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Northern Advocate, 8 March 1930, Page 10

An interesting ceremony (took place at Ngararatunua yesterday afternoon, When the school swimming baths were officially opened by the chairman of (the committee, Mr J. W. Wakelin. The baths were made possible by funds raised at the school bazaar held some seven months ago, and the energy and enthusiasm of the committee. .The , pool alongside the school has been deepened and widened, and a concrete wall built, so that there is now a beautiful. baith, varying in depth from about 10 feet at the deep end ito as many inches at the other extremity. It will be a valuable asset to the school. Prior to the chairman declaring the. bath open, Pomare Kaire, the senior, boy at the school, expressed the pupils’ appreciation of the interest the committee had always (taken in them.

An interesting ease of legislation bejeoming out of date, has been brought : under notice in Dunedin by .Mr G. W. Carrington, secretary of the Otago Education Board. An election was held last Monday to fill the vacancy on the board. The voting papers, however, cannot be opened for a fortnight. This provision was made in an Act passed over 50 years ago, which still governs the election of, members of the board. The obvious intention of the Act was to allow plenty of time for the voting papers of persons in the remote districts to reach their destination, but the great improvement in the means of communication during the past half-century has made a fortnight an unnecessarily long period of waiting. The conditions set out in the Act must, however, be observed. One of the visiting British farmers, speaking to a reporter at Morrinsville, remarked that after seeifig the advantages New Zealand possessed at a pastoral country they wondered why she wanted to start secondary industries. can make manufactured goods of a better quality and cheaper than you, and Now Zealand farmers can sell their butter in England for loss than we can make it,” they said. “All wo have to do then is to swamp them, and stick to our own natural industries.” They wore interested to hoar that a big section of Ntfw Zealand farmers werff opposed to the fostering of too many secondary industries and the existence of tariffs which increased farming costs.

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