LOOKING BACK

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 48, Issue 84, 19 January 1928, Page 6

LOOKING BACK

TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO. (.From “Guardian,” January 19, 1903.) Wakanui River Board.—The Returning Office rlast evening announced that Messrs S. Brown, James Caehrane, J. Bonifant, and E. Thomas had been elected to the Wakanui River Board. The first meeting of the new board was held and Mr S. Brown was elected chairman for tho ensuing year. Salvation Army.—Commissioner MeKie of the Salvation Army in Australia, accompanied by Colonels Gilmogr and Hoskens will conduct sm evangelistic service at the Oddfellows’ Hall on [Thursday evening. Commissioner Mc|Kie was many yeax-s chief officer of th© [Salvation. Army in Germany. When he arrived in Berlin, he found Anglophobia of a very pronounced type, so much so that scarcely anything of English origin would be tolerated. The Army was having a very bad,' time, being represented by only 42 officers. When Commissioner McKie left Germany that number had swollen to 280. Private School.—Mr White, of Ashburton),, has taken over the management of Miss Barratt’S private school, and the; first term will commence on January 26. Personal, Mr G. Coghill, of the Un-i ion Bank) has been transferred to Dun- j edin, and- will leave Ashburton by the express to-morrow. Pupil' Teachers’ Examinations.—The Ashburton- candidates at the Canterbury Education Board’s examinations have again- been highly successful. Miss Muriel A. Bell (Borough), Messrs Harold T. Revell (Borough), Thomas J. Stephens (Hampstead), and Miss Min!nie F. Baker (Borough), have all pass!ed the third year pupils’ examination. Miss May Sealy (Borough) has passed the fourth year pupil teachers’ examination.