GENERAL TELEGRAMS

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 335, 10 March 1910, Page 5

GENERAL TELEGRAMS

STRANDED BLACKFISH. By Telegraph.—Press' Association. Nelson, Last Night. Sixty blacktish, some meausrbig 20ft in length, were washed up on the beach at Pakawau to-day. ENCOUNTER WITH A SHARK. Gisborae, March !). H. M-Uregor, engineer at the freezing works, while bathing on the .Waikanae beach, was chased by a shark, the teeth of which grazed his foot as he was struggling to reach the shore, badly lacerating it. SCHOOL COMMITTEE GRANTS. Dunedin, March a. The School Committees.'' Association interviewed the Hon Mr Fowlds, asking if he would do liis best to reinstate the Imperial capitation granted by Mr Serfdom Committees were finding it impossible to curry on without this grant. The Minister, in course of a. reply, said reinstatemnet was impossible tin's year, but next year he would consider the question and probably suggest a new basis of payments to the committees, lie suggested that as in many cases; boards had reduced payments to committees each time a special grant was made by the Government the funds of those boards were swelled by so mtieh that they could now well afford to make up 'the present los-'s sustained by the Committees' Association.