TECHNICAL SCHOOL.

Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 2576, 8 March 1915, Page 2

TECHNICAL SCHOOL.

Anplied art classes, including wood carving, metal work, enamelling, design, and leather embossing commence on Wednesday next, 10th inst. The new instructor, Mr Evelyn Gibson, comes direct: from the art schools of London, when- he has made a special study of this work. The motor class meets at Messrs Yvaekrill and Stewart's garage on Tuesday evening at 7 o'clock. The first aid aud home nursing classes meet on Thursday evening. Those wishing to take up' the electric, wiremen's course meet on AYednosday evening.

The Salvation Army ha s decided to erect a large marquee at the Territorial rami) which opens at Mnrton this week. Brigadier Iloare will be iv charge, with an assistant.

The Feilding Brass Band gave a well-selected programme of music in the Hotunda on Saturday night. The baud was not up to full strength numerically, but the pieces went well throughout, and the large crowd of listeners evidently thoroughly appreciated the bill of fare.

"Here's a bit of paper for you," said a small boy to a class mate at the Kai f i (Gisborne) school, and he handed over what he took to be a piece of paper he had picked up out cf a ditch. "The headmaster happened to be passing at the time, and on an inspection being made of the crumpled piece of paper, it was found to lie a £50 bank note. The note was subsequently restored to tne owner. At the Baptist Church yesterday, the harvest thanksgiving services were a great success, The church was nicely decorated by members of the church, praise being due for work done by Mcsdames Jones and Neilson, Miss Philips, and Messrs -Jones, Tom, Alfred and Alan Fade. There was a good display of fruit, vegetables, grain aud flowers, which were all Freely given. Pastor Nieholls preached inspiring harvest sermons both morning and evening to a good congregation in tlie morning and a wellfilled church at night.

At the. Supreme Court at Palmerston, before His Honour Justice Chapman, Messrs Bett and Bayly, of Palmerston, claimed from the Benson Motor Co., of Feilding, the sum of £1-30. Mr Cooper appeared for the plaintiffs and Mr Ongley for tbe defendants. The claim arose out of a dispute over a second-hand Regal car taken in part payment for a Wolseley car sold by Bett and Bayly to Mr Dernier, of Cheltenham. After hearing the evidence, judgment was given for the defendant witJi costs as per scale, witness-expenses aud disbursements. Contrary lo the expressed opinion of many professed judges, difficulty i s being experienced by Colonel Reakes and his officers in procuring suitable horses for every succeeding draft of reinforcements for the front, and there are still many of the more remote districts' which have not vet been; visited' liv remount buyers. Two rule's are being .observed by tlie buyers with tlie greatest strictness —they will not send away from New Ze.ajliii.id good mares, of whatever age, 'and ihoy are buying no animals less than five' years old., Their experience, ip date'has been s,u,cb that jt doe's not seem at all probabje that cither of these rules may have to b.e broken. The supply of 'suitable horses h not by any means exhausted yet.

A message from .Cairo fp the War Cry says: Tlie Salvation Army made its first public appearance in' Egypt ou Sunday, January 10, 1-91-5, at 7 p.m., at the ftejtoun camp, CaptainChaplain Greene in charge, The Wellington Infantry Regimental Band plave.d a few marches outside the building, and at 7 o'clock our newly? erected 'Hall' was crowded. All the men are very interested in the Army's work 'here, and already a number have offered their services as bandsmen to help in the meetings, aud also to help to make tho Hall neat and comfortable. Writing tablus, pens, paper, envelopes, and magazines are being supplied so that tho men can come in any time to do their correspondence, etc. Reading matter is going to be on the tables, too.