TELEGRAMS

Hokitika Guardian, 4 January 1921, Page 3

TELEGRAMS

BY TBLEOHAPU—PHKSS ABSX., OOI’YItIOHT. —— 1 GOLF. DUNEDIN, Jan. 4, In the Otago golf championship semifinal, Rutherford (Christchurch) beat Mcßeath (St Clair) -2 up ancr one to play; Wight (St Clair) beat Tosswill (Christchurch) 3 up and two to play, TEACHING PROFESSION. WELLINGTON, Jan. 4. The report of the Committee of the New Zealand Educational Institute, on teachers' certificates, was considered to-day by the Institute Committee, who recommended that in view of the great imnortance of tho teaching profession,

IIII[JUX v/| fry i and work demanded of schools and consequent need for sound scholarship among teachers of the Dominion, we strongly recommeir that in future no candidate be admitted to the teaching profession until he has passed the matriculation examination. An amendment making matriculation optional, was lost on division and the recommendations wero adopted. AN ACCIDENT. GISBORNE, January 4. Spencer Pirie, whilst endeavouring to stop a runaway horse endangering ~ two children, was seriously injured and lies in a critical condition at the hosHp pital. OBITUARY, GISBORNE, January 4. Obituary—A. W. Rees, barrister. For a long time he was a resident of Gisborne, and in his younger days represented Auckland, Hawke’s Bay, and Poverty Bay at football and cricket.