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Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 21 June 1928, Page 9

The Chief Justice, Sir Charles Skerrett, has 1 so far to l>e able to leave Bower Street Hospital for his home- at Lowry Bay. It is his intention to take some months rest before resuming his official duties, states a Press Association message from Wellington. Advice was received recently in Auckland tihiat Dr. David Lips tel n, who had a brilliant scholastic career in the Auckland Grammar School has passed his F.R.G'.S. preliminary examination in London. Dr. Epstein, who is only 24 years of age, was until recently a house surgeon in the Christchurch hospital, but is noav on the staff of the Queen Mary Hospital, London. Dr. Epstein is a nephew of Mr S. Hart, of Hawera. At t-lie Police Court this morning before Mr. E. S. Sage, J.P., a statutory first offender, who did not appear, was fined the amount of his bail 10s, for being intoxicated in Princes Street yesterday afternoon. In November of last, year the Terrace End School Ooinmiittee (Palmerston North) instituted at the school a savings bank system for the children, a scheme which the committee i:si confidently of the opinion lias proved a great success, teaching the principles of thrift and obviating to a great extent the presence of the “lolly,’’ to which the child’s penny is so frequently devoted. The efficacy of the scheme i was strikingly outlined to the members of the icomimiibte© by the; headmaster at Terrace End (Mr.' A. AY. Thompson); who stated that the amount standing to the credit of pupils at the Post- Office Savings Bank at present was £SB Jos 10d., in addition to which the sum of £B4 had been transferred to the individual accounts of 26 pupils. Since the inauguration of the scheme in November last, £92 15s lOd had been banked by the pupils, and members of | the teaching staff had been unanimous in declaring the scheme a good one in every way.