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New Zealand Mail, Issue 1511, 14 February 1901, Page 17

The Education Board, sitting in com- ■ mittee, after the Board meeting on the 30fch ult;; appointed; Mr Francis Bennett, head .master of the Carterton School, to The vacant he,ad mastership at the Karon School. ' The local committee 5 has 1 since unanimously approved his -selection. The Board,, at the same- ; sitting, increased the salary of the junior clerk (Mr Edward; Hilt;6’n), to £75 per. anhumP ' ,v , f ’ - ' :

/’. - /There; wgS; : a =, crowded meeting last week at ’ tbe. officers of , the City ■ and Suburbap . Co-operative , Building So--./ciety in .'connection witjr ; the first ballot . of the society.;; Tffie ; appropriation of ' ESQ'O fed. to No. * 49. Messrs. Hildreth and ,Hicks acted as scrutineers. Mr-G. /-Luke; (chairman) announced that -as ,there remains a substantial . credit towards a second ballot, the society will proceed , with another appropriation shortly. . . . .

/ At a well, attended meeting of “he. 'Building -Trades Labourers’ Union, Held last week. five.newme-muers were elect-.’ , ed,: .The union.,donated £2 towards a' trophy tor -the building trades picnic' and sports... Arrangements were made for a further conference towards tne amicvable inaiiguratipn of . an industrial agree/inent. Two. officers were appointed to confer. wjtH ? the; officers of a kindi'edf union, with, regard to acquiring a per-; maoient office. ; ■ To women fifiendship, is. rarely a-. very_ 'serious, affair.; indeed, the most charming of'their sex ought never to be taken Seriously.