GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 125, 14 October 1912, Page 2

GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

| COMPLIMENT TO A JUDGE. By Telegraph—Press Association. Wellington, Saturday. Wlie.n Judge Williams was knighted, the members of the local profession throughout the Dominion decided to order some silver plate from England and ask the Judge to accept it as a memento of the occasion. The silver has now arrived at Dunedin, and on Tuesday at Wellington the presentation will be made on behalf of the profession by the Hon. 11. D. 1-iell, K.C., president of the Law Society of New Zealand.

TECHNICAL TRAINING, Wellington, Saturday. "If we are going to make smart, shrewd, ami industrious workmen, thoy must get their training in a Technical College," declared the chairman of the Canterbury College governors in the course of an interview with the Minister of Education to-day. He assured the Minister that boys were not getting their training in worksihnps. The men were not giving it to them, and as an employer of labor he could say that the masters should do more to assist and educate their apprentices than lliev were doing at present. "There is," ih« added, "a feeling going through the .diops that we are pay-nig a 'high vale for our labor and we are. not going to waste our time instructing boys." The Minister said ihe, was sorry to hear that masters carrying on industries in New Zealand were not giving attention (o those .who wished to_ learn in their workshops, because technical .schools could not possibly equip bo\s properly as workmen. He sincerely hoped that what Mr. Scott said was not true of the whole of New Zealand. COUNTY COUNCILLORS' DUTIES. W'lmiigarei, Saturday. The County Council nioinebrs have signed a guarantee to the Bank of New Zealand for £-1(100 to meet payments till the rates are received.