DOMINION NEWS

Grey River Argus, 22 February 1938, Page 2

DOMINION NEWS

SIZE OF SCHOOL ROOMS. [Per Press Association!. NELSON, February 21. Alarm at the attempts being made to restrict the size of new school classrooms is expressed in a teso ution passed by the executive committee of the Golden Bay-Motueka branch of the New Zealand Educational Institute. The committee excesses whole-hearted support tor the policy of the institute. The move by the Auckland Education Board to restrict the size of classrooms from 26 feet by 24 feet to 24 feet by 21 _• feet is felt to be against the interests ot the children. The Minister tor Education (the Hon. P. Fraser) has been supplied with a copy of the iesolution. TIMARU SEAT. TIjIARU, February 21. The Timaru labour Representation Committee, representative of 3,000 workers, at a (meeting on Saturday night, received . nominations from nine affiliations fori the Labour candidate for the Timaru seat at the General Election. Th£ present member for Timaru, Rev. Clyde Carr, was selected unopposed. Tile selection has yet to be approved by the National Executive. ( PRESS,’ ASSOCIATION. ROTORUA, February 18. The annual jneeting of shareholders of the United, Press Association was held at Rotor ha to-day. The Chairman (Mr. W. Easton), in moving the adoption of the annual report, said that 1,255,878 jzords of cable news had been received from overseas during IS'C He mentioned the large number of important subjects which had been included© in the service. Sir Cecil was re-elected to the

Board of Directors. Sir Henry Horton did not offer himself for re-elec-tion, and his son, Mr. R. D. Horton, was elected in his stead. Messrs A. J. Allport (Timaru), and S. H. Palmer Jones (Wanganui), were elected to succeed Messrs T. M. Geddis and L. C. Young, who retired by rotation. At a subsequent meeting of directors, Sir Cecil Leys was unanimously elected chairman. The retirement of Sir Henry Horton from the Board of Directors was announced, and satisfaction was expressed that a representative of the third generation, in Sir Henry’s son, Mr. R. D. Horton, had been appointed to the Board, in succession to his father.