DOMINION NEWS.

Taranaki Daily News, 20 March 1922, Page 2

DOMINION NEWS.

BURGLARY AT DUNEDIN. By Teleffrsph.—Dress Association. Dunedin, March 18. A grocery shop at the corner of Caroline and Stafford Streeta was burglariously enteed and a safe containing £lOO dynamited. BAKERS’ CHAMPIONSHIP. Auckland, March 18. At the bakers’ exhibition the championship (open to New Zealand and Australia) was won by J. Gardiner, of Otahuhu, with 95 points; Ken. Gardiner, 94 points, 2: D. B. Macpherson, 89$, 3. Special class for Australian competitors.—F. Rimmer (Sydney) 1, Burch (Sydney) 2. HATIPARA’S FIRE OVERCOME. Wellington, (March 18. With the assistance of the tug Terawhiti, the fire brigade extinguished the outbreak on the Hetipara at 4 p.m. It was found necessary to flood the hold, in which’ there is now 15ft of water. About 600 bales of flax, a small quantity of wool, and general cargo were destroyed . The cause, of the fire, which started in the general cargo in No. 1 lower hold about 9 o’clock last night, is unknown. MORAL INSTRUCTION. Christchurch, March 18. With the object of enabling moral instruction to be given in schools, the Canterbury Education resolved that, except as provided, the ordinary hours of instruction in every district or aided school in the Canterbury Education District shall, in the case of all standard classes, be five hours each day during the five days of each week, but for preparatory classes net-d not exceed four hours, and teaching shall be entirely of a secular character, provided that, In schools in which the committee may desire to make provision for special instruction to supplement the course of moral instruction prescribed in clause 48 of the regulations for the inspection and examination of schools, the ordinary hours of instruction shall be not less than 4$ hours each day on five days of each week, during which time the teaching shall be entirely of a secular character.