DOMINION ITEMS

Greymouth Evening Star, 10 December 1940, Page 2

DOMINION ITEMS

[per press association.] BOOKMAKER FINED.' WELLINGTON, December 9. Stephen Higgins, aged 39, a clerk, Was fined £25 on a charge of booktnaking, in the Magistrate s Couit, today. GARAGE ABLAZE. ’" WELLINGTON, December 9. Many motor vehicles and a large quantity of tyres were destroyed when a Taranaki street building, owned by the City Council and occupied by Jamieson’s garage, Nu-Tread, Ltd., and Dominion Rental Cars, Ltd., was destroyed by fire during the lunch hour to-day. It was impossible to salvage the vehicles from the burning garage because the doorway was blocked by cars under repair, and with the front wheels jacked up. The damage is estimated at between £7OOO and £BOOO.

CORRESPONDENCE SCHOOL. WELLINGTON, December 10. The ceremony of the “breaking up” of the Correspondence School was held to-day at the Town Flail, and was broadcast for the benefit of parents and children, only teachers, of course, being present. Mr S. H. Roberts, of Tokomaru Valley, chairman of the Parents’ Association, presided, and both the Minister and Director of Education were present. Mr Mason paid a tribute to the work of the headmaster and staff, and, in his address, made special reference to the building up of New Zealand by the parents of country children. The Minister bore in mind, too, those children who were physically unable to attend school personally, and extended the good wishes of the Government and himself and the school to the pupils and those associated with them, for a happy Christmas and a good New Year. The headmaster, Dr. Butchers, in his report, said that at the end of the second term this year, the enrolment in the primary department totalled 1780, and in the secondary department 1251, an aggregate of 3031. The number enrolled on the ground of physical disability was 317, the number of part-time students was 553, and part-time adult students numbered 495. Other groups comprised 202 junior officers of the P. and s T. Department, and 58 teachers in Grade I and at native schools.