ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Taranaki Daily News, 14 May 1918, Page 4

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

MOTOR OYKMST KILLED. By Telegraph—Press Association. Wanganui, lost Night. George Thompson, about 3G, a stoker at the gasworks, was killed by a train colliding with a motor-cycle and sidecar at the Halswell street crossing this afternoon. Mrs. Thompson was very badly injured, and was taken to the hospital. Two young children are left.

Diphtheria is spreading in the Strata ford district, and several cases are under treatment at this date. Precautionary steps have been taken at the school (sava the Post). '" Professor Hunter, in the course of aq address on education at Palmerston North, expressed himself as entirely opposed, to religious schools, which, ho said, were inimical to national and humanr solidarity. No grants should be made to them at all; they should pay for inspection by State inspectors, and should be compelled to have qualified teachers at adequate salaries. With its resources, the State institutions must, moreover, be superior in all respects to the religious schools. Last Wednesday, Mr. Spencer (Education Department), Mr. Morton (chief inspector of the Taranaki Education Board), and Mr. R. Masters (chairman of the board), visited the southern part of Taranaki with the object of showing Mr. Spencer the conditions of the Normanby and Okaiawa schools, which will in the near future require rebuilding. The party also inspected the proposed site of the Tawhiti school. The improvements made at the Hawera District High School in the direction of open-air class-rooms for the lower standards w«re inspected, and very favorably commented upon by Mr. Spencer. A visit was then made to the Auroa School, where the necessity has arisen for further accommodation. Owing to the progress of the district, it has been found necessary to conduct some of the classes in the Auroa Hall. The committee met the visitors, and placed the facts before them, and discussed the nature of the adi ditions. On Thursday morning the reserve in Stratford recently handed over by the Borough Council to the Education Department was inspected, as also was the new site for the Stratford Technical High School. The Model Dairy Farm was next visited, and Mr. Spencer showed very keen interest in the practical agricultural work now being undertaken by the pupils of the Stratford District High School. A visit to the Stanley Road open-air school was also made. where several photographs were taken for publication in the Public School Journal.—Post. vw»w»