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Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22431, 18 June 1938, Page 14

A proposal that the Education Board should be asked to make regulations under which block voting or plumping would be made informal at the elections of school committees was rejected at the annual meeting of the Auckland School Committees’ Association this week. The suggestion was advanced in a remit from the executive. Mr D. Miller said he opposed the remit, which he regarded as an attack on democratic principles. The secretary of the association, Mr A. T. Dow, said he considered plump voting was wrong and should not be countenanced. The remit was lost on the voices.

Believed to be the only one of its type in New Zealand, a large petrol self-propelling crane was first used on the wharves at Auckland on Thursday. Capable of a lift of two and a half tons, the crane has been imported from England by the Auckland Harbour Board primarily for use on Hobson wharf, now nearing completion. A feature of the crane is that its design allows it to pivot in any direction, circling round its jib. '

What is claimed to be one of the oldest sports bodies in Otago, if not in New Zealand, will this year celebrate its seventy-fifth anniversary. This is the Port Molyneux Caledonian Society, which was founded in 1864 and has been active ever since. This approach of the anniversary was referred to at the annual meeting of the Otago Centre of the New Zealand Athletes, Cyclists’, and Axemen’s Union, at which Mr A. Wylie, a delegate from the Port Molyneux Society, was elected president of the centre. The occasion will be marked next month by a reunion, which will be held, appropriately enough, in a hall which was part of the jetty buildings when Port Molyneux was a thriving port and which stands near the spot—now a rush-covered swamp—where. sporta meeting waadieldt r .'