ik in Wellington, according to advic? received from the distributors. This total includes not only kindergartens and primary schools, but also an in creasing number of secondary school and college pupils. The perc ntage of refusals is very small. HEAVY RANGITAJA BOOKINGS. File last direct passenger sailing from New Zealand to reach London before the Coronation on May 12, <1 be the New Ze land Shipping Coni pany’s Rangita.ta, which is Ito leave Welling on to morrow. She is due at Plymouth, on May 9, and a.t London on May 10. The Rangita.ta has a very h- Vy booking of about 400 pass n gers. NEW ZEALANDERS’ VOYAGE. Having signed on as members of he crew of the private steam yacht Marilyn after the vessel Joseph Conad was sold at New York, three New Zealand c dets who went with Cap tain Villiers on his long cruise across the Pacific were expec; ing, accordin'-’ <> ad'vo.e received in Auckland, to arrive at Southampton at the end •f last month from New York. The yacht went to Bermuda and it v’a,o go to the Azores before con'inning to England.