DOMINION ITEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 23 March 1931, Page 6

DOMINION ITEMS

POSTAL PR OA lO'l ’ I ON. (By Telegraph —Per Press Association) . DUNEDIN, March 19. Mr S. M. II; m isoii, Chief Postmaster at Dunedin, has been promoted to a similar position at Auckland. Mr Harrison will be succeeded bore by Mr J. P. P. Cio listen, at present supervisor ol the ■sLalt division at the General Post Office, Wellington. COOK STRAIT SWIM. MISS gleitze ABANDONS a i tem pt. WELLINGTON, March 20. Although keen to make tin* attempt M i>s Mercedes Gleiitze decided this evening that she would not set out this Season on her proposed Cook Strait swim. M tss Gleit/.e came to the decision alter a final .consultation with V\lr John Tail, of Island Bay. It O likely now that Miss Gleit/.e will *oturn at the beginning of 1933, when the season may be more favourable to the venture. UN EM PLOYED TEACHERS. AUCKLAND, March 21. With 250 ex-students of the Auckland Training College unable to secure permanent posts, the suggestion has been made that tin* Training College should close. Mr Burns, chairman of the Education Board, disagrees, but says that the Department should have restricted entry of the profession this year to twenty-one. It appeared that the Department had over-estimated its requirements. Fewer teachers were resigning now. and some married women whose husbands were unemployed, were also re-entering the profession, and. on their grading marks, they were entitled to a position.