FIFTY YEARS AGO

Evening Star, Issue 21931, 18 January 1935, Page 2

FIFTY YEARS AGO

FMM 1 STAR ' FILES The city licensing benches have been amalgamated under the name of the Dunedin licensing district. k * # * Smallpox still causing anxiety in Sydney. Four fresh cases reported. • * * * Laid Derby (Colonial Secretary) is not in favour of annexing Samoa, as proposed by the New Zealand Government. *<•>«« 'The New Zealand Trades and Labour Congress, sitting in Dunedin, passed a resolution in favour of a general eighthour day, to be held as a holiday throughout New Zealand, also that plurality of voting should be abolished and the hours of polling extended. - e • « ■ The plans and specifications for the first section of each end of the North Island Trunk Hailway are in such a forward state that it is expected the Public Works Department will he in a position to invite tenders for their construction early in February. > ♦ ♦ * At a meeting of the High Schools Board of Governors Miss K. C. Bathgate was appointed matron of the girls’ boarding establishment; M iss Florence Gillon was appointed governess of the Girls’ High School; for the position of assistant master at the Boys’ High School Mr John White was selected from thirty-six applicants; and Mr John Wallace was appointed janitor of the Boys’ High School, there being eiglity-six applicants. 1 «* . * « In his opening address at the Liverpool Diocesan Conference, Bishop Hyle said that the frightful tendency to betting and gambling, which seemed to increase yearly, was a painful characteristic of the times. The amount of space devoted in, almost every daily paper to racing and betting was a had sign of the moral condition of the nation. * ■* * » In the match Fnghmd v. Combined Australia, at Melbourne, the F.nglishrnen won by ten wickets. Scores: Australia 270 (Horan 63, J. W. Tremble oil, Jarvis 82) and 126 (Bruce 45). Knglancl 401 (Briggs 121, Shrewsbury 72) and 7 without loss. Barnes, shx for 26 in Australia’s second innings, was the‘most successful bowler in the match.