LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 11 March 1927, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A resident of Hawera who was cycling along High street about nine o’clock this morning suffered a fainting lit near the corner of Princes street, and fell from his bicycle. He was carried into the White Hart Hotel and recovered after a short time. W 4 are requested bo state that judgment in the case New Zealand Loun and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd., v. G. C Smith, reported in the “Star” on 9th inst., was taken in error. Later during the sitting of the court the entry was amended on the plaintiff’s application. One of the most remarkable .sights, connected with motor traffic in Wellington was witnessed at ' about 4 o’clock on Tuesday, says lan exchange. This was a. slow-moving procession of cars and taxis three abreast which extended from the De Luxe Theatre to Government House, conveying the guests to the Royal garden party. Such was the demand for taxis that it is .said! that a charge of 30s was being mad© for the 10 minutes run from the city to Gomernment House. “Whatever else goes the primary .schools must be attended to,” said the Minister of Education, the Hon. It. A. Wright, when speaking at Otahuhu yesterday. “There are in New Zealand a number of cases of two teachers instructing different classes in one room, and that is educationally wrong,” the Minister said. “The reason for this lies in the fact that the department has not. been able to provide more .rooms. That position, however, must be met. We must provide the additional accommodation required in the primary schools. Which are the foundation of our education system. Necessities, must come first.”

the opening and dedication of the assembly ban ana main buiianig of tme te .Ante Maori Co Liege at Lukehou, rlawke's Lay, was perrormed yesterday arternoon m tiie presence or a very large, gathering, .ms Excellency tiie Uovdrnor-Geneial periormed the opening ceremony, while the Ven. Archdeacon H. \Y. . Williams, commissary for the Bishop of Waiapu, conducted the dedication service. LLis Excellency also unveiled a portrait of the late Archdeacon Samuel Williams, founder of the college. The new block isi an imposing structure in. brick, finished in white stonework. The lower floor consists of an entrance vestibule and assembly hall, with a. classroom and library on one wing and the principal's room and two administrative offices’ on the other. On the upper floor is the dormitory, six staff .bedrooms, andi the staff sitting room. The whole building is surmounted by a clock tower, within which is a bedroom and cloak room. Commissioner W. S. Short, appointed to inquire into matters connected with the Tauranga harbour, continued the sitting yesterday at Te Puke. H. A. Sharp, solicitor for the Tauranga Borough Council and Chamber of Commerce, in his opening, address, said that the people of TauUanga did not object to tiie erection of a wharf at Mt. Maunganui when trade warranted it, but contended that at the present time there was insufficient trade in sight, and there were no prospects of the •wharf being selfsupporting. On the question of representation, the town of Taurangia, which now had the same representation as Rotorua, felt entitled to another representative, in view of the fact that the harbour was inaccessible to Rotorua until connected by ■rail, and that that district had neither imports nor exports through the harbour, iand was not liable to be rated until the connection by rail was made. The whole .day was occupied in examining witnesses for the borough.