DUNEDIN NOTES.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 13645, 31 January 1910, Page 2

DUNEDIN NOTES.

(special to "the press.") DUNEDIN, January 29

The District High School Committee j have recommended Mr John Robertson. 8.A., first assistant of the Kaikorai School, for the position of Rector or the Lawrence District High School. There were fourteen applicants for the position. Mr Robertson holds a Bl certificate. Sportsmen will be interested to learn in view of the shooting season, that Lake Tatawai, a sheet of water 120 acres in extent in the Mauugatna district, has ceased to be a sanctuary for native and imported game. Last week 850 boxes, approximating 35 tons of frozen fish, were seized and condemned by the district health officers. It was all taken out to sea and dumped, the fish being in a condition un6t for human consumption. Mr H. Norman, sen., Inspector of Publio Works, is to be transferred to Christohurch. This means promotion for Mr Norman, who has seen 31 years' service with the Publio Works Department in Ota go. Detective Hunt, as well as a representative of the insurance companies interested, has been ma.king enquiries into the origin of the fires which destroyed the Wetherstone's school residence and a fish shop. There is an uneasy feeling in some quarters that the fires which have taken place in the district lately are the work of miscreants. Up to the present, no clue has b&en discovered tending to throw any light on the cause of the last two or three outbreaks.