Stratford News

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 142, 2 November 1912, Page 3

Stratford News

/From Our Resident Reporter. MIDHIRST 1 (From an Occasional Correspondent.) : On Thursday afternoon Miss 11. Lewis, first assistant teacher at the Midhirst School, was presented by the scholars and parents with a brush and comb and glove-box sot. Miss Lewis has been teaching at the school since February last, and during that time she lias brought the chiidrcm on wonderfully well, and the little ones are very sorry to lose her, although when she first came her methods were considered to be very strict. Speaking as a parent, Mr. Editor, I do not believe in sparing the rod to sjioil a child, and I am very sorry Miss Lewis is. going. One family made a special present to their departing teacher, in recognition of the pains she •took with a little chap who was backward through illness. We are all wondering why our teacher is being moved to Tariki, which is a lower grade school than ours. It was promotion to her when she came here, and her examination, results were "very good," so a committeeman tells me. He says the Board tried to get this teacher away before, but the head teacher objected, as the examination was coming on. .The committee sent in a protest, too, but the Board tooß no notice. They did not even say they got the letter, but seemed to ignore it absolutely. The Tariki teacher is to change with Miss Lewis, and the idea is supposed to be to bring the Tariki teacher nearer to her home in Stratford. Isn't our teacher, who also lives in Stratford, entitled to some consideration? I don't think tnese transfers of teachers every few months are in the interests of teachers or pupils either, and if girls are treated as if they'were only pawns in the game no wonder there is a shortage of teachers. We. are sorry to lose our teacher, and we can't help wondering what is at the bottom of it all, and we hope the new teacher will be ai go»i.

f MAGISTRATE'S COURT | There was the usual batch of by-law | cases in the S.M. Court yesterday', and fines were inflicted for cycling on footpaths in the borough. Frank O'Laughlh was fined for breach of a prohibtion o:der. Judgment by default was entered in the case, Uhlenberg Bros. (Mr. Anderson) v., William Derby, claim £0 lis 3d and costs (£1 10s 6d); Court and Cottier (Mr. Thompson) sued Albert Prosser. claim for goods supplied, and judgment Was entered for {.'aintiff for £1 10s and costs (£1 10s). Judgment summons cases were dealt with as follows: James Henry Floyd w;s ordered to pay T. D. Colson' (Mr. Thomson) £4 43 forthwith, in default seven days, warrant suspended until December 1; Charles H. Geary (Mr. Stanford) was orderei to pay £2 7s Sd, in default seven days; Patrick D'Arcy was ordered to pay the Stratford Hospital and Charitable Aid Board (Mr. Fookes) £3 19s, in default seven days, warrant to be suspended irotil December 1. There was no appearance of judgment debtors. STRAY PARAGRAPHS On Tuesday next the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company will hold their stock sale ,at the Stratford yards in conjunction with Messrs.'' W. H. H. Young & Co. The offering includes several choice lines of heifers and dairy cows. Writing to "Mr. Kenrick," the Magistrate, a man. charged with breach of his ' prohibition order, pleaded that he had been playing for a dance and was not j feeling well. "It took two bottles of < whisky, your Worship," said ' Sergeant McNeely. j

The Borough Council is going to have another meeting on Monday to discuss the loan proposals.