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Evening Post, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 71, 23 March 1912, Page 6

Twelve valuable miinlings for tho Canterbury Socioty of Arts are oxpaciud by the Allicimc, fiuin London, to-day. Among tho contributing tutistfe ere the late Jameb Aumomor, E. E. Briggs, Edgar Bundy, 11. H. La Thaimue. Ainoaby Brown, George Henry, JutimOlssop., Arthur Wftrdle, Cecil Kea., Constance Halford. Noilb M. Lund, and A. F. W. Hnywavd. "I afek," said counsel in a judgment summons case in Eketaliuna on Tuesday, ''that tho Court grant mi adjournment sine dip," The Magistrate agreed t« this, but tho cleru insisted thai a feo would have to bo paid. iJounsol prolt&t«1, but Uic elork argued tlmfc the Audit iJepartinout would com<i on him for the amount if it were not churged up. The Magistrate here took v hand (reports tho Lixprefts), and laid it down that if the Court ajnved upon a certain course Urn Audit Department had to abide by it. if matters of this kott were held up by the Department, they should be reierreil to him by the clerk. A deputation from the executive of the JJoinimon Boy Scout organisation, introduced by Dr. Nownum, M.I 1 ., and compriHinjj Mr. E. 8. Ualdwiu, Provincial Commissioner, and Mr. H. N. M'Leod, JJifctnct Command**, waited upon His Isxeellency tho Governor tins morning, with reference to arrangenicriia to pi carded out during t.bo vkiL of Lieut.General Sir E. 8. S. Baden-PoweU, to • Wellington on tho 29th and 30th May next. His Excellency intimated that Sn> K. S. S. Baden-Powell would bo Ins guest, and that in all probability Lord Islington will be present at the review of Scouts to bo held in Wellington on the afternoon of 30th May. In view of the remark a« to the bookmaker peril, made by the apettkora at the annual meeting of tho Wellington Rugby Union, a Chriatchurch Press reporter this week sought out Mr. R D. Keatoven, a vico-prasklent of tho Canterbury Rugby Union, and asked him if there was an unulagous position in that town. Mr. Keetoven said the local union had a rule on the question of betting at football matches, but it was practically a dead letter. Bookmakers went on the grounds and betted quietly without hindrance. With regard to the question of forbidding all bookmakers on the union's grounds at football matches, he did not boliove in that if the bookmuKurs did not carry on their occupation. Ho had heard rumourß of small sums having been offered to players, but he believed they had been rejected with scorn. At anyrate, tho matter of betting had only to como before tho Canterbury Rugby Union, and ho felt sure the committee would immediately take action, and put He foot down before the evil gained any ground, but so far as ho could see, Hy|j Bad never gained any ground hero. ' p^w Interestingly—and chiefly because l|Jji ' knowledge of free kindergarten work (««. he admitted) was too limited just now— the Principal of the Training College (Mr. J. S. Tcunant) epoke of the openair schools in London. The occasion was the annual meeting of the Richmond Free Kindergarten held last evening. These open-air echools were (eaid Mr. pennant} for medically unfit children. The subjects were selected on the recommendation of a teacher or a doctor, and were taken (in this instance) to an open-air schood on the outskirts of Lon don. Tho pupils were all smal( children, whose ages ran from six to ten years. They arrived by trams or special conveyance at 8 o'clock, and were met by the teacher, and a hot breakfast waa provided for the neglected wait's. Immediately after, tho school adjourned to the garden, where two hours' work, with lessons made as' attractive and interesting as possible, was gono through. Then morning tea in tho chape of hot milk was provided, and the interval until lunch was filled in with playing. Soup, with a little moat, with sweete or pudding to follow, formed a, typical lunch. This function over, tho children were removed to the garden, wrapped in rug«, and placed in chairs, to have an afternoon nap in the open. "I was very doubtful, added the speaker, "about any teachor being ablo ■to order children to go to eleep. But they got into ihe chairs, and the teacher eaid, ' JTour presence may be a disturbing element, but 1 think they will be all oft in five minutes.' As a matter of fact they were all, without a single exception, asleep in seven minutes." (Laughter.) Tho youngsters in this strange school elopt from one to two hours, according to the ago and ailment. When they awoko lessons were vetKtniod, and in tho ovening tho children sent home. An effort liad been mado to make these schools residential, but co far m London this could not ba dono. ltemarkable results wore being. obtained at Uiosb schools, and competition for places was always very keen.