LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 59, 28 March 1907, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Tlicro will be n 0 issue of the "Taranalci Daily tf t . W3 » to-morrow (Good Friday) or Monday next (Easter Monday. Advertisers please note. The paper will be published as , 13lml o]l Saturday. We will 1„. obliged if the various church olheials will kin.llv hand in narticulars of their eliurcb services as earlv as possible to-day. -If these children never see school, they will grow up like cattle." An extract from a letter praying for the establishment of a school'at Okau, inland lrom Tongaporulii. Palmcrston North is s«ffering from a reaction after the boom. Fully 1/7 civil cases have been set down fo'r hearing at the next sittings of the SM Court, a number that constitutes a 'record. The following have been selected f.o represent the Itilles in the match with llie Guards on Friday:— Lieut.-l'oloiwl Okey, Color-Sergeant Lister, (sergeant McKeoVu, Corporals Aruiitage. anil Bruce, l'rivalc Humphries, A. and i'i Marett, Harvey. Emergencies- fjeiw Levcii, l'rivatcs Banks and Cole " ""'

Ha' Inglewood school committee is renewing the agitation ~,,• an uniformity ill school books for the colonv. \ letter from that body dealing with the subject, came before (he Education Hoard on Wednesday, but, in view of the pending issue of a ".School Journal " it wis decided to merely acknowledge the letter. c

l ''" l ' ll «'<I<11« lrom the auction »>»i-i.»! \ ickcrs and Stevens, Inglcwood, a man named Alexander Angus, alias Stewart, etc.. with a record of thirteen convictions against him, was convicted an, sentenced to six months' hard labor, .inn lie was ordered to be brought before a .ludge of the Supreme Court and dealt with as an habitual oll'endcr.

Mr (.. Jisch will represent the Editcation Board on the committee of management of the New Plvnioutli Technical school. Mr J. 1). Morrison suggested yesterday that the Hoard should have a representative on the committee of the ytratiord Technical school, and gave notice to move at next incctiin' of the Board that a new committee" if management be set up.

last events (ire evidently castin« their shadows before. The "tnglcwood school committee wrote tu the Education Board rocpiesting the insertion in their regulation, "that personal canvassing by applicants for position as teachers in schools under the Hoard's control be considered sufficient reason for the disqualification of any applicant. so offending." 'J'he Board, however, declined thus to (lout human nature, and the letter will be acknowledged. Three years ago Miss Olive lladdrel) and Master Henry Lawrence. Cook, „f New Plymouth, sat for the Queens • scholarships, and were successful. The regulations then allowed three years' free education at the Xew Plymouth High .School, and a further course at (he Victoria College. After entering for the examination, however, i.ie regulations were altered, and tile scholarships granted to them carried only the secondary school course, ami were in manv other respects of less value than had been the case when the candidates announced their intention of sitting for the exam, inntion. The Education Hoard has since been constantly in coiiimuiiicali" with the authorilics.aud at last the Minister for Education has acknowledge the unfairness of making the Act of liiiw retrospective. Sergeant Haddrell and .Mr Cook have now received intimation that the scholarship winners will be, entitled to take the Victoria College course and obtain all the advantages which were stated iu the original Act.