CONFERENCE OF EDUCATION BOARDS.

Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 4016, 16 June 1920, Page 2

CONFERENCE OF EDUCATION BOARDS.

For tho first time for many a long day the. Minister of Education is about to take the Education Boards into his confidence, and intends callins; a conference of Chairmen of Education Boards in a, few weeks' time to advise li7m on matters he wants to consult them about. Some folks who are fondly hoping the Hon. C. J. Pair will abolish the Boards and introduce centralisation never made a greater mistake in their lives. A. Press Association message from office of the New Zealand Shipping Co. lias been transferred to Wellington. The board of directors, however> will continue to meet in Christchurch. "A constable is not bound to arrest every drunken man, otherwise the lock-ups woukl not be large enough to hold them" was the opinion expressed by a, police sergeant when giving evidence at the Christchurch Magistrate's Court on Tuesday." School cpiumittee deputations from Sandon and Glen Oroua waited on the Minister of Education at Fox ton yesterday. Sandon wants a new school, and Glen Oroua substantial improvements. Mr Parr gave a sympathetic reply in both cases. The Renown is timed to eater Sydney Heads at V o'clock this morning. Bright weather yesterday enabled hundreds of men working feverishly to complete the decorations and repair the damage caused by the rain. The city is'crowded with visitors, and every precaution, has been taken to restrain the crowd.

.The secret ballot of Gas Company employees favoured the adoption of "extreme measures" to .enforce, their demands for increased wages, by 177 votes to 79. The secretary of the Union has advised the Gas Company of tbe result of tho ballot, and has asked that in view of the Uilipn'e. decision, it nvill give -immediate consideration to the Union's demands. Recently an old man died in Auckland who had passed by a year .or two the allotted span of life of three score years and ten. His life 'had been a very full one, and he left many children and grand-children to mourn his lose, but a very remarkable and almost unprecedented event at the funeral was that his father was over 90 i years of age, was one of tiie chief ; mourners. There are still over 100 German guns accumulating rust in the old Te Aro railway yard iv Wakefield Stroet. The._ late Minfster of Defence (Sir James Allen) called upon local bodies throughout New Zealand to make application for any German "ironmongery" they might require, but apparently thero was no enthusiastic call for captured guns, and they lie huddled together in their faded camouflage, silent testimony to Germany's downfall. The children's display at Melbourne in honour of the Prince of Wales took the form of a living map of Australia, with flic words "Our Prince" in the centre. The lettering was carried out by little girls frocked variously in mauve, blue, pink, green, and orange, with sunbonnets and mittens to match. When the time came for the map and the device to give place to another movement, the tiny ones flew for their lives, looking like (lowers blown along by the wind. During the next week, commencing Thursday, 17th June, Cobbe's are giving a Special Cash Discount of. 2s 6d in the £ to nil purchasers of Furs, Fur Coats, .etc. Eead their replace in to-duv's issue.