FEATHERSTON NEWS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XVI, Issue 4998, 10 April 1895, Page 3

FEATHERSTON NEWS.

(From Our Own Correspondent), Wednesday. On Monday, there were only three ' cases heard by Mr T. Hutchison, I S.M., one was for debt, and two ' were for breaches of tho School ■ Attendance Act, Mr Kent-Johnston, Secretary of the local School Comi mittee, appoared on tho Committee's behalf, and gave evidence of having posted notices to both the defendants in question, namely J. Crawford and W. Ritchie, The defendants both said that they had not received th&notices, but the S.M. pointed out W there is no need of any notice buing sent, so long as the child is on > the Rogister of tho School, and that parents are liable to pay 2s per week, .*■ 'for every week that the child does not make' tho required sii attendances, if it is good health, and he further pointed out that should a child be ill, the parents must apply to the Committee for a certificate of j exemption, Crawford was convicted and ordered to pay 7s costs; Ritchie Was convicted and discharged, Yesterday afternoon a yourg inai named. Arthur Hyland met with a painful accident. He and some others • employed by Mr A. Yule with his traction engine and chaffcutter had set up a grindstone to be driven by the ongine, and through oversight on their part, they used the oidinary driving wheel of the engine to a four inch in diameterpulley on the shaftof the grindstone. Tho result • was that the velocity with which the stone went, even at the y machine's lowest speed, caused the , grindstone to fly to pieces, one piece jfoiking'Hyland, who was standing by ■h'stone, on the arm, severely mcturing it. Thepiece which struck Hyland went for a distance of two chains, Had it struck him anywhere . else it, would have beon fatal. The sufferer was; taken tothe'Greytown! Hospital and attended to by Dr. Bey.