GENERAL NEWS.

Clutha Leader, Volume XLII, Issue 91, 23 May 1916, Page 3

GENERAL NEWS.

Tin' fact that children attending public schools cannot lio legally marki'il as |'ri'-<'ii! if tliev arc over half-an-hour lute ilih-s nut appear to lie general I v kmiuii in parents. Two or three cases '•aiiic liefnie the Wangauui Court last itrek (elates the Herald) where parents were charged with not: having sent their linys to school on certain ilafes. In each instance the hoys were engaged on a milk cart, ami reacheil school about 10 ii clock, li.ij were marked absent, with tin' result that their parents were summoned. The magistrate (Mr VV. Kerr) pointed out that a breach ot' the Act kill been committed, and in each case Hit' parents were lined is and costs. Ip till last week the record clie.st measurement mnoiij; recruits examined liv Dr Delatour at the Wellington Town Hall was held by a Russian, who though mily Oft *[in in height and 12 stone (51b i" weight had an expanded chest nii'Hsnri'tni'iit of -l~" inches—the biggest "tape ' out of over SOU recruits examine!. The record, however, was eclipsed ii 'lay or two ago ny a native of the Isle of Man. wlm has been brought up from boyhood in Canterbury. He was ."iff '"in in height, K! stone in weight, and stretelifd the tape to Hi! inches when liis idlest was expanded. Dr Delatour retcrii'il to this record as "getting the allies hack," though he states that several Russians whom he has examined I'W all splendidly-built men. riic following extract from a letter written mini a hospital in England by a Zealand lad who was wounded by a "omlj and by a shell speaks for itself as lo the spirit of our boys:—"Thev are calling |(i r volunteers among the infancy to join the mounted*, so there must w something doing. You can imagine now tiilgely I am in this hospital when "We are rumours of sending all Anzacs *lio can ride to East Africa. There are #OO horses in Egypt going to waste. « tliey don't pass me because of my pf I will stow awav. J' will refuse to 'Csent l l; ick to New Zealand—not that i would not love to see you all; you "w that, don't you. uncle? But fancy ~ e,,,S aWa . v I't'Oin the Anzacs, the best ■ fo ">ps in the world. you had only K't'Mliii |,„ys lighting: it. was glorious. M t ilrtagine I love lighting. 1 don't. ; , v liwu-t is in mv boots, and I am pravtw tnyself ail the time, and 1 have a rotten imagination. 1 Vieve'r get 'Hmi'ii a way by the excitement; T ani * a . v s thinking. It's when I See the ■Macs lighting and dying as only Ail/.*.-* ~a n th;|| | ' t)|at a jj * lil ' a splendid thing i, is to die with J'" 1 - mi can't imagine. Jt makes . H'art feel all a-ijuiver when I write about it." fj' i» ;i school not 10(1 miles w"'.' ('says an exchange). A tak'"! Vl,t< ' u ' ''l'il'lri'u had been S (i, en as ) u ""hetber certificates be subji ut , e '' tor prizes, so that the money rinf' ■.**' l might be given to the pat-' 3r i ""'ls-. Tll ° rBBU,t vi'ry oni°. -V ' :ivour of patriotic action, •} one litt],. j,j r j recording her vote prizes. The 'teacher, seeking for the tl ,; 0 " 01 'he child's attitude, received I re]dv: "Please, teacher, tell certificate." ; *! '1 '"feting of creditors of a Feildoat;^ Ut< ' bankrupt, under exami- <• . ".'l'Mitted his fondness for the ■.iJufV'T-V i,n ' 1 saill lu> atten,ieil fxrla . >' a, ' c meetings. He ft om tliat a "- v " 10u ey taken ai w „ ' e f" ls iness to go to the races was 5 wit tc j! lrne, l—that was, when he had \y a ' lUI item, a £25 win at the taiita "1" ra< ', e ' ! ' was '|uestioned, the 'W "''"''tting that he withdrew after ", 0U " 1 . '/' ,m "'-'uount shortly jevfei)' 'l! 0 *' 1 ' 11 *, l ' u ' s:ll,U! to pay a j)5 Ss . j r t , jr ; i ring. A resolution was Itwimj a examination of his was desirable,