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Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 20038, 20 September 1930, Page 4

The Canterbury Board of Education has given its approval of a proposal from the Department that a number of probationers living away from a University centre, but who are propared to specialise in science subjects, should be allowed to take their training within reach of the University This decision was come to at yesterday's meeting of the Board on the recommendation of the Normal School Committee. A statement was made in the Supreme Court at Hamilton this week by a representative of a; large motor finance corporation that 60 per cent, of the motor-car dealers in New Zealand paid cash for. the cars they purchased. Of the users of the cars, witness estimated thnt 65 per cent, obtained their vehicles under the hirepurchase system, 35 per cent, paying cash. After giving judgment in the Arbitration Court in Duncdin yesterday in a case in which the Court was asked to define tho duties of a chief cook in a restaurant, Mr Justice Frazer remarked: "The members of the Court are agreed that we do not want to have th' 3 Court bothered with cases of this kind, which are purely cases of fact which any Magistrate is as competent to deal with as we are. We are a busy Court. We are so crowded with work that we cannot overtake it, end it is not going to help the Court if we have cases like this brought before us."—Press Association. The exceptionally heavy death rate among returned soldiers was referred to by Mr-E. F. Willcox, secretary of the Christchurch Returned Soldiers' Association, when replying to the tor>«fc of "The Visitors" at Inst night's gathering of Commercial Travellers. At present ex-servicemen were dying at the rate of thrre hundred and sixty a year, and he could see the time coming when there would be only a few "greybeards" within the Association. So long as it was wanted, however, the Association would continue to function. Work has been commenced on the demolition of the portion of the Richmond Working Men's Club fronting on Stanmore roau to allow the thoroughfare to be widened the City Council having-purchased n nine-feet strip for this purpose. The building, which is being wrecked, is of two storeys, in brick, and contains the library, read-' ing-room, committee-room, and bar. Modern lines .will be followed in the erection of the new structure, and the rooms will be considerablv larger. Brick nnd concrete will be tile materials used. Mr G. W. Haines is the architect and Mr W. Williamson tho builder.