NEWS OF THE DAY

Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 91, 18 April 1932, Page 6

NEWS OF THE DAY

■■. .Saiuttnjf *ha Memorial ;!: 0 ' ; '■'' . ?%®i -oates'. Minister of■ Public Works'' " !&^°!"Tsr; of -:m .dedication of the; Citizens * War; Memorial yesterday -*w™°°A that"Wellington' citizen^ B^dlollpw the example; set-at the .London Cenotaph by uncovering as they passed the memorial found a most sympathetic reception-from.the great body ■of people present.:-By that small' aokMwledgdmeht,. each day,., said Mr. Coates, one.wduld'be reminded of what they owed', to those, who had given their lives for their ;country and the Empire. Lieutenant-Colonel H. E Avery, president of the Wellington Beturned- Soldiers'" Association, supported the. proposal, and said.he hoped that returned soldiers and citizens alike would always pay the' proper respect to the. memorial which was duo to the men. to-whose memory it was dedicated. At the conclusion of the ceremony the returned men, a thousand strong, instituted this suggested daily tribute to the memory of over 1300 Wellington men who fell in the "war. The returned men marched;away via Bowe-n street, and as each section passed the memorial heads were bared, the crowd, massed on the banks of tho grounds of Parliament Buildings, applauding heartily.' Into the Pram. One of those • happenings'more often heard of than seen occurred last Saturday on the Polo Ground, Miramar, in a ;senior A Eugby game "between tho local fifteen and Berhampore. -A largo crowd, including several ladies, had gathered on the side-line; One of these ladies,- doubtless fired, with commendable enthusiasm for the game in progress, had^brought her offspring in its -pram. She had just lifted the child :. out when the boot ot a hefty Miramar forward sent the >ball over the heads of the watchers, and with unerring accuracy into the pram. Had the child not been taken, out of its carriage a moment before a seriojus injury' might have resulted, for the fiiek of the - Miramar man was as willing as it was wild. N.Z.E.I. Criticised.' v _ ■Criticism, of the New Zealand Educational Institute's action in circularising various ■ organisations on matters aris- . ing out of the Economy Committee's report was voiced at the annual moeting_ of the Stratford branch of tho Women's Division, Farmers' Union. "I ' think tho Educational Institute are casting aspersions on the mothers of today," said Mrs. J. C. MeDowall. "They give us a list of things to do and not to do, and, speaking.as a, mother and : as), an ex-teacher, I think wo should object to tho institute's action. They are always raising objections and would . bo doing better wojck if they got behind the Government in this' thne of ■ stress,'? '