MEETINGS AND SOCIALS.

Press, Volume LIV, Issue 16213, 16 May 1918, Page 5

MEETINGS AND SOCIALS.

WOOLSTdN RED CROSS. I At a meeting of the Woolston Red Cxoas Blanch, held on Monday . evening, Air J. Richardson in tho chair, it was decided to hold a eocial gathering, and to give the procoeds to the British Prisoners o£ War Fund. BURGESSES' ASSOCIATION'. At a meeting of -tho Waimairi and West Brighton Ratepayers'" Burgesses' Association, it was resolved that the members of tho deputation to tho Minister of Education be written -to and thanked for their services. It was agreed to WTite to tho "Waimairi County Council thanking it for carrying out work ..recommended by tho Association. A committee, consisting of Messrs l'olson, West, Henry, Standon, and Barker, was appointed to act in regard to school matters. It was resolved to write to the Now* Brighton Council, urging it to buy a section, at the comer of Tonks and Swaun streets, to givo access to Government road. It was decided to write to the owners of the Bowel Hotel for permission to remove trees. BURWOOD SOCIAL CLUB. In the Burttood Hall on Tuesday a games evening was held by the Social and Literary Club. There was a splendid attendance, about seventy-two persons being present. The prize-winnera were Mrs ,E. P. Hill, Mr T. Ball, "■ and Mr H. Wilkins (booby). Before the close refreshments were handed round, and a danoe held. %

Colonel W. H. Hall, in an article describing the work of the Military College at Duntroon (New South Wales), says: It is. the special glory of this typical Australian institution that it is first and last pre-eminently a uemo cratic venture. It is perhaps too early to say that it has solved all problems. • I knew personally of cases where a bright lad, whose parents had no resources beyond those of the average working couple, but where the promising scholar of an elementary school has been specially hoped by the enthusiasm of his master to prepare, nas secured an entry. Once that is gain- 1 ed v the Government provide him with all things necessary. No loving parent, however wealthy, can indulge his son in pocket money above a sum of five shillings a week. Even this modest amount is subject to a vigilant superMesses, both officers'' and cadets', are, to use the slang of the day, "dry." Pipes and cigars are allowable, but cigarettes are to the adolescent cadet "anathema maranatha." In whatever other > direction' the Defence Department may be open to criticism, it has here laid foundations broad and deep. In such matters one has to take long views. Some results have already been harvested. It may he hoped that as the years go by the yield may be increased a hundredfold.