MEETINGS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 14854, 4 December 1911, Page 3

MEETINGS.

■i . . ♦ ••+ • (SATURDAY HALF-HOLIDAYi r ASSOCIATION, ; A': MEETING (of .* the > Universal : Saturday) Half-Holiday Association was held on Fi'i-t day evening. Letters were read f from at large number;' of Parliamentary .candidate*} promising, if elected, to support the measure making Saturday; the half-holiday when it comes before the House. Many of the : local candidates are in favour of ; thq '.:. movement.

" GIRLS' FRIENDLY"/ SOCIETY.„ ; The 27th annual meeting of the Girls'', • Friendly Society was held at;, the - Girls* Friendly,SocietyLodge on Thursday, in the presence of a large number, of ladies i and ';',• some of the clergy. The Bishop of Auckland was in the chair. The gross receipts were shown to be £1235 v4s 4d, and the ',; gross expenditure £1216 15s 3d. The special, rent funds showed receipts £188 2s 3d, expenditure £113 18s 2d, leaving a balance) of £74 4s Id. Mrs. Crossley. gave Va n' earnest address, audi Miss Bagnall read -a; \ paper on" Discipline.' » The Bishop; spoke* i at some length on the splendid work of. the Girls' Friendly Society, ■ and urged upon the council the necessity! of starting a fund for a permanent building. ■ It was ' then announced that* an anonymous dorian tioii of four figures had been given as a} nucleus of a permanent building fund,. HEADMASTERS' ASSOCIATION. I The las', meeting of the Headmasters*' : -s Association < for ,1911, took ; place at., th« Normal' School; at 7.45 p.m. on Friday* Mr. H. G. Cousins, M.A., presided over; a good attendance of member*, who as* | sembled to meet the chief inspector in.- dis-t - cussing staffing of schools and other topics, Mr. Cousins congratulated Mr, Lambourne, headmaster, of • Mangere. Bridge school, on his promotion to the position of inspector and wished him success on behalf ' of the , association. A sub-committee reported on\; the inadequacy of the present scale ioE . staffing the ■ schools, and ;■■ made f interesting '.:.?:■ suggestions for improvement. Mr. Mulgan expressed heartiest sympathy with the endeavour to obtain a more ' generous scale) "of staffing in the schools. '■/.: ■ • AUCKLAND . BROTHERHOOD. The Opera House was well filled yoster« day afternoon, when the Rev. George Tre« gear and Mr.?G.; W. Aldridge tdelivered addresses under .the auspices of the Auckland Brotherhood. .The Rev. 'Tregear! dealt very • ably with the condition of af- ■ fairs in West Australia, and prophesied ', a great future for the district as regards ■- wheat-growing. " A Bid for Freedom*' was the title of Mr. Aldiidge*s;addrei-!.