TIMARU NEWS.

Bush Advocate, Volume XXI, Issue 288, 9 June 1909, Page 3

TIMARU NEWS.

[FBESS ASSOCIATION.] TIMAItU, last night. .The Education Board to-day took a <lo(iniU> stop in regard to agricultural j instruction, resolving to offer the pusi •«f instructor to ])r .1:1 illgoncloH", now of Lincoln College, at £400 a year, The Board feels safe in undertaking this with the new capitation regulation for the purpose, and severa l locaj bodies promise subsidies. An epidemic of measles is reported in Timaru South. "'The infant rooir of this school escaped when the othei borough schools were affected a fe^a months ago. The Selbie civil action against Shaw (2) and Manchester, involving a collision of carts and motor car, closed to-day in the' Supreme Court' after a four days sitting. Judge iJonniston reserved his decision .