JOTTINGS FROM WANGANUI.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 771, 21 March 1910, Page 8

JOTTINGS FROM WANGANUI.

TOHTJNGA: PASTJ AND HERA. ■ BOTH GAOLED. (Br Telegraph.—Srecial Oorroouondent.) Wanganul, March 20. At a conference of representatives' of ■' school committees in tie WangaJiui .education, .district it. .was .decided, to form an association to:. be ; called the Wangaiiui and West Coast School Com- ■ ■ mittees'- Association. ■ The object of i&e association is to promote and advance . education in the Wanganui district. The executive decided to. reoord aprotest against the reduction of the Gov-, eminent maintenance grairt to Education Boards. . .'! / •' • At a mooting of the OastteoM Tosra Board a letter was read from the Harbour Board promising a subsidy, up to £1000 under certain conditions. It was > decided that tie board take tie' necessary steps to" raise a loan, of £3000 for the formation'of new streets, aaid . the. general improvement of the streets in existence. The. chairman statedthat if' would not be, necessary .to raise a special rate. A letter .was. read' from • the. Minister, for Internal: Affairs.' pro-' posing, to •; postpone the Question, of the; separation jot the district, from 'the ■ Waitotara, county. i . It was' decided to . protest • against. postponement' of tlio matteri ■ " . . . The Maoris,. Paku and his wife Hera, who were convicted of on

Thursday last, were before the Court yesterday morning for, sentence. bation was'refused,: the judge, intimat-: ing that he was', determined to indicate clearly that such-,practices must -be dis- ' continued. As . this was the . first-pro-secution under the Act ho would not impose ; a very severe''sentence. . Haku was sentenced to three months' imprisonment,. and Hera to one month's imprisonment with hard labour, in the Now Plymouth. Gaol.