Personal and General

North Canterbury Gazette, Volume 5, Issue 61, 26 June 1936, Page 4

Personal and General

Mr \Y. Stalker will return to-night from Dunedin, where he has been attending the conference of the South Island Dairy Association. Mr G. Alley, organiser of the Association for Country Education, visited branches in the Rangiora and Kaiapoi districts yesterday. MALE TEACHERS WANTED When the Canterbury Education Board advised the Kaiapoi School Committee this week that it was intended to appoint Miss H. Spillane to the staff, members decided to lodge a protest. No exception! was taken to the appointee, but the committee was of the opinion that a male teacher would be preferable. POULTTRY SHOW ENTRIES Entries for the North Canterbury Poultry, Pigeon, and Canary Club’s annua] show in Rangiora on July 3rd and 4th total 758, a decrease of 47 compared with last year’s figure. In several sections entries show an increase, but there are big decreases in homing pigeons and budgerigars. The open poultry section hag attracted 20 more entries this year than last, hut! the utility classes show a decrease of sixteen. NATIONAL PARTY A meeting of local supporters of the National Party has been convened for Tuesday afternoon in, Rangiora. Similar meetings are being held throughout New Zealand with the aim of reorganising the Party. THE McINTOSH SHIELD Sports clubs will be asked to appoint their own secretary and executive at a meeting of those interested in the control of the Mclntosh Shield competitions which is to be held next week. It was proposed to make a complete reorganisation of arrangements for the inter-borough contests. PROSPECTS FOR YOUNG MEN Opportunities' for two youug men to learn valuable trades from practical experience will be provided by Rangiora Borough Council when the proposed appointments of cadets to the gas and electric departments are made. While the electrical engineering profession is at overcrowding point at present there is a shortage of qualified men in the gas industry, which ' offers opeiflngs both in engineering and chemistry. SHOPS CHANGE HANDS Transfers of businesses have taken place in Rangiora, recently. Mr 1). Kinlev is now occupying the promises previously used by Hawkins Ltd. for their cash grocery department. He intends selling fresh foods. Mr F. Reynolds leaves his fruit shop on Monday to live in Christchurch. Mr R.ossSmith will take the busiiics’s over. The offices of the Department of Labour have been shifted from the N.Z. Farmers’ building to rooms in Victoria St. PRESENTATION TO MR C. RANDS A surprise visit was paid to the home of Mr C. Rands by members of Lite Spriugbank School Committee and a large number of residents and friends on Tuesday evening to express their appreciation of his services to 1 lie district and particularly to the School Committee, of which lie was cliairma.il for more than, nine years. Mr Rands was elected to the Oust School Committee 1G years ago, and was a member until the school was moved. He became a member of the first Spriugbank committee, retaining bis seat on that body until bis retirement at the last election. Items and games were enjoyed, and after supper Mr James Miles (the present chairman of tlie committee) thanked Mr Rands lor his work. Mrs Mil es, the first lady member of the Committee, presented Afr Rands with a barometer set in a 1! a ndsom e 1 v-ca rved frame.