LOCAL AMD GENERAL.

Feilding Star, Volume VI, Issue 1673, 18 December 1911, Page 2

LOCAL AMD GENERAL.

Tho Ulfinaroa and Mara ma. -will probably he within wireless range of Wellington this evening.

Although -tho mushroom season has not yet set in, Mr Robert James forwards us one Oin. in diameter found on his place at Beaeonsfield (Cunningham's).

Entries closo to-day ''' for the N.I.B.A's. tournament in Wellington which begins on the Bth January. Feilding will be represented by one rink.

Tho following were amongst the prize-winners in the art union promoted by the Lova'l Manawatu _oclgo, Palmerston: 2nd, No. 1005, Mr J\ Turnbull, Kimbolton; 4th, No. 1059, Mr R. MeAlpinc, Mangaweka; Gth, No. LSS9, Mr W. P. Murphy, Feild-

Dr. Coward, conductor of the Sheffield Choir, which recently made a tour ol the world, was quietly married _at Shei'lie'd recently to Miss Jemima Alice Dowsnap. His second son was best man. This is the third marriage of Dr. Coward, who has four sons and four daughters. Bowling.

At the Linton school concert on Friday night, Mr William Thomson made pointed reference to the ill-treatment which Mr Sagpooie is alleged to have received at the hands-of the. v, angamii Education Hoard. Mr Stagpoole had the confidence of the peonle of .Linton, and especially of the" parents in. a marked degree. The speaker said if there .was underhanded and sinister intrigue, .against iheir bead teacher, as alleged, it should be. stamped out with a .strong.baud", jt was tlie duty of every, man and woman to stand by Mr Si.agpoole, and tbe methods which were adopted should be exposed not in Linton only, but on the platform of Uaimerstoii North and elsewhere. If this kind oi thing was permitted no teacher would feel safe.. They had a battle to fight lor—justice and fair play—a-id they would tight it out to the last. They would never allow a mau who did his best, who was a, credit to tho district, and who had the confidence of the people to be persecuted in this way. Mr Thomson made a strong appeal to every right-think-ing man and-woman to sunport their headmaster. Mr Stagpoole recently received notice of his retirement as a teacher under the Wanganui Eduea-tH-a Board.