NELSON NOTES

Dominion, Volume 19, Issue 76, 22 December 1924, Page 10

NELSON NOTES

(From Our Special Correspondent.) Nelson, December 18. The annual distribution of prizes of Nelson colleges took place at the Marsden Church House in the presence of avery large assemblage of pupils and their parents aud friends. Mr. R. P. Hudson, M.P., for Motueka, delivered, the address. AVhen Dodson came forward to receive a prize at the college breaking-up ceremony, the principal or the Bovs’ College (Mr. C. H. Broad) stated that when the inspectors were at the college they asked’ to see Dodson, stating that the lad had. topped the intelligence test for the whole of New Zealand. . ... , The weather remains very unsettled, and summer is long overdue. It is over thirty years since such • a wet twelve months have been experienced, the rainfall to date being just on 51 inches. The yearly average over a period of the last forty years runs out at 37.68 in., the heaviest fall being in 1892, when the total reached 55.45 in. The unseasonable conditions prevailing is rather a unique experience for Nelson people. Harvest operations are in full swing in the Waimeas, and farmers are having an anxious time. The sound instruction given at the Nelson Technical School is well illustrated in the annual exhibition of students’ work, which opened at the Marsden Church Hall this afternoon. Ihe display includes art and art crafts, engineering, woodwork, domestic science, and commercial. Mr. F. AV. 0. Smith, chairman of the board, opened the. exhibition, and an address was also given by Mr. T. E. Maunsell, S.M. The cost of the poll taken on the re-, cent loan proposals amounted to £l2B. A fine of xJ&Lwas imposed on a youth named Kelvin P t uklowski, who pleaded guilty at the Court to-day to shooting a pheasant at Glenhope. Air. Fell, who appeared for the Acclimatisation Society, said the offence was looked’ upon as a veiy serious one in view of the steps being taken by the society to introduce the birds into the district. In giving his decision Mr. Maunsell, S.M., said he would have imposed a heavier fine but for defendant’s youth. > Heavy snow fell on the Mount Arthur range and other high points during last night, and wintry conditions prevailed to-day.