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(By Telegraph—Press Association.) A FATAL FALL. DUXEDIX, Last Night. Charles John Ay res, aged 28 years, who met with an accident at Hudson's biscuit factory on September 21&t, died in the hospital to-day. While Ayres was on a ladder making alterations to a pulley, one of the rungs broke, and he fell some 15ft to the ground, striking the edge of a trolley and severely lacerating his abdomen. He had sufficiently recovered to be able to get out in the hospital grounds, but two days ago he took a turn for the worse.
SCHOOL SYLLABUS. NEGLECT OF ELOCUTION. CHiRTSTOH-UROH, Last Xight. The Education Board this morning parried a motion endorsing the opinion of the district inspectors that recitation was neglected, 'and urging that greater attention be paid to elocution in schools'. In the course of a discussion, members spoke pessimistically of the inability' of scholars and ex-scholars to speak and. write English correctly, and the opinion wa,s. expressed that the syllabus devoted too much attention to a subject which gave no training for the battle of life.,
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10447, 12 October 1911, Page 5
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178TELEGRAPHIC. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10447, 12 October 1911, Page 5
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