PATRIOTIC SOCIETY.

Feilding Star, Volume XIII, Issue 3279, 29 June 1917, Page 2

PATRIOTIC SOCIETY.

Tho public aro invited lo attend iho annual mooting of the Patriotic Society, to bo held at 8 o'clock to-night in th<> Borough Council Chambers. An opportunity will bo given to criticise the Society on its methods of conserving funds and on any other matters alfecting its conduct and tho business (intrusted to it.

Premier Massoy thinks Parliament sliould_ go right on. There was no necessity for an adjournment.

At. tho Salvation Army this week end a special fierios of meotings- will 1)0 conducted by Brigadier Tomer, assisted by Staff-Captain Wallace, as advertised.

The ninth ballot under tho Military Service Act is completed. Tho names of tho mon who have been drawn will bo published next week, probably on Tuesday.

A special train containing 86 Auckland recruits for Fcatherston Camp passed through Feilding at 6 o'clock this morning. Hitherto Auckland reinforcements havo numbered over 400.

" I think it is a great mistake for parents to take their children away from school when they are 12 years old just bncauso they havo passed the Sixth Standard." —A speaker at tho conference- of technical school directors in Wellington.

A Stratford man writes from Homo that there arc over 2,000,000 men oncninpcd on Salisbury Plain. Many men had been wounded two or three times, and were still being sent back to the firing line.

A man from tho back-blocks, who had been dining freely, was taken in charge by the Christchurch police on Saturday night, and on being searched ho was found to havo £147 in notes and a £10 cheque in his pocket.

A remit by Mr R. Grant (Canterbury) to tho effect that wool-classing be added to tho list of manual subjects for which capitation may beclaimed in connection with rural courses at district high schools, was adopted by the conference of direchigh schools at Wellington yesterday.

Tlio notional headquarters of tho Xew Zealand V.M.C.A. has received news that several of the association's establishments close up to the front in Franco have beon hit by sheila. One marquee and one l\ut wero considerably damaged, but no "very serious castialty" is reported.

The 6 o'clock closing .movement produced a large crop of petitions in tho House yesterday. Member after member presented theso bulky documents praying that tho hours of opening hotel-bars be restricted to between 8 a.m. and G*p.m. Altogether nearly ■10,000 signatures were attached to these petitions.